Indian Institute of Science

IISC

IISc to Take Action Against Professor for Sexual Harassment After #MeToo Allegations

The Wire Staff 25/10/2018

The woman had alleged that the professor had made...

post-docs

The Curious Case of the Missing Indian Postdocs

Shambhavi Naik and Megha 09/10/2018

Postdoctoral fellows form the mainstay of research activities in...

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New Challenge to IISc Superconductivity Claim Spotlights Data Anomaly

R. Ramachandran 12/08/2018

A potentially big discovery, close scrutiny by the scientific...

Brian Skinner, gold-silver nanoparticles, Indian Institute of Science, Dev Kumar Thapa, Anshu Pandey, magnetic susceptibility, inductance, resistivity, electrical resistance, nanomaterials,

Did IISc Team Find a Room-Temperature Superconductor? The Devil’s in the Details

R. Ramachandran 06/08/2018

Theorists think the data is "clean". Experimentalists aren't convinced...

The faculty hall at the Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru. Credit: mapbox/Flickr, CC BY 2.0

One Year On, the PM’s Research Fellowship Is off to a Sputtering Start

Kshiti Mishra and Krishna Anujan 08/07/2018

In its first year, the PMRF honoured only 135...

IIT Delhi, IIT Bombay, IIT Madras, Citizenship Act 1955, foreign faculty, university rankings, Institutions of Eminence, Indian Institute of Science, IIT Mandi, IIT Council, Delhi air pollution, tuition fees, rupee inflation, Prior Reference Category countries, Pakistan,

The Shift to Aadhaar-Linked Funds Transfer is Hurting Young Scientists

Virat Markandeya 21/06/2018

Aadhaar-linked direct benefit transfer of scholarships to CSIR and...

Afforestation initiatives in the adjoining wasteland areas of a forest. Credit: Reshma M Ramachandran.

Scientists Report 40% Reduction in Forest Cover, Government Claims Otherwise

T.V. Padma 26/05/2018

The scientific reports are based on a mix of...