The Sciences

Stephen Hawking (left; source: hawking.org.uk) and Amal Kumar Raychaudhuri (source: YouTube)

The Little Known Calcutta Scientist Whose Shoulders Hawking Stood On

Aswin Sekhar 29/03/2018

Amal Kumar Raychaudhuri described the dynamics of light’s motion...

IAEA experts, charged with reviewing Japan’s plans for the Fukushima nuclear facility, leave Unit 4 in 2013. IAEA/Flickr, CC BY 4.0

Seven Years Since the Fukushima Disaster, Is It Case Closed?

Franck Guarnieri, Mines ParisTech 28/03/2018

Calling Fukushima a “made in Japan” disaster focuses attention...

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Explainer: What Is CRISPR and How Does It Work?

Merlin Crossley 04/02/2018

CRISPR harnesses the natural defence mechanisms of some bacteria...

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Would a Rationalist Like Ruchi Ram Sahni Have Survived Today?

Neera Burra 27/01/2018

Teacher, scientist and science educator Ruchi Ram Sahni had...

The Sutlej river in Shimla, 2014. Credit: darshansphotos/Flickr, CC BY 2.0

Study Says Sutlej Had Bigger Role to Play in Indus Civilisation Than Thought

Vasudevan Mukunth 28/11/2017

A new investigation has found that two Harappan sites...

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Celebrating Sharadchandra Shrikhande, the Mathematician Who Disproved Euler

Nithyanand Rao 12/11/2017

Fifty-eight years ago, mathematician Shrikhande, along with his mentor...

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Chemistry Nobel for Microscopes That Can ‘See’ the Atoms of Life

Vasudevan Mukunth 04/10/2017

Jacquet Dubochet, Joachim Frank and Richard Henderson optimised the...