Year: 2019

The auditorium at University of Göttingen today. Credit: Daniel Schwen/Wikimedia, CC BY-SA

How One German City Developed – and Then Lost – Generations of Math Geniuses

David Gunderman 21/01/2019

Anti-Semitism brought down one of the world's greatest centres...

Delhi air pollution, air pollution, Delhi smog, National Clean Air Programme, cap and trade, command and control regulation, paddy stubble burning, emissions trading, acid rain, sulphur dioxide, coal fired power plants, happy seeders, crop diversification, BS VI fuel standard, BS IV fuel standard, scrappage,

Three Out-Of-The-Box Policy Ideas to Clean up India’s Toxic Air

Siddharth Goel 21/01/2019

Market-based solutions instead of command-and-control regulation could allow economic...

FILE PHOTO: A combination photo shows the lunar eclipse from a blood moon (top L) back to full moon (bottom right) in the sky over Frankfurt, Germany, July 27, 2018. Credit: REUTERS/Kai Pfaffenbach/File Photo

Total Lunar Eclipse Set to Wow Star Gazers, Clear Skies Willing

Barbara Goldberg and Steve Gorman 20/01/2019

Although it is a total eclipse, the moon will...

applied mathematics, atomic spectra, classical chaos, ergodic theory, France, harmonic analysis, Henri Poincare, Infosys Prize, Lyapunov exponent, mathematical physics, microlocal analysis, Nalini Anantharaman, pure mathematics, quantum chaos, quantum unique ergodicity, Schrödinger equation, University of Strasbourg, women in math, women in STEM,

Interview: ‘If We Want New Revolutions, We Need New Abstract Concepts as Well’

The Wire Staff 20/01/2019

A conversation with the noted mathematical physicist Nalini Anantharaman...

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Interview | Changing How We Think About the Environment, One Story at a Time

Shruti Sonal 20/01/2019

In conversation with Shubhangi Swarup, author of the critically...

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Health Ministry Delay on NEET Criteria Leaves Disabled Students in a Lurch

Anoo Bhuyan 19/01/2019

With the Medical Council of India and the Union...

The Delhi Development Authority Demonstrates How to Kill a Forest

Sohail Hashmi 19/01/2019

Efforts to systematically clear the reserve forest's undergrowth, install...