Month: March 2019

Bandipur forest fire, Mudumalai sanctuary, tigers, elephants, Wayanad, timber, forest conservation, controlled forest fires, Lantana camara, adivasi, Kattunayakan, grasses, C4 grass,

The Answer to Less Forest Fires Is – Wait for It – More Forest Fires

Tarsh Thekaekara 10/03/2019

The Bandipur-Mudumalai-Wayanad forest fire was the result of a...

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‘Hi, A.I.’: Exploring Our Relationship With Robots

Jochen Kürten 10/03/2019

What are the implications of robots living among humans?...

Balakot air strike, Indian Air Force IAF, Gurney equation, tritonal, fuel air explosives, thermobaric weapon, Mirage 2000, MiG 21 Bison, aviation, ammunition, SPICE 2000, Balakot madrasa, TNT, DRDO, Chapman-Jouget detonation, BLU-109, BLU-116, bunker buster, Line of Control, overpressure, propylene oxide, Planet Labs, high explosives, Mk 84 warhead, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Vijay Gokhale

Boom or Bust: What Science Tells Us About What Went Down in Balakot

Vasudevan Mukunth 10/03/2019

The challenge is to correlate the limited damage visible...

AWSAR, Department of Biotechnology, Department of Science and Technology, IIT-Madras, Jawaharlal Nehru University, National Council for Science and Technology Communication, NCSTC, plagiarism, science communication, science journalism, science writing, solid oxide fuel cells, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research,

Govt Mission to Have Scientists Write About Science Starts on Successful Note

Manal Shakeel 08/03/2019

The hope is to encourage more scientists to communicate...

salary delay, Department of Atomic Energy, TIFR, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Finance Ministry, Arun Jaitley, Piyush Goyal, budget allocation, Union budget 2019, scientific research, Dehradun Declaration, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, self-sufficiency, Science and Engineering Research Board, autonomous bodies, Tata Memorial Centre, Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics,

TIFR Salary Delay Is Tip of the Iceberg of Bigger Crunch at Autonomous Bodies

R. Ramachandran 08/03/2019

While the real funds crunch at TIFR has not...

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Time to Hold Powerful Forestry Agencies and Conservation Actors to Account

Prakash Kashwan and Manasi Karthik 07/03/2019

The FRA's provisions for collective forest rights provide a...

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Missing Objects at the Fringe of the Solar System Are Puzzling Astronomers

David Rothery 07/03/2019

There's a mysterious lack of small bodies beyond Neptune,...