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The Wire’s Top 10 Science Stories of 2018

The Wire Staff 30/12/2018

The following 10 articles were SciWi's most read in...

solar geoengineering, geoengineering, Kyoto Protocol, greenhouse gases, carbon dioxide, Mount Pinatubo, Indian Institute of Science, CEEW, Environment (Protection) Act 1986, Environmental Impact Assessment, sulphate aerosols, Anthropocene poch, COP24, Katowice, southwest monsoon, northeast monsoon, Department of Science and Technology

Geoengineering: Should India Tread Carefully or Go Full Steam Ahead?

Surat Parvatam 16/12/2018

Solar geoengineering doesn’t help reduce carbon emissions, and is...

Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, Department of Science and Technology, GERD, IISER, IIT-Madras, Indian Institute of Science, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, junior research fellowship, K VijayRaghavan, MHRD, PhD, Prakash Javadekar, Prime Minister’s Research Fellowship, R&D, research grants, research scholars, researchers, senior research fellowship, University Grants Commission

What Does the ‘Statue of Unity’ Have That Scientists and Research Don’t?

Debajyoti Sengupta and Dibya Sankar Das 06/12/2018

In the statue’s aftermath, two students of science hope...

Prime Minister's Research Fellowship, Department of Science and Technology, researchers, GERD, R&D, IIT Madras, Indian Institute of Science, IISER, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, research scholars, PhD, research grants, junior research fellowship, senior research fellowship, MHRD, Prakash Javadekar, University Grants Commission, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, K. VijayRaghavan,

Research Scholars Forced to Leave Labs and Hit the Streets Again for Funds

T.V. Padma 23/11/2018

The Prime Minister's Research Fellowship pays a high stipend...

Vigyan Jyoti’s aim is to arrange for girl students of classes 9, 10 and 11 meet women scientists. Representative image. Credit: mesterjagels/Flickr, CC BY 2.0

A Year Since Launch of Govt Scheme to Get Girls Into Science, What’s Happened?

T.V. Padma 05/09/2018

Some believe that if science leaders and politicians don't...

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India’s First Robotic Telescope Opens Its Eyes to the Universe

Dinesh C. Sharma 03/07/2018

The facility at Hanle is part of a multi-country...

Like all crafts that have presented unique rewards to their practitioners, the hope is that young scientists will use the initial prompt to measure their own research against benefits to society to, in time, enjoy writing about human knowledge for its own sake. Credit: Annie Spratt/Unsplash

Success of New Scheme to Get Scientists to Write More Needs Community Effort

Vasudevan Mukunth 04/06/2018

Laudable as AWSAR's aims are, one of its stipulations...