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The contents of this blog post should have come out earlier (in a different form) but better late than never, eh? The Ebola outbreak has been more threatening than ever of going out of control (even a…
The possible presence of plate tectonics on the Jovian moon strengthens the case for a planned NASA probe…
In a paper published in Physical Review Letters on July 17, 2014, a team of American researchers reported the most precisely measured value yet of the mass of the top quark, the heaviest fundamental p…
Once a year, the Nobel Prize in physics triggers a burst of science news coverage in the media, giving some decades-old invention or discovery more than its 15 minutes' due on a channel, paper or…
The technology and digital tools of today are very rarely created, or deployed, keeping in mind the needs of the citizen. In this setting, Ello might be just the anti-Facebook we need.…
After having so vehemently derided the abject unoriginality of the Harry Potter series on many public fora over the years, it is now time for a retraction. It comes on the back of not having re-read t…
My favorite thing about New York city? The subway. The New York city subway system is very decentralized. Its stations are the only front-facing components while its technical infrastructure is obscu…
Special look: India's Mars Orbiter Mission 1. One small step for India may become a big step for humanity "Martin Rees, the British Astronomer Royal, expects that humans will have settlemen…
My Twitter friend and compatriot @zeusisdead made a good, bristling case for why we shouldn't celebrate India's Mars Orbiter mission's frugality. Here's a telling excerpt from his piec…
Even if ISRO has launched a spacecraft to Mars, the payload limit still stands in the way of taking full advantage of scientific interest on the ground. But apparently now isn't the time to think about that...…
If China wants Alibaba to go international, it will find it tough to take refuge behind its current Internet governance policies. Anuj Srivas explains.…
The Americans had the skycrane and their seven minutes of hell. This is India's ultimate so-near-yet-so-far moment. The Mars Orbiter mission better work out.…