Ebola: Australia not to send health workers to Africa
In what can be best described as a damp squib, Australia has assured financial aid — $20 million over the
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IMTECH: CSIR scientist used faked data in seven papers
Three papers published in the journal PLOS ONE in 2013 by a group of Indian researchers at the Institute of Microbial
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“Getting funding [for research] is easy in India,” said Dr. Mathai Joseph “because there is no competition here. Money is
Read MoreEditorial: Curiosity can’t kill life on Mars
As if the news on earth weren’t depressing enough, the latest dispatches from Mars are also gloomy. It turns out
Read MoreEditorial: A river ran through Mars
From finding a trail of evidence supporting the presence of water on Mars a few billion years ago, Curiosity’s discovery
Read MoreRounded pebbles on Mars point to water flow
For the first time ever, scientists have been able to collect unequivocal evidence that water had once flowed on Mars
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Radiation risk to astronauts travelling to Mars measured
Measurements made by the Radiation Assessment Detector (RAD) on board Curiosity show that radiation in deep space poses a “significant”
Read MoreEditorial: The next contagion
The influenza A(H7N9) virus, a novel bird flu strain that emerged in China, has infected nine people and already killed
Read MoreOn the Net, a scam of a most scholarly kind
First came the spam emails professing faith in the recipient and requesting the safekeeping of millions of dollars that the
Read MoreArtemisinin-resistant malaria has emerged in western Thailand
Published in The Hind on April 6, 2012 A team of researchers has sequenced the genome of Plasmodium falciparum and
Read MoreEditorial: Making science enjoyable
That little children are gifted with sophisticated thinking capabilities and can solve problems like a hard-wired scientist has been documented
Read More‘Lab-created H5N1 viruses removed natural barriers’
Published in The Hindu on February 2, 2012 In two articles published today (February 2) in Nature, members of the
Read MoreCensorship won’t stop bird flu contagion
Published in The Hindu on January 27, 2015 The United States National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity (NSABB) decision to
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