Month: November 2019

Sambhar Lake, Nawa Lake, avian influenza, avian botulism, Clostridium botulinum, biological oxygen demand, Ramsar site, wetland, saltwater lake, salt manufacturing, groundwater extraction, electrocution, bore wells, Jaipur, H5N8, Rajasthan, crows, avocets, plovers, Indian Wetland Conservation Programme,

Ideas for Cause Pile up but Mystery of Avian Horror at Sambhar Lake Persists

Shruti Jain 19/11/2019

Experts also don't agree with state authorities' idea of...

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Inclusion Is Key to Any Sanitation Goal India Sets

Anju Dwivedi, Bharti and Tripti Singh 19/11/2019

On World Toilet Day, it is crucial to first...

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Arctic Ocean May Be Ice-Free for Part of Year by 2044: Study

Scientists have been attempting to predict the future of...

Indian Institute of Technology, engineering, engineering graduates, university accreditation, National Institutional Ranking Framework, GATE exam, IIT JEE, computer science, programming languages, student protests, b tech,

Engineering Grads Struggle for Jobs Not Because They Don’t Know the Latest Stuff

Dheeraj Sanghi 18/11/2019

With programming as an example, the problem is not...

Big Bang, Big Chill, Big Freeze, Big Rip, quantum tunneling, cosmic microwave background radiation, metric expansion of the universe, cosmic inflation, redshift, Doppler effect, metastable valley, Hubble constant, cosmological constant, Quintessence, dark energy, gravity, general theory of relativity,

Why Won’t the Gravity of Galaxies Keep Our Universe From Expanding?

Ronak Gupta 18/11/2019

About five billion years ago, the universe switched gears...

holozoa, choanoflagellate, ichthyosporea, Cheshire cat, filastereans, multicellular aggregates, transient multicellularity, actin, myosin, contractile actomyosin, fungi, animal kingdom, plants, Charles Darwin, evolution, evolutionary cell biology,

The Search for the First Multicellular Lifeform

Mukund Thattai 18/11/2019

Scientists are interested in the unicellular ancestors of plants,...

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Gurgaon Comes Out to Protest After a Week of Severe Air Pollution

The Wire Staff 18/11/2019

Thousands pledged to do their bit to tackle the...