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Word of the Day: AlogotrophyWord of the Day: Alogotrophy may be one of the rarest words in the English language, yet its meaning feels strikingly relevant to modern li...- A tale of two minorities: Why India never saw anti-Jainism like Europe's anti-semitismA comparison of Jains in India and Jews in Europe explores why one civilisation enabled coexistence while the other descended into exclusio...
- Why Zomato CEO Deepinder Goyal wears a mystery device just besides his eye?Zomato founder Deepinder Goyal is exploring a new idea. He believes gravity might be aging our brains. Goyal has developed a device to meas...
- Jayant Vishnu Narlikar: The great astrophysicist believed it’s essential to have voices who question mainstream dogmaIn 1995, Fred Hoyle honored Jayant Narlikar, acknowledging his significant contributions to astronomy, particularly the Hoyle-Narlikar theo...
- How a talk on 'Garbhavigyan' at IIT Bombay ignited debate over Ayurvedic pseudoscienceAn event on 'the science of begetting a good progeny' at IIT Bombay raised concerns among students. Organized by the Sanskrit Cell, the tal...
- The rational attack on scienceFrom embracing science as a beacon of progress, humanity has grown wary of its potential for control. Exploited by those in power, science,...
- To live in the age of prolonging youthCommerce is driving both our effort to reach the stars and to conquer mortality. Resources are drawing prospectors to other planets. Advanc...
- Modi govt 'hell-bent' on killing scientific research in country, alleges CongressCongress President Mallikarjun Kharge has accused the Modi government of blocking scientific research in India due to a lack of funding. Sc...
- With earthquake, supercyclone & solar eclipse predictions, Chicken Little should turn to scienceCiting an extinction event far in the future could help doomsayers regain credibility.
- ‘Ravana’s airports’, ‘Modi waves’ leave science congress stunnedOn Friday, Andhra University vice-chancellor G Nageswara Rao, a professor of inorganic chemistry, claimed that Kauravas from the Indian myt...
- View: Alarmism over genetically modified foods is unscientific and falseThere are hard scientific facts in favour of GM foods. Yet, activists still take the old alarmist stance.
- Premier Indian science journal warns against fakesKolkata, July 17 (IANS) India's leading inter-disciplinary science journal, Current Science, has raised an alert over a predatory journal c...
- Moving matches out of Maharashtra won't help farmers, GM crops willAgriculture accounts for almost half of all employment but only 14% of GDP. India must move people out of agriculture into industry and ser...
- Virtual reality gives tech scene a new dimensionCool technology: Students and young professionals try to adapt to emerging trends; experts expect new devices to make a splash
- Stopping field trials of GM crops is a pseudo-scientific form of religious frenzyEnvironmental activists have long gained fame and fortune by campaigning against genetically modified foods, which they denounce as “monste...
- Indian Science Congress hopes to revive knowledge in ancient texts"The objective of this event is to have a pure secular and scientific session," said Prakash Javdekar, the Union environment minister, who ...
- God is not a magician, Big Bang theory is real: Pope Francis“When we read about Creation in the Genesis, we run the risk of imagining God was a magician, with a magic wand able to do everything."
- New technologies have led to an explosion of both science and anti-science contentBut type in 'creationism' in Google and you will get over seven million hits as both sides jostle for popularity.
- A short history of delusionThe rise of behaviourism last century rose as a reaction against what mainstream scientists perceived psychology to be till then: a wafflin...
- The American anti-intellectual threatUS must return to the global consensus based on shared science rather than anti-intellectualism. That is the urgent challenge at the heart ...
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