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Month: December 2014

Curious Bends – counting tigers, curing PTSD, farming in battlefields and more

1. Tracking tigers by keeping an eye out for their stripes “The software ExtractCompare, the first of its […]

December 31, 2014 Science

Possible first signal of dark matter detected

Dark matter is thought to make up more than 80% of the matter in our universe. However, it is […]

December 20, 2014 Science

Curious Bends – where Indians come from, Irrawady dolphins, human spaceflight and more

1. A genetic history: Where do Indians come from? “In 2005, K. Thangaraj and his colleagues at CCMB […]

December 18, 2014 Science

The GSLV Mk-III is no jugaad

Scroll December 18, 2014 (Note: This piece was written in the future-tense and published before ISRO’s successful test […]

December 18, 2014 Science

A voyager on an unknown sea

Early 2012. The Voyager 1 space-probe is millions of kilometres beyond the orbit of the dwarf planet Pluto. […]

December 18, 2014 Science

A new LHC: 10 things to look out for

Through an extraordinary routine, the most powerful machine built by humankind is slowly but surely gearing up for its […]

December 17, 2014 Science
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