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Cabinet Accepts Amendments to HIV-AIDS Bill

The government approved amendments to bring in legal accountability...

Jean-Pierre Sauvage, J. Fraser Stoddart and Bernard L. Feringa, the winners of the 2016 Nobel Prize for chemistry. Credit: nobelprize.org

Makers of World’s Smallest Machines Win Nobel Prize for Chemistry

The Wire Staff 05/10/2016

These machines are a thousand times smaller than the...

GSAT-18. Credit: ISRO

GSAT-18 Launch Postponed Due to Cross Winds

ISRO's latest communication satellite is now scheduled to be...

David Thouless, Duncan Haldane and Michael Kosterlitz, the winners of the 2016 Nobel Prize for physics. Credit: nobelprize.org

Physics Nobel Goes to Three Scientists for Work on Exotic Forms of Matter

The Wire Staff 04/10/2016

The 2016 Nobel Prize for physics has been awarded...

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Medicine Nobel Prize Awarded to Yoshinori Ohsumi for 1990s Work on Cell Repair

The Wire Staff 03/10/2016

According to the official citation, the award was to...

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Infinite in All Directions: the Fiske Fiasco, Hollywood’s Academic, Quantum Fish

Vasudevan Mukunth 03/10/2016

Infinite in All Directions is The Wire‘s science newsletter....

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Dementia: Catching the Memory Thief

University of Cambridge 02/10/2016

How close are we to having effective treatments –...