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The 2,000-MW Lower Subansiri Hydroelectric Project, nearing completion on the Arunachal Pradesh-Assam border, is the biggest hydel project India has undertaken so far. Photo: Snigdhendu Bhattacharya

The Questionable Rationale Behind India’s Push for Dams in Arunachal Pradesh

Sushmita 20/04/2023

India is currently building as many as six large...

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Air Pollution Leads to Chronic Diseases in All Stages of Person’s Life: Study

The Wire Staff 19/04/2023

Researchers at Imperial College London looked at over 35,000...

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New Research Forces a Rethink of Ape Evolution

Laura M. MacLatchy, Dan Peppe and and Kieran McNulty 19/04/2023

Because the timing of the assembly of Africa’s grassland...

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Opinion: The Truth About ChatGPT’s ‘Hallucination’

Carl T. Bergstrom and C. Brandon Ogbunu 18/04/2023

When AI chatbots flood the world with false facts,...

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Explained: The Juice Mission to Explore Jupiter’s Moons

Carla Bleiker 17/04/2023

According to the European Space Agency, one of the...

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Pseudoscience Cannot Mask the Prejudice of Ex-Judges Opposing Same-Sex Marriage

Sayantan Datta 15/04/2023

Photo: Terence Faircloth/Flickr CC BY NC ND 2.0 Sri...

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Anecdotes From a Lifetime of Interviewing PhD Candidates

D.P. Kasbekar 14/04/2023

No selection process is perfect. Sometimes, deserving candidates are...