Year: 2018

Women take shelter under an umbrella during monsoon showers in New Delhi July 12, 2007. Credit: Reuters/Vijay Mathur

IMD Predicts Normal Rainfall for Monsoon This Year

Sunderarajan Padmanabhan 16/04/2018

If the forecast comes true, it will augur well...

This phenomenon of assuming that “data” in any form is a type of higher truth has been around for some time. Credit: pixabay

The Numbers Game: A New Book Laments the Human Infatuation With Metrics

Quentin Hardy, Undark Magazine 16/04/2018

Tyranny of Metrics is an impassioned essay on the...

Nachiket_Mor

Swadeshi Jagran Manch Bats for Dropping Nachiket Mor From RBI Board

In a letter to the prime minister, SJM co-convenor...

TESS, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, is shown in this conceptual illustration. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center/Handout via Reuters/Files

NASA’s Newest Planet-Hunting Spacecraft Set for Launch in Florida

Joey Roulette 16/04/2018

The Transit Exoplanet Survey Satellite, or TESS, is set...

Jayant Sinha at the India-French Defence & Aerospace Cooperation seminar

India, France Hold Discussions for Inter-Planetary Missions to Mars, Venus

France's space agency, CNES, could provide support to ISRO...

The fight between academia and publishers regarding paywall for academic publications has been around for a long time. Credit: pxhere

French Institutes Cut Ties With Scientific Publishing Powerhouse

The Wire Staff 16/04/2018

Couperin.org, a consortium of French institutes, estimated that the...

Avni tigress, T1 tigress, Maneka Gandhi, National Tiger Conservation Authority, Standard Operating Procedures, private hunters, tranquilisation, man-eater, human-animal conflict, human-wildlife conflict, wildlife warden, tiger ecology, Yavatmal

‘Beloved but Ignored’ Is a Limited View of How Charismatic Species Survive

T.V. Padma 15/04/2018

Some scientists question the validity of this study whose...