The Sciences

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Do Writers Care for What Psychology Has to Say About the Curse of Knowledge?

Thomas Manuel 27/06/2018

While the marriage of cognitive science and literature is...

Water drawn from the handpump has a pronounced reddish tinge (left). The water bought from a private seller is much clearer. Credit: Disha Shetty

Thoothukudi’s Villages Are Paying a Price That No One Is Counting

Disha Shetty 27/06/2018

While the government sat back and watched as the...

A table from O’Shaughnessy’s 1841 report. Credit: Report on the investigation of cases of real and supposed poisoning

How Cannabis Jumped from ‘Colonial Science’ to Western Medicine – in Calcutta

Sujaan Mukherjee 26/06/2018

William Brooke O’Shaughnessy’s investigations at a Calcutta hospital into...

Apart from uranium, the wells tested in Gujarat and Rajasthan also contained significant amounts of fluorides and nitrates. Representative image. Credit: Reuters/Amit Dave

Groundwater in Northwest India Has a Uranium Contamination Problem

Lakshmi Supriya 25/06/2018

Unlike the limits for arsenic and other toxic metals...

Men and women working with plants in a lab. Credit: felixioncool/pixabay

Listen: Towards a Better Future for the World, a Better Future for Women

Shruti Muralidhar, Navneet A. Vasistha and Abhishek Chari 25/06/2018

Ramesh Laungani is the driving force behind the ‘1000...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi doing yoga during the International Yoga Day, 2017. Credit: PTI

The Yoga Sutra Is Incompatible With Modern Postural Yoga, and Science

S.K. Arun Murthi 21/06/2018

It is very difficult to reconcile Patanjali’s yoga sutra...

An image in Claude Cohen-Tannoudji's 1994 paper, commemorating the contributions of S. Pancharatnam. Credit: Current Science

Catching a Glimpse of S. Pancharatnam in History’s Precisest Chemical Reaction

Vasudevan Mukunth 21/06/2018

Before his untimely death at the age of 35,...