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The Wire July 16, 2015 We may all harbour a gene that moves us to explore and find new realms of experience but the physical act of discovery has become far removed from the first principles of physi…
The WireJuly 15, 2015 Once at the centre of the Indian government’s half-baked schemes to make classrooms tech-savvy, the Aakash project wound down quietly in March 2015, an RTI has revealed. The pro…
The Wire July 18, 2015 Particle physics is an obscure subject for most people but everyone sat up and took notice when the Large Hadron Collider discovered the particle named after Peter Higgs in 201…
The WireJuly 14, 2015 In under seven hours, the NASA New Horizons space probe will flyby Pluto at 49,900 km per hour, from a distance of 12,500 km. It’s what the probe set out to do when it was launc…
The Wire July 14, 2015 “When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth” – thus spake Sherlock Holmes. Particle physicists at the Large Hadron Collide…
The Wire July 10, 2015 Bangalore: Indian intelligence agencies and police forces are listed among the customers of an Italian company accused of selling spyware to repressive regimes. Apart from the…
The Wire July 10, 2015 Bangalore: Indian intelligence agencies and police forces are listed among the customers of an Italian company accused of selling spyware to repressive regimes. Apart from the…
The Wire July 7, 2015 Eradicating open defecation has become one of the biggest, and most daunting, challenges faced by the Narendra Modi government. Poor sanitation practices like open defecation ha…
The Wire July 8, 2015 An attempt to make sense of anything in the Solar System cannot happen without first acknowledging the presence, and effects, of the Sun at its centre. And in an effort to expan…
The Wire July 6, 2015 In the last mile of its 3,464-day journey and only ten days away from a historic rendezvous with the dwarf planet Pluto, the New Horizons probe experienced an anomaly on July 4…
The Wire July 4, 2015 New Delhi: Of all the schemes of the previous Manmohan Singh government, the Aadhar UID program is one that Narendra Modi is the most committed to. On July 1, he flagged off a ‘…
The Indian Institute of Planning and Management has finally shut its doors to new admissions. On July 2, a notice appeared on the website of the controversy-riddled school announcing, "All IIPM c…