Year: 2019

zika

US Government Changes Travel Advisory to India As Zika Outbreak Contained

In December 2018, the CDC had issued a travel...

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Debris from India’s ASAT Test Could Threaten Space Station, Says NASA Chief

The Wire Staff 02/04/2019

The US space agency describes the Indian test as...

kaveri-delta

Why the Kaveri Delta Is Shrinking, and Farm Productivity With It

K.A. Shaji 02/04/2019

The delta has shrunk by 20% because of diversion...

elephants, Asian elephants, extinction, climate change, charismatic species, habitat fragmentation, water availability, human-animal conflicts, Himalayas, floodplains, land use change,

Asian Elephants May Lose up to Half Their Habitats by Century’s End: Study

Lakshmi Supriya 02/04/2019

Elephants could lose 42% of the total land available...

Gault 6478, Asteroid Gault, PanSTARRS. Hubble space telescope, William Herschel Telescope, La Palma, Tenerife, ESO, Asteroid Terrestrial-Impact Last Alert System, NASA ATLAS, asteroids, near-Earth objects,

Meet Gault the Oddball Asteroid

Prakash Chandra 01/04/2019

In October 2018, sky-watchers saw a dramatic change in...

ISRO-PSLV

ISRO Launches Intelligence Satellite EMISAT, 28 Nano Satellites

In this mission, ISRO scientists will place the satellites...

p-value, asymptotic significance, statistical hypothesis testing, statistical significance, null hypothesis, probability, statistical modelling, Andrew Gelman, American Statistical Association, John Ioannidis, replication crisis, psychology replication crisis, prestigious journals,

Why the Way We Use Statistical Significance Has Created a Crisis in Science

Thomas Manuel 31/03/2019

The case against p-values and statistical significance is not...