The Sciences

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The Curious Case of Lalita Ramakrishnan’s Fellowship With the Royal Society

Aswin Sekhar 15/11/2018

Venkatraman Ramakrishnan was elected president of the Royal Society...

Navakanta Bhat was awarded for his work on the design of novel biosensors based on his research in biochemistry and gaseous sensors that push the performance limits of existing metal-oxide sensors. Credit: InfosysPrize/Twitter

Infosys Prizes 2018 Awarded to Six Researchers, Two From IISc

The annual award includes a gold medal, a citation...

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Climate Records Captured Underground Confirm Indian Landmass Is Warming

Dinesh C. Sharma 13/11/2018

The new study shows a mean warming of 1º...

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How Noise Pollution Is Silencing Whale Songs – and Why That’s a Problem

Lakshmi Supriya 12/11/2018

According to a new study, the mysterious song of...

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The Story of Dust, Through Space and Time

Vasudevan Mukunth 10/11/2018

Unlike our search thus far for extraterrestrial companionship, we...

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Why It Matters That India and the US Teamed up to Measure a Black Hole’s Spin

Jatan Mehta 09/11/2018

The black hole's spin rate also turned out to...

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Earth Has Many Natural Satellites – but How Many Can Be Called ‘Moons’?

Vasudevan Mukunth 09/11/2018

It's not fair to call a dust cloud a...