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India Has to Be its Own Cultural Ambassador, But it Has to Be Scientific About it: Manjul Bhargava

The Wire Staff 19/01/2016

Edited excerpts from a speech delivered by mathematician and...

Albie. Credit: saulotrento/Deviantart, CC BY-SA 3.0

Why This Himachal Officer’s Challenge to Einstein’s Theories Don’t Make Sense

Vasudevan Mukunth 12/01/2016

An indian scientist's disputes with Einstein's mass-energy equivalence betray...

Source: Suvasini Ramaswamy

What a Glass Menagerie in Harvard Tells Us About the Art of Science

Suvasini Ramaswamy 07/01/2016

Beyond offering insights into the history of science and...

Scanning electron micrograph of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA, brown) surrounded by cellular debris. Credit: niaid/Flickr, CC BY 2.0

Antibiotic Resistance is Inevitable But Not Insurmountable

Aswin Sai Narain Seshasayee 04/01/2016

Resistance is here to stay but it needn't be...

We've started taking antibiotics for every little sniffle. Credit: oliverdodd/Flickr, CC BY 2.0

A Human History of Infectious Agents and the Reality of Antimicrobial Resistance

Aswin Sai Narain Seshasayee 26/12/2015

With great confidence and supposed vision, we decided that...

A technician aligns a replacement focal-plane assembly with a powerful three-dimensional microscope at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Centre in Greenbelt, Md. This FPA will be installed on the Near Infrared Camera instrument, the James Webb Space Telescope's principal imager. Credit: NASA/Goddard/Chris Gunn.

Crosstalk: To Boldly Go From Collecting Facts to Making Discoveries

Sunil Laxman 20/12/2015

There are great discoveries to be made where we...

Bacteria-eaters, genetic engineers, disease causers. Credit: Zappys/Flickr, CC BY 2.0

Whether by Stealth or Aggression, Viruses Get to Make a Meal of it

Aswin Sai Narain Seshasayee 04/12/2015

The molecular processes leading to such devastating human diseases...