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Infinite in All Directions: Joanne’s Emails, Alien Religions, the Effects of Awe

Vasudevan Mukunth 26/09/2016

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

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Should You Eat Food That’s Fallen On The Floor?

Paul Dawson 25/09/2016

An experiment observed that the amount of bacteria transferred...

Is Your Cloth Mask Saving You From Air Pollution?

Richard E. Peltier 24/09/2016

As per WHO, 98% of cities in low- and...

Relatives immerse a body in the river Ganga prior to cremation in Varanasi. Credit: Reuters/Danish Siddiqui

Is Participative Governance the Answer to Cleaning the Ganga?

Gaurav Vivek Bhatnagar 22/09/2016

According to activist Himanshu Thakkar, merely transferring powers within...

The Ig Nobel Prize ceremony in 2006. Paper planes are visible on the stage. Credit: jdlouhy/Flickr, CC BY 2.0

What the Photon is the Ig Nobel Prize?

Sangeetha Balakrishnan 22/09/2016

The Ig Nobel Prizes break stereotypes, telling students that...

The Ptolemaic Geocentric system. Credit: Wikimedia Commons

Opposition to Galileo Was Scientific, Not Just Religious

Christopher Graney 22/09/2016

Anti-Copernicans such as Locher and Brahe show that science...

How We’re Helping The Gaia Mission Map a Billion Stars to Unparalleled Precision

Jon Marchant 21/09/2016

The Gaia catalogue’s incredible precision is only possible due...