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Source: The Economist

Curious Bends – Pichai’s Google, Oceanic River, Mostly Harmless MSG and More

Akshat Rathi & Vasudevan Mukunth 08/06/2015

Curious Bends is a weekly newsletter curated by science...

Organic or inorganic? It depends on where you draw the line. Credit: stawarz/Flickr

How We’ve Let Ourselves Become Anxious about MSG

Vasudevan Mukunth 07/06/2015

Regulatory shortcomings, tunnel vision and the slowly turning wheels...

An air conditioning salesman, one of few happy people in Ahmedabad. Credit: Divyakant Solanki / EPA

Is India’s Heatwave a Freak Event? A Statistician Investigates

Hugo Winter 05/06/2015

Care must be taken with estimating how India's heatwave...

New data set includes more accurate data from the Arctic, where more warming has occurred. Credit: NASA, CC-BY-SA

Improved Data Set Shows No Global Warming ‘Hiatus’

Jay Lawrimore, NCEI 05/06/2015

With the improvements to the land and ocean data...

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In India, You Can Plagiarize and Flourish

Pushkar 05/06/2015

Those with power and influence, like the Vice-chancellors of...

A view of the LHC tunnel. Credit: Wikimedia Commons

LHC Revs Up to Go Where No Collider Has Gone Before

Vasudevan Mukunth 03/06/2015

The Large Hadron Collider, a particle-smasher in Europe, is...

Ammonia revolutionised agriculture. Credit: eutrophication&hypoxia/Flickr, CC BY-SA

Five Chemistry Inventions That Enabled the Modern World

Mark Lorch 02/06/2015

It turns out most people just don’t have a...