The Sciences

In a rush to push out 'research' that reaffirms the beliefs of some of its ministers, including related to cow urine, the government has been undercutting good practices. Credit: paulspace/Flickr, CC BY 2.0

Blinded By Its Cow-Urine Craze, the Government Isn’t Fostering Good Research Practices

Vasudevan Mukunth 04/07/2018

One 'finding' suggests cancer and MDR-TB patients consuming a...

Koko the gorilla in August 2016. Credit: FolsomNatural/Flickr, CC BY 2.0

Did the World’s Most Famous Gorilla Ever ‘Talk’ Like Humans Did?

Janaki Lenin 04/07/2018

The verdict on Koko's ability to communicate is not...

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India’s First Robotic Telescope Opens Its Eyes to the Universe

Dinesh C. Sharma 03/07/2018

The facility at Hanle is part of a multi-country...

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Listen: Deciphering Emotions and Empathy With a Neuropsychologist

Shruti Muralidhar, Navneet A. Vasistha and Abhishek Chari 02/07/2018

Reema Jayakar thinks humans might be one of the...

Doctors performing a surgery at a hospital in Rourkela, Odisha, in 2013. Credit: sswain_1999/Flickr, CC BY 2.0

50 Years Ago: India’s First Heart Transplant in the Time of Nehruvian Science

Kiran Kumbhar 30/06/2018

In 1968, India was still recovering from a debilitating...

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AI Beat Humans at a Complex Game but Is It the Leap Bill Gates Says It Is?

Vasudevan Mukunth 30/06/2018

A 'team' of deep-learning neural networks defeated human semi-pros...

Credit: Arpita Singh and Mayank Chawla

What Makes Manholes So Lethal?

Vasudevan Mukunth 27/06/2018

Without safety equipment, workers inside manholes are exposed to...