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Plastic pollution a water body. Credit: olenalavrova/shutterstock

Q&A: A Plastic Ocean – Can a Movie Help Us See This Invisible Crisis?

Lesley Henderson 08/06/2016

"It’s the images that sell a film, if you...

Credit: Planck/ESA

A Microwave Peek Into Our Stellar Neighbourhood

Vasudevan Mukunth 08/06/2016

There might be a giant gas cloud about 400...

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Watch: In Search Of Snow Leopards, The Elusive ‘Ghost Of The Mountains’

101india 07/06/2016

Incredible, rare footage of the elusive 'ghost of the...

Sir Roger Penrose. Credit: privet/Flickr, CC BY 2.0

Infinite in All Directions – June 6, 2016

Vasudevan Mukunth 06/06/2016

Infinite in All Directions is The Wire's weekly science...

Featured image: A view of the granary and great hall at Harappa. Credit: Muhammad Bin Naveed/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0

What Did the Harappans In? Not a Simple Drought

Vasudevan Mukunth 06/06/2016

Researchers report that the monsoons may not have been...

Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have captured the most comprehensive picture ever assembled of the evolving Universe — and one of the most colourful. The study is called the Ultraviolet Coverage of the Hubble Ultra Deep Field. Caption and credit: hubble_esa/Flickr, CC BY 2.0

A Universe Out of Sight

Vasudevan Mukunth 05/06/2016

We've been able to find that the universe is...

A construction worker in New Delhi Credit Francois Decaillet

The Rising Heat is Sapping India’s Productivity

Soumya Sarkar 04/06/2016

Temperature impacts on worker productivity may be more pronounced...