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Time for India to Consider a Special Track for Space Startup Incubation

Narayan Prasad 20/01/2018

Despite the potential, India’s share of the global $400...

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A Mathematical Researcher is Navigating New India with Number Theories

Nandita Jayaraj 20/01/2018

Kaneenika Sinha studies questions about distribution patterns of special numbers...

Hina Bhat at a conference in Japan in 2014. Source: Author provided

The Lives and Times of Kashmir’s Women Scientists

Majid Maqbool 17/01/2018

According to one scientist, being a woman adds to...

A scuba diver measures the length of Sac Aktun underwater cave system as part of the Gran Acuifero Maya Project near Tulum, in Quintana Roo state, Mexico January 24, 2014. Picture taken January 24, 2014. Credit: Handout via Reuters/ Herbert Mayrl/Courtesy Gran Acuifero Maya Project (GAM)

Explorers Discover World’s Biggest Flooded Cave in Mexico

Reuters 17/01/2018

Shedding new light on the ancient Maya civilisation, the...

The spatial extent of the Indus valley civilisation (~5,300 to 3,300 years before present) is marked by dotted green lines along with the Indus river (brown line). Shading indicates the spatial pattern of June-to-September rainfall rate (mm/day). The Sahiya cave is shown by a black star. Credit: DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.1701296

A Story of Monsoons and the Indus Civilisation, Teased out of Ancient Rock

Sukanya Charuchandra 17/01/2018

Our understanding of what could have motivated the ancient...

Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay. Source: Infosys Science Foundation

Interview: ‘Everyone, Whether a Historian or a Geologist, Should Learn Mathematics’

Sandhya Ramesh 17/01/2018

In conversation with Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay on microRNA, machine learning,...

Illustration of a gamma ray burst in space. Credit: ESO/A. Roquette, CC BY-SA

Simulating the Universe’s Brightest Events in a Lab

Gianluca Sarri 16/01/2018

One idea for the origin of gamma-ray bursts, the...