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Vijaysree Venkatraman has a nice article on Prof. G.N.Ramachandran's work at the University of Madras in the fifties and the sixties: Ho...

Apparently, a serial murderer and rapist was identified by the police when they used a DNA database (called GEDmatch, which appears to be a ...

Avery Thompson in Popular Mechanics : 5 Simple Math Problems No One Can Solve . "Easy to understand, supremely difficult to prove....

Harvard University press release: Cooperation, considered . "New model reveals how motives can affect cooperation". This is based ...

There are just too many bizarre twists in this sequence: James Watson auctioned off his 1962 Nobel Medal; the highest bidder, a Russian mult...

On this the World Elephant Day, you should enjoy this cute overload video shared by Sanjeeta in our Institute's Ecological Students Soc...

Update : Vijaysree Venkatraman's Science Careers article does a good job of placing the PNAS study within the larger context of rece...

On 24 June 2012, Lonesome George -- the last member of his subspecies of giant tortoises of Galapagos island -- died . The last years of hi...

Thank FSM the elections are over! Any guesses on who will head the HRD ministry? And the S&T ministry? * * * In an on-going effort to ...

The long-held but erroneous assumption of never-ending rapid growth in biomedical science has created an unsustainable hypercompetitive syst...

Wildlife photographer, author of Secret Lives , and IISc alumna Natasha Mhatre writes about the hard work that went into the wonderful pott...

In a must read write-up, Debunking Big Pharma's canard against Novartis judgment: Myth and Reality , Prof. Brook K. Baker , Professor of...

Several months back my father noticed black spots in his vision in the right eye. After a thorough check-up at a premier eye hospital in C...

This has to be among the best blog commentaries on open peer reviews of a published article: Another just-so story, this time about fists ...

In an inspired move, IIT Madras website now carries a separate section on their research highlights. This is an idea proposed by Prof. S. ...

... that made a spectacularly wrong assessment. "I believe he has ideas about becoming a scientist; on his present showing this is q...

Rahul Siddharthan's op-ed in The Hindu , The Real Questions from Kudankulam , drew a response from Atul Chokshi, a colleague in our Dep...

Because Arunn started it , and because we were just talking about a deceitful professorial dude wanting to stiff students , I just couldn...

Do you know Jim Knowlton, won the IgNobel'92 for his anatomy poster "Penises of the Animal Kingdom," a portion of which is re...

... The density of equations in an article has a significant negative impact on citation rates, with papers receiving 28% fewer citations ov...