Year: 2018

Instruments of the ASTROSAT being inspected at the ISRO Satellite Centre. Credit: ISRO

A New Effort to Bring Astronomy and People Closer

Sunderarajan Padmanabhan 29/09/2018

Astronomers have been using Astrosat's instruments to study diverse...

Indonesia: Death Toll Rises to 384 After Tsunami and Earthquake

Indonesia: Death Toll Rises to 384 After Tsunami and Earthquake

Agustinus Beo Da Costa and Fransiska Nangoy 29/09/2018

Indonesia's meteorological and geophysics agency BMKG issued a tsunami warning after the quake, but...

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Tesla’s Elon Musk May Settle With US Regulators, but Ready to Fight Fraud Lawsuit

Jan Wolfe and Michelle Price 29/09/2018

The US Securities and Exchange Commission accused Musk of...

A lecture hall at IIT-Kharagpur. Credit: ambuj/Flickr, CC BY 2.0

Mediocrity in Higher Education Is a Bigger Blow Than India Acknowledges

Pushkar 29/09/2018

For how long can a nation claim to be...

A depiction of the Riemann zeta function in the complex plane. Credit: Wikimedia Commons

Infinite in All Directions: Titanic Storms, IIT-JEE Toppers, Riemann Hypothesis

Vasudevan Mukunth 28/09/2018

The hot news this week from the mathematical physics...

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As Gutkha Stands Banned, Use of Dohra Rises in Uttar Pradesh

Dinesh C. Sharma 28/09/2018

Dohra is a mixture of areca nut, catechu, edible...

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The DNA Detectives Hunting the Causes of Cancer

Kat Arney 27/09/2018

Cancer rates vary wildly across the world, and we...