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Earth Sciences
Extreme rainfall & erosion
IT seems intuitive that the force of an intense rainfall would lead to massive erosion of a riverbed. But that intuition is incorrect according to res
Astronomy
Hubble & Bubble Nebula
TWENTY-SIX years ago, on April 24, 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) was launched into orbit as the first space telescope of its kind. Every year
Life Sciences
Seed time capsule
IN a visionary project of the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF), called “Project Baseline”, a time capsule containing more than five million seed
Climate change
Sea level rise cannot be pumped away
BURNING fossil fuels leads to greenhouse gas emissions that cause global warming. The consequent thermal expansion of ocean water and the melting of g
Material Science
Carbon nanotubes
ONE of the main reasons for limiting the operating lifetime of nuclear reactors is that metals exposed to the strong radiation environment near the re
Awards
Maths prize for Wiles
Sir Andrew Wiles has been awarded the 2016 Abel Prize for “his stunning proof of Fermat’s Last Theorem”, a mathematical problem that remained unsolved
Gravitational waves
A vision vindicated
The LIGO-India project, which has been approved by the Union Cabinet, was a vision of the IndIGO Consortium, a multi-institutional multidisciplinary c
TARUN SOURADEEP
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BALA IYER
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The whisper of a black hole
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Ripples from the past
The first detection of the sounds of the cosmos may be the harbinger of more such signals, which may tell us new things about the universe.
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New cosmic messengers
The gravitational waves detected by the LIGO observatories in the United States on September 14, 2015, while validating Einstein’s theory of general r
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The most powerful supernova?
RIGHT now, astronomers are viewing a ball of hot gas 3.8 billion light years away that is radiating the energy of hundreds of billions of suns. At its
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