The Sciences

Global warming. Credit: Jorge Vasconez/Unsplash

No Mincing Words: India Is Warming Rapidly

Dinesh C. Sharma 16/05/2018

The area of land over which a temperature of...

Winter in Peking University, Beijing. Credit: Wikimedia Commons

If ‘Study in India’ Is to Be a Hit, We Must Get Right What China Has Perfected

Pushkar 15/05/2018

IIT graduates may enjoy a healthy reputation in Silicon...

E.C.G. Sudarshan delivering a lecture in 2011. Source: YouTube

Remembering E.C.G. Sudarshan, a Seminal Theoretical Physicist

Anil Shaji 15/05/2018

A former student of the noted physicist recalls Sudarshan's...

Suicide. Credit: Nicole Mason/Unsplash

The Quest to Understand Why a Tribal Population Is at More Risk for Suicide

Lakshmi Supriya 14/05/2018

A survey found that ~22% of the members of...

Bt cotton. Credit: abhisheksrivastava/Flickr, CC BY 2.0

Explainer: SC Will Not Stay High Court Order in Monsanto v. Nuziveedu Case

T.V. Padma 14/05/2018

If the patent on Bt cotton were removed and...

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Does Someone out There Look Exactly Like You?

Jordan Suchow 14/05/2018

Two people are ‘identical’ in appearance if the average...

Artist’s impression of Proxima b, a planet orbiting the star Proxima Centauri within the closest known star system outside of our solar system. Credit: ESO/M. Kornmesser, CC BY-SA

Can Artificial Intelligence Help Find Alien Intelligence?

Michael P. Oman-Reagan 13/05/2018

To avoid a human-centred point of view in SETI...