Year: 2018

Eucalyptus plant taking root on sand dunes near Lompoul. In an effort to prevent the desert from engulfing fertile land, the Government has undertaken tree-planting projects such as this with help from the UN Environment Programme and the UN Development Programme (UNDP). 1983. Credit: UN, CC BY 2.0

As India Runs out of Water, Its Desertified Land Comes Into View

Rashme Sehgal 21/06/2018

The tipping point of a major ecological crisis is...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi doing yoga during the International Yoga Day, 2017. Credit: PTI

The Yoga Sutra Is Incompatible With Modern Postural Yoga, and Science

S.K. Arun Murthi 21/06/2018

It is very difficult to reconcile Patanjali’s yoga sutra...

An image in Claude Cohen-Tannoudji's 1994 paper, commemorating the contributions of S. Pancharatnam. Credit: Current Science

Catching a Glimpse of S. Pancharatnam in History’s Precisest Chemical Reaction

Vasudevan Mukunth 21/06/2018

Before his untimely death at the age of 35,...

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The Shift to Aadhaar-Linked Funds Transfer is Hurting Young Scientists

Virat Markandeya 21/06/2018

Aadhaar-linked direct benefit transfer of scholarships to CSIR and...

A general view of the lobby area is pictured at the Fortis Memorial Hospital at Gurgaon on the outskirts of New Delhi, India, May 20, 2015. Credit: Reuters/Anindito Mukherjee

Corporate Hospitals in the US Point to the Path India Shouldn’t Be Taking

Jay Desai 21/06/2018

Unfortunately, the Indian healthcare system is following the American...

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India Racing to Apply for Nine Million Courses of Elephantiasis Drugs by July

Anoo Bhuyan 20/06/2018

Nine million courses is all that is left from...

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Why You Should Care About Depersonalisation in Healthcare

Surbhi Shrivastava 20/06/2018

There is a need in healthcare to move from...