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The memories of past catastrophes continue to haunt the idea of nuclear power, including any hopes for a renaissance in a world of worsening climate change.
The COVID-19 lockdown deepened many problems and created others when it restricted the mobility and decision-making power of menstruating individuals.
We have little idea of the species that have disappeared because we would never actually contemplate their existence and what that means for us.
A vote in Niigata will be closely watched as a gauge for the readiness of Japanese voters to re-embrace nuclear energy.
The parasite’s complex biology played a role in the delay, but experts say there was also a lack of urgency and funding.
Since COVID-19 hit, we have engendered fantasies of a sterile environment, confusing dirt and grime with deadly pathogens.
Monkeypox is unlikely to cause another pandemic, but with COVID-19 top of mind, fear of another major outbreak is understandable.
The transplantation of various organs is fairly well-understood – but Narendra Kaushik is poised to enter a scientific, social and ethical quagmire.
Honey bees have been held up for millennia as the prime example of a well-functioning society – a paragon of societal virtues well-worth emulating by humans.
Referrals from PHCs to the next level of care are often agnostic of the circumstances that may make the referral useless. So a few physicians follow a different path.
Solar panels are considered to be ‘green’ when they operate, but at the end of their lives, they become very dirty.
The Dravidian movement has an ideological stake in resisting the ascendancy of the idea of a ‘Vedic supremacy’ – but that can’t get in the way of facts.