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Month: August 2015

Curious Bends – affordable cigs, notes from Fukushima, a destructive bladder craze, and more

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1. Despite rising taxes, cigarettes in India have become more affordable “Over the past few years, the Indian government […]

August 31, 2015 Science

Why the F-91W keeps ticking

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If you’re one of the millennials, you’re expected to not know about the Casiotron almost by definition – […]

August 31, 2015 Science

GSLV D6 is a confidence booster

The GSLV Developmental-flight 6 launch by the Indian Space Research Organisation on August 27 was three things: the […]

August 28, 2015 Science

Roundup of missed stories – August 26, 2015

Too many things to do at work this last week, so much so that I missed writing/blogging on […]

August 26, 2015 Science

Conflicts in the Middle East are bringing down NOx emissions

Two years ago, a study in Science put a detailed analysis behind an idea that had already taken […]

August 26, 2015 Science

GitHub hit by DDoS attack

The collaborative coding platform GitHub became the subject of a DDoS attack on August 25, its second this year […]

August 25, 2015 Tech

Curious Bends – tumour twin, ethical non-vegetarians, fixing Indian science, and more

Apologies for the unplanned summer holiday, but we’re back! 1. Was the tumour inside her brain her twin? (Audio) She […]

August 24, 2015 Uncategorized

Not all waterworlds can host life

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During its formation, Venus was in the Solar System’s habitable zone – much like Earth is now. Scientists […]

August 23, 2015 Science

ACAT in the wild

The software working behind the robotic voice of Stephen Hawking was released for public use on August 18 by […]

August 20, 2015 Tech

A stinky superconductor

The next time you smell a whiff of rot in your morning’s eggs, you might not want to […]

August 19, 2015 Science

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