Year: 2018

Nova Vul 1670 as seen by the Gemini, SMA and APEX instruments. Credit: ESO/T. Kamiński, CC BY-SA 3.0

Found: First Evidence of Radioactive Molecules Outside the Solar System

Mywish Anand 01/10/2018

For many decades, astronomers have been familiar with gamma...

Tasuku Honjo (left) and James P. Allison. Credit: Wikimedia Commons. Credit for the Nobel Prize medallion: robynmack96/Flickr, CC BY 2.0

2018 Medicine Nobel Prize: Who Are James Allison and Tasuku Honjo?

The Wire Staff 01/10/2018

Allison's and Honjo's work focuses on proteins inside our...

A little girl receiving an oral polio vaccine in India in 2011. Credit: cdcglobal/Flickr, CC BY 2.0

Probe Ordered After Contaminated Polio Vaccine Given To Children In Uttar Pradesh

The vaccine was administered as part of the government's...

An illustration of the coconut tree from Hortus Malabaricus, with names in Latin, Malayalam, Arabic and Konkani written in the Nagari script. Credit: K.S. Manilal

A Kerala Botanist’s Affair With an Unlikely 17th Century Book

Akshai Jain 30/09/2018

K.S. Manilal first chanced upon the 'Hortus Malabaricus' in...

Tesla Motors CEO Musk speaks during the National Governors Association Summer Meeting in Providence

Tesla, Musk Pay $40 Million to Settle Tweet Charges, Musk to Resign as Chairman

Michelle Price and Pete Schroeder 30/09/2018

Musk is now required to step down as chairman...

A billet of highly enriched uranium. Credit: Wikimedia Commons

Pakistan’s Nuclear Arsenal May Have Plateaued: Study

Dinesh C. Sharma 29/09/2018

In the absence of any direct information about weapon...

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More Than Half World’s Killer Whales Are Threatened by Leftover Industrial Chemicals

Crispin Halsall 29/09/2018

Polychlorinated biphenyls were phased out three decades ago. But...