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Indigestible: Popular Sustainable Materials Like Areca Leaf Are Rarely Composted

Sribala Subramanian 21/11/2018

Areca palm trees are abundant in peninsular India. Traditionally,...

NASA Kepler, Kepler space telescope, red dwarf stars, exoplanets, NASA Tess, Kepler K2 mission, transit method, radial velocity method, exobiology, Goldilocks zone, habitable zone, SETI, Milky Way galaxy,

Farewell to Kepler, the First Great Planet-Hunter

Prakash Chandra 19/11/2018

Each new discovery Kepler made took us a step...

Circular Electron Positron Collider, International Linear Collider, Higgs boson, Large Hadron Collider, Institute for High Energy Physics, Yifang Wang, Steven Weinberg, Chen-Ning Yang, Standard Model of particle physics, W bosons, Z bosons, Higgs factory, synchrotron radiation, Super Proton-Proton Collider, superconducting magnets, Large Hadron Electron Collider, energy recovery linac, CERN,

China, Japan Prepare to Transform Asia Into Hub of Particle Physics Research

Vasudevan Mukunth 19/11/2018

China has taken an important step towards realising a...

IIT Delhi, IIT Bombay, IIT Madras, Citizenship Act 1955, foreign faculty, university rankings, Institutions of Eminence, Indian Institute of Science, IIT Mandi, IIT Council, Delhi air pollution, tuition fees, rupee inflation, Prior Reference Category countries, Pakistan,

The Many Barriers to Internationalising India’s Higher Education

Pushkar 18/11/2018

For one, the IITs will struggle to offer competitive...

Archibald Cochrane, breast cancer screening, clinical trials, Cochrane Collaboration, conflict of interest, evidence-based medicine, Hilda Bastian, HPV, human papillomavirus, Peter Gøtzsche, pre-cancer, psychiatric medications, randomised controlled trials

Gøtzsche Affair Spotlights Challenges of Producing Good Evidence in Medicine

Kiran Kumbhar 18/11/2018

Peter Gøtzsche is one of the founding members of...

The Kilogram Is Being Redefined – a Physicist Explains

The Kilogram Is Being Redefined – a Physicist Explains

Kevin Pimbblet 16/11/2018

The international prototype kilogram keeps changing weight. This is...

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Ex-Naturopath Wins Award for Standing up for Science. Is the Indian Govt Listening?

Vasudevan Mukunth 15/11/2018

Britt Hermes's winning the 2018 Maddox Prize is a...