A close shave with the criticism question
Pamela Philipose, the public editor of The Wire, raised an important question towards the end of her latest column:Sudhir Angadi wants to know why The »
Not all retracted papers are fake news – but then, which ones are?
The authors of a 2017 paper about why fake news spreads so fast have asked for it to be retracted because they've discovered a flaw in »
A sudden spike in meteor influx 290 Mya
About 300 million years ago, something happened. And the Moon was hit by meteorites twice to thrice as often after this period than before.The Solar »
An Earth sciences ministry
On January 15, Harsh Vardhan, the Union science and technology minister, mulled renaming India's Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES) as "Bharat Mata Mantralaya". (In Hindi, the »
CERN's next collider looks a bit like China's
The world's largest particle physics laboratory has unveiled its design options for the Large Hadron Collider's successor – what is expected to be a 100-km long next »