Year: 2019

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...

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Ban Lifted on Non-PNG Industries in Delhi, Coal-Based Units in NCR

The Environment Pollution (Prevention and Control) Authority had announced...

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Three New Books on Human Consciousness to Blow Your Mind

Dan Falk 17/11/2019

Can we measure consciousness? Is everything a little bit...

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Aerogel, the World’s Lightest Solid, Can Help Bones Heal Faster

Sruthi Sanjeev Balakrishnan 17/11/2019

New research has developed hybrid aerogels that be used...

women in STEM, women in science, Jocelyn Bell Burnell, Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard, female role models, leaky pipeline, childbearing, boys' club, manel, STI policy, gender-based discrimination, gender bias,

The Long Road to Getting, and Keeping, More Women in Science

Chitra Kannabiran 17/11/2019

The status of women in science has become a...