Science news on The Hindu website has high readership
Between January 2017 and January 2019, the Science section (excluding health, environment and technology) on The Hindu website got on average 5 lakh readers per month. And even on certain…
Category: Science communication
IIT Delhi start-up’s false claims expose the perils of blind trust
More than two weeks after making false claims on March 8 that Sanfe Period Pain Relief Roll-On, an Ayurveda product claimed to help women with menstrual pain, is FDA-approved and…
Four young scientists win DST’s science writing award
Ashish Srivastava (University of Mumbai), Ajay Kumar (IIT Madras) and Nabanita Chakraborty (Vidyasagar University) among PhD students and Dr. Paulomi Sanghavi from TIFR in the Post-doc category won DST’s maiden…
Talks at the Indian Science Congress need to be vetted by serious committees, says Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
Nobel Laureate Prof. Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, who attended the Indian Science Congress held in Mumbai in 2015 and called it a “circus” as very little science was discussed, is annoyed at…
Indian Science Congress sans drama from 2020?
The Indian Science Congress Association has finally decided to bring some respectability to the Congress by deciding to do precisely what the Nobel Laureate Prof. Venkatraman Ramakrishnan had suggested in…
Funding for science in India has nearly doubled in four years: Ashutosh Sharma
With fewer and fewer research proposals getting approved, delay in the release of funding for approved proposals, and only a fraction of the approved funding being released, science in India…
Science communication: Hey directors, leave the researchers alone!
Even as DST is taking steps to promote science communication, researchers at certain government labs and academic institutions are prevented from communicating even their published work with the media without…
Should science journalists stay away from preprints?
If science journalists can report results discussed at conferences, why should preprints be off-limit, especially if reported responsibly? While peer-reviewed papers published in reputable journals give journalists a degree of…
