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Kinshasa. Credit: Wikimedia Commons

Curious Bends – Kinshasa in Danger, a Chinese Collider Larger than LHC, ISRO’s Booklet and More

Akshat Rathi & Vasudevan Mukunth 07/07/2015

Curious Bends is a weekly newsletter curated by science...

The Kuiper belt is a busy place. Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University APL/SRI/Alex Parker

NASA Mission Brings Pluto into Sharp Focus – but it’s Still Not a Planet

David Rothery 07/07/2015

Pluto was embraced as the solar system’s ninth planet...

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Julian Assange on Google, Surveillance and Predatory Capitalism

John Keane 06/07/2015

“Google pretends it isn’t a company,” says Assange but...

In the New Horizons Mission Operations Center at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland. Credit: NASA

[Updated] Probe Encounters Glitch 10 Days Ahead of Historic Rendezvous With Pluto

Vasudevan Mukunth 06/07/2015

The probe is transmitting telemetry signals that will help...

The DigiLocker website's homepage. Source: Screengrab

Petition Asks Why Aadhar Is a Must to Unlock Modi’s DigiLocker

Vasudevan Mukunth 04/07/2015

DigiLocker provides each user with 10 MB of storage...

The Large Hadron Collider tunnel. Credit: Wikimedia Commons

A New Particle to Break the Standard Model?

Vasudevan Mukunth 02/07/2015

In an underreported development, scientists at the Large Hadron...

Soldiers of the Indian Army during a practice drill. Credit: Wikimedia Commons

Get Wired 30/6: Tawde in Scam, Lack of Bulletproof Vests, Priyanka’s Land Deal, and More

The Wire Staff 30/06/2015

Enforcement Directorate officials sent to Singapore on Lalit Modi’s...