The Sciences

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Review: A Book on Robotics That’s Really About How Evolution Does It Better

Ronak Gupta 12/02/2019

David Hu's is a world of constant wonder that...

Rom Whitaker, snake man of India, noise pollution, light pollution, olfactory pollution, smell pollution, sonar, whale beaching, land use change, biodiversity decline, chemical pollution, air pollution, turtle friendly lighting, olive ridley turtles, mass hatching, climate change, great tits, chaffinches, whale beaching, pilot whale, Cuiver's beaked whales,

Sensing Change: How Sound, Light and Smell Can Affect Plants and Animals

Kartik Shanker 11/02/2019

A complaint by 'snake man' Rom Whitaker last week...

memories

Could Ancestral Memories of Experiences Really Be Inherited?

Pratik Pawar 08/02/2019

In an experiment, roundworms were found inheriting a memory...

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Let’s Discuss the ‘Reward for Publication’ Idea Instead of Trashing It so Fast

Sudhakar Srivastava 07/02/2019

Like any policy, there are bound to be shortcomings...

quantum entanglement, Albert Einstein, Niels Bohr, Erwin Schrödinger, Werner Heisenberg, Wolfgang Pauli, David Bohm, Yakir Aharonov, Anton Zeilinger, double slit experiment, Thomas Young, wave mechanics, Isaac Newton, quantum mechanics, QBism, Sabine Hossenfelder, Anil Ananthaswamy, Through Two Doors book review, Hugh Everett III, Schrodinger's cat, many worlds hypothesis,

Review: The DIY Experiment That Captures ‘All the Mystery of Quantum Physics’

Thomas Manuel 07/02/2019

In 'Through Two Doors At Once', Anil Ananthaswamy doesn’t...

antibiotic resistance, antibiotics, chloramphenicol, Escherichia coli, Gaganyaan, genetic mutations, gram negative bacteria, HARV, Indian Institute of Science, Indian Space Research Organisation, NASA, pathogens, Tiangong,

Beating Antibiotic Resistance Could Be a Bigger Challenge in Space

Surat Parvatam 06/02/2019

Many spaceflight agencies around the world are preparing for...

knapping, Stone Age tools, Australopithecus, Homo erectus, Homo sapiens, Pleistocene epoch, Attirampakkam, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, archaeology, human brain, hand axe, Out of Africa, Stone Age Institute,

Meet the Archaeologists Chiseling Stone Tools to Learn How Our Forebears Did It

Anupama Chandrasekaran 06/02/2019

Stone-tool experiments have revealed that archaic humans came to...