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The IMPRINT India initiative website has quite a bit of information about its focus domains each of which is subdivided into several sub-th...

In Nautilus , he tries very hard, perhaps too hard, to convince us that people whose research gets scooped would always feel bad -- horribly...

Read first, the earlier post for context. Let us suppose a list has to be made by an academic department with established research progra...

1) An academic department should promote diversity in research (as many topics as its faculty strength). 2) An academic department should pr...

Experimentalist commands , "Emma, please insert NMR data here!" Theorist begs , "Do you have any data that will fit my theor...

Nature reports that a Company offers portable peer review : Author-pays service cuts down on redundant reviews. The concept comes from a co...

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...

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

Research papers, rejected first-time elsewhere, when eventually get published, get cited more than others in that journal. According to th...

My book "Essentials of Heat and Fluid Flow in Porous Media" has been published a few days back by Ane Books (India) and CRC Press ...

The 2012 IgNobel prizes have been announced. Two that deserve my awe are NEUROSCIENCE PRIZE: Craig Bennett, Abigail Baird, Michael Miller,...