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Kalak Tartar, a Landscape in the Skies

Narendra Patil 04/08/2019

It would be terrible to have the unique lives...

Hubble constant, Cepheid variables, Type Ia supernovae, Edwin Hubble, Georges Lemaître, Henrietta Swain Leavitt, Adam Riess, Hubble parameter, Wendy Freedman, Vesto Slipher,

Why Scientists Are Confused About How Fast the Universe Is Expanding

Sakhee Bhure 03/08/2019

Scientists used three different techniques to calculate the rate...

Prithvi Shaw, beta 2 agonist, Reye's syndrome, BCCI, Yusuf Pathan, Prithvi Shaw, formoterol, salbutamol, salmeterol, Major League Baseball, doping, National Anti-Doping Agency, World Anti-Doping Agency, Andrew Russell, anabolic steroids, BALCO scandal, therapeutic use exemption,

The Curious Case of Terbutaline, the Drug Behind Cricketer Prithvi Shaw’s Ban

Deepak Natarajan 02/08/2019

There is no logic when a cricket player ingests...

People holding placards at a 'March for Science' protest in August 2017. Credit: PTI

Why There Is Going to Be Another ‘March for Science’ This Year

Debajyoti Sengupta and Dibya Sankar Das 02/08/2019

Scientists and students alike are expected to hit the...

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New Tech Helps At-Risk Couples Ensure Their Kids Don’t Inherit Their Illnesses

Sudha Umashanker 01/08/2019

Thanks to technological advances, at-risk couples undergoing IVF can...

University Grants Commission, draft National Policy on Academic Ethics, Principal Scientific Adviser, Government of India, academic ethics, sexual harassment, K VijayRaghavan, plagiarism, research misconduct, research fraud, plagiarism, animal experimentation, predatory publishing, bullying, University Grants Commission,

What Scientists Make of the Govt’s New Draft Ethics Policy for Academics

The Wire Staff 31/07/2019

For some time now, Indian academia has been plagued...

Zia ul Haq, Suparco, Pakistani national space agency, Chandrayaan 2, Tiangong 2, astrology, Jawaharlal Nehru, Rehbar rockets, Hatf missile, Shaheen III missile, Major General Amer Nadeem, Tethyan Copper, long distance learning, online learning, rote-learning, Fawad Chaudhry, pushpak vimana,

When Will Pakistan Get Its Slice of the Moon?

Pervez Hoodbhoy 29/07/2019

Pakistan never had a Nehru. A further setback happened...