Year: 2018

A boy walks through a damaged jetty as pre-monsoon clouds gather above the Vembanad Lake in Kochi, India, May 11, 2018. Credit: Reuters/Sivaram V/Files

A ‘Normal’ Monsoon With Droughts and Floods?

Nidhi Jamwal 03/08/2018

In spite of the seemingly ‘normal’ monsoon scenario in...

Weather - Floods in Assam

Death Toll Reaches 41 as Assam Floods Engulf 8 Districts

According to the Assam Disaster Management Authority, three persons...

The idea is that geology or even cosmology is imprecise because it deals with incompleteness, poor data resolution and lack of experimental control. Credit: skeeze/pixabay

If Earth Were a Novel, Would the Historical Sciences Be Reliable Narrators?

C.P. Rajendran 03/08/2018

Historical methods are crucial in arriving at the proper...

Medal winners Akshay Venkatesh, Peter Scholze, Alessio Figalli and Caucher Birkar. Credit: International Congress of Mathematicians

Fields Medals Announced for Four Mathematicians

The Wire Staff 02/08/2018

The prize, bestowed every four years to mathematicians 40...

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Forest Communities Pay the Price for Conservation in Madagascar

John Cannon 02/08/2018

Local and indigenous communities are the key to forest...

A humpback whale. Credit: werner22brigitte/pixabay

When a Whale Blows Its Snot Out, Scientists Offer It a Drone, Not a Kerchief

Ronak Gupta 02/08/2018

Get past the retch-provoking slimy goo horror and you'll...

World Health Organization workers prepare a centre for vaccination in the port city of Mbandaka

New Ebola Outbreak Declared in DRC a Week After Previous One Was Declared over

Reuters 01/08/2018

Twenty people have died from hemorrhagic fevers in Congo...