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They Kicked Electrons With a Laser This Way. The Electrons Flowed the Other Way.

Sagnik Ghosh 05/09/2019

Physicists set up a simple experiment and stumbled on...

A tract of the Amazon jungle burns as it is cleared by loggers and farmers in Porto Velho

Climate Is Getting More Extreme in Every Possible Way

Coleman Harris 03/09/2019

From precipitation to the carbon cycle to natural disasters,...

Kerala floods, soil degradation, waste recycling, flood, drought, Kuttanad, landslides, quarrying, Madhav Gadgil, Kerala, Idukki, Wayanad, Adivasi,

Kerala’s Floods Remind Us of What Happens When We Abandon Sustainability

C.P. Rajendran 28/08/2019

The understanding of a river as a dynamic, nonlinear...

Laser Interferometer Gravitational wave Observatory, LIGO, aLIGO, LIGO India, black hole, gravitational waves, neutron star, International Centre for Theoretical Sciences, ergosphere, escape velocity, Event Horizon Telescope, proton, EM counterparts, electromagnetic radiation, supernova, kilonova,

Astronomers Excited Over Prospect of Black Hole Feasting on a Neutron Star

Prakash Chandra 24/08/2019

Having confirmed the gravitational signature of such a cataclysmic...

missing heritability problem, gene variants, rare diseases, genome wide association studies, whole genome sequencing, DNA sequencing, body mass index, human body height, polygenic risk score, preprint paper, peer review, genetic variation, heritability,

The Hidden Mutations That Could Help You Evolve Better

Pratik Pawar 20/08/2019

Noted evolutionary biologists like Stephen Jay Gould and others...

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‘Science Needs More Space in Mainstream Media’

P. Anjana 19/08/2019

"It is an irony that while our scientists can...

phytoacoustics, pollen, pollination, evening primrose, bees, vibrations, animal hearing, bioengineering, Tel Aviv University, laser vibrometry, evolution, nectar, caterpillars, evolutionary biology,

Plants Know When a Bee Is Passing by and Produce Sweeter Nectar

Sarah Iqbal 07/08/2019

This happens because, as scientists have shown for the...