Building blocks of life from space
We spend crores of rupees trying to go to the Moon and other planets and bring back rocks. But nature is bountiful, even lugging space debris to our door step free of cost. Read more
We spend crores of rupees trying to go to the Moon and other planets and bring back rocks. But nature is bountiful, even lugging space debris to our door step free of cost. Read more
It’s time to roll out the shortlist of the Nature India Photo Contest 2019. Read more
Say ‘food’ and everyone has a story to share. These stories could be as diverse as ‘I love pasta’ to ‘the cyclone ruined our paddy yield this year’ to ‘half my country is malnourished and the other half obese’. Read more
The pyaavs of Mumbai aren’t just public fountains but a repository of memories, architectural history and an important lesson in water philanthropy. Swapna Joshi, a PhD Student at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Pune, studies them closely to find new meaning in the old. Read more
Its that time of the year when mobile phone screenshots increasingly lend themselves to Facebook posts grimly declaring regional temperatures from across the country — most on the wrong side of 40 and some hovering around 50 in degree celsius. It’s the time for the deadly heatwaves that kill thousands every year, close down schools and offices and, in general, make life miserable for millions. Read more
This week saw another alumnus of the Presidency College, fondly called the Oxford of the East, do India proud by bagging Rockefeller Foundation’s first ever Borlaug Field Award, which has been constituted to recognise young researchers helping farmers and hungry people around the world through science. Earlier this month string theorist Ashoke Sen, another Presidency product, wowed the world when he was named one among the eight scientists worldwide to receive the three million dollar Fundamental Physics Prize in its first edition. Read more
This week a new theory has been proposed on how India and Asia collided, geographically speaking, in the ‘Cenozoic’ era. It suggests that the collision happened in two stages – one about 50 million years ago and the other about 25-20 million years ago to give a final shape to the present day continent. Read more
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