The Sciences

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A Historian’s Notes On How To Talk About Ancient Science – Indian or Not

Aparajith Ramnath 30/01/2017

To reduce the scientific enterprise to a battle for...

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Why We Need Dark Matter – Even Though We Don’t Fully Understand It

Vasudevan Mukunth 20/12/2016

Verlinde has been claiming since the start of the...

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The Seven-Decade Transnational Hunt for the Origins of the Kyasanur Forest Disease

Nithyanand Rao 19/11/2016

Zeroing in on the genesis of this strange disease...

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A Wreath of White Roses Over the Ruins of Mehrangir, Homi Bhabha’s Home

K.S. Parthasarathy 25/06/2016

In June 2016, the National Centre for Performing Arts...

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Crosstalk: Science and Pseudoscience in This ‘Age of Magic’

Sunil Laxman 20/04/2016

There have been many clashes of civilisation over the...

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Too Soon for a Nobel Prize for Gene Editing?

Nandita Jayaraj 04/10/2015

Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier saw a neat bacterial...