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Feeling the pulse of the space-time continuum
Humans have known about the force of gravity since ancient times. Yet, we are still exploring its true nature, how it works, and why it works the way it does.
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Ambivalent promises for S&T in the BJP manifesto
There is very little, if any, concrete stuff about promoting science in the country, and a lot of it seems poised to supplant the goals of other ministries.
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The nonsense in Wockhardt's reply to the FDA
As Sun Pharma buys Ranbaxy for $3.2 billion, let's not forget that that these companies, and Wockhardt, came under fire last year for maintaining horrible working conditions in their plants.
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The Indian medical devices industry stays foreign
On the one hand, India plans to expand its public healthcare system to more than 500 million people by 2020, and on the other, doesn't reduce costs of the devices that will form the spine of this system.
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'Poverty first, Mars next' is a non-idea
The government has mismanaged scientific research to the point of the people thinking its only goals are to alleviate poverty.
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An elusive detector for an elusive particle
The delay of a go-ahead from the Cabinet for an indigenously designed neutrino detector is demoralizing for scientists because it could turn investors away.
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Forget me. I'm there.
You don’t have to walk up to stand next to me, you don’t have to hug me. You don’t have to want to kiss me. You just have to look at me in the eye, Stranger, when you walk past. You needn't smile either. You
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Lord of the Rings Day
March 25 is Lord of the Rings Day. Why do I remember the date?
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Our universe, the poor man's accelerator
That cosmic inflation may have happened at a higher-than-anticipated energy means physicists have access to the young universe through astronomical data.
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The Big Bang did bang
The Hindu March 19, 2014 On March 17, the most important day for cosmology in over a decade, the Harvard-Smithsonian Centre for Astrophysics made an announcement that swept even physicists off their feet. Scientists published the first pieces of evidence that a popular but untested theory called cosmic inflation is
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Go slow on the social media
Why whether the social media will inspire direct political mobilization in India is hard to say.
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The stuff we learn after a plane goes missing
(A version of this post, as written by me, first appeared in The Hindu science blog, The Copernican, on March 16, 2014.) It's likely any of you knew many of or all the following, but these are things I became aware of from reading news items and analyses