The Sciences

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Creation of Designer Babies Is Limited by Biology, Not Technology

A Cecile JW Janssens 12/12/2018

Forecasts of designer babies followed the announcement of the...

Hindu Kush mountains, Hindu Kush Himalaya region, Karakoram, Pamir, monsoons, floods, droughts, Kedarnath 2013 floods, heat pump, Himalaya, Karakoram anomaly, climate change, melting glaciers,

How a Warming Himalaya Will Affect the Monsoons

Kabir Agarwal 10/12/2018

"Large mountains heat up so much that – like...

network theory, Albert-László Barabási, betweenness centrality, Google PageRank, physical networks, neurons, integrated circuits, hyphal networks, 3D printing, gel, Cauchy stress tensor, force-directed layouts, weakly interacting regime, strongly interacting regime, elasticity

Why Physical Networks Aren’t Like Their On-Paper Counterparts

Vasudevan Mukunth 10/12/2018

By ignoring the geometric characteristics of links and nodes,...

Kundah hydroelectric project, India-based Neutrino Observatory, Tamil Nadu Electricity Board, Geological Survey of India, Department of Atomic Energy, TANGEDCO, Idukki dam, Mullaperiyar reservoir, rock mass classification, Porthimund reservoir, Avalanche Emerald reservoir, Theni, Nilgiris,

Two Very Similar Projects in Tamil Nadu – but Only One Is Opposed. Why?

V. Balachandran 07/12/2018

The KHEP will generate power. The INO will perform...

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20+ Papers by IIT Dhanbad Profs Retracted Over Duplicate Images

The Wire Staff 07/12/2018

Several other papers by assistant professors Rashmi Madhuri and...

artificial rain, Arvind Kejriwal, atmospheric subsidence, boundary layer, Central Pollution Control Board, cloud-seeding, Delhi air pollution, delhi air quality index, Delhi pollution hazardous, emission standards, IIT-Delhi, Indo-Gangetic plain, ISRO, Kathmandu valley, meteorological conditions, particulate matter, SAFAR, transport layer

Why Delhi’s Plan to Wash Down Its Air Pollution With Rain Just Won’t Work

Udaya Bhaskar Gunturu 07/12/2018

Methods undertaken by the Delhi government to improve air...

Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, Department of Science and Technology, GERD, IISER, IIT-Madras, Indian Institute of Science, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, junior research fellowship, K VijayRaghavan, MHRD, PhD, Prakash Javadekar, Prime Minister’s Research Fellowship, R&D, research grants, research scholars, researchers, senior research fellowship, University Grants Commission

What Does the ‘Statue of Unity’ Have That Scientists and Research Don’t?

Debajyoti Sengupta and Dibya Sankar Das 06/12/2018

In the statue’s aftermath, two students of science hope...