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New Groundwater Rules Raise Hope of End to Industry Freeloading

Gaurav Vivek Bhatnagar 21/11/2015

But activists note that the guidelines fail to stipulate...

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Tibet Faces Grim Scenario with Glaciers on Retreat

K.J.M. Varma 18/11/2015

Beijing: Tibet is facing a grim scenario as its...

The Kali river on the Western Ghats. Credit: Sarangib/pixabay

What Lies Behind Environmental Law Making

Manju Menon and Kanchi Kohli 18/11/2015

There are many unanswered questions about the contents and...

The 2012 IgNobel Prize. Source: UCSB

Listen: Celebrating the Quirky Side of Science

Padmaparna Ghosh and Samanth Subramanian 17/11/2015

For over two decades, the Ig Noble Prize has...

"This illustration shows the positions of 1,000 Swift GRBs on an all-sky map oriented so that the plane of our galaxy, the Milky Way, runs across the centre. Bursts are colour coded by year, and the location of GRB 151027B is shown at lower right. An annual tally of the number of bursts Swift has detected appears below the label for each year. Background: An infrared view from the Two Micron All-Sky Survey." Caption and image credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Centre and 2MASS/J. Carpenter, T. H. Jarrett, and R. Hurt

NASA Telescope Logs the 1,000th Blackhole Birth It’s Spotted

Vasudevan Mukunth 17/11/2015

Since its launch, Swift has significantly contributed to the...

Much like the computer chips that made Gordon Moore famous, the accelerator on a chip could dramatically shrink the size of accelerator technology to benefit society. Credit: SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)

Particle Accelerators May Soon Be Within Reach of the Developing World

Vasudevan Mukunth 15/11/2015

In the last decade, tabletop accelerators have inched closer...

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Fighting Over Fatigue: Will This Chronic Syndrome Ever Be Taken Seriously?

Virginia Gewin 14/11/2015

Fewer disease areas are so ripe for big breakthroughs...