Curious Bends

Pizza slices, Raman effect, Indo-Pak floods and more

Vandana Shiva, antibiotics in chicken, asteroid hunters and more

Indian Luddites, an academic career, the great forgetting and more

Math puzzle winner, worm sperms, banning nuclear weapons and more

1. Why the GM debate in India won’t abate

Hearing tests, radiation-resistant cells, sign language and more

1. Pesticides may be to blame for some cancers among India’s farmers

1. The puzzle of Delhi’s air pollution Delhi has the world’s worst ambient air quality.

1. To prescribe or not to prescribe There is a saying in Tamil that goes “if your family can’t discipline you, the world will”.

1. India’s poor risk their health to mine electronic waste The UN estimated in 2012 that, for the first time, developing countries were…

1. World Food Prize goes to Sanjaya Rajaram “The 71-year-old veteran plant scientist has been declared the winner of the $250,000 World…

1. Was the zero really reinvented in India? The academic and scientific environment in India leaves a lot to be desired.

1. Two-thirds of the world’s mobile phones are dumb phones.

1. In a quiet corner in India trains are being slowed down as the population of Asiatic lions grows The population of Asiatic lions in…

1. Found: the first metal-plated syringe in a living creature On a fig tree in the beautiful campus of the Indian Institute of Science…

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