ASTROSAT spots Crab Nebula, the brightest X-ray source
Published in The Hindu on October 18, 2015 On October 9, ASTROSAT, the first Indian space observatory, spotted the Crab Nebula using the Cadmium Zinc Telluride Imager (CZTI) instrument. The…
ASTROSAT, India’s unique space observatory
Published in The Hindu on September 27, 2015 The launch of Indian Space Research Organisation’s (ISRO) ASTROSAT telescope today (September 28) will be a shot in the arm for astronomers,…
Two objects fused to form Rosetta’s 67P comet
Published in The Hindu on October 4, 2015 The rubber-duck shaped comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko (67P) made up of a larger lobe and a smaller lobe separated by a thin ‘neck’ region…
Fake journal publishing flourishes in India
A scam of the most scholarly kind on the Internet — publishing “scientific papers” in fake open access journals (also called as predatory journals) — has become more insidious and…
‘There is an absence of political will to give primacy to health’
India has to not only increase resources for healthcare but also radically transform the architecture of the country’s healthcare delivery system, if the nation is to achieve the government’s vision…
Rainwater harvesting from roads
The Chennai Corporation has taken the initiative to put in place the structures to harvest rain falling on certain roads. One can see these structures in certain roads in Besant Nagar, Chennai. The Southwest monsoon…
Search for AIDS vaccine continues even as Luc Montagnier wins the Nobel Prize for Medicine
Dr. V.D. Ramanathan, Senior Deputy Director at TRC, Chennai and the Principal Investigator of the Phase I AIDS vaccine trial conducted at TRC The search for AIDS vaccine…
Mosquito net is the best way to keep malaria at bay
What a shame that millions are afflicted by malaria when all that is required is the use of a mosquito net to keep the bloody insects at bay. Nobody…
