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2010: The Best in Science
December 29, 2010, 4 Comments

(With inputs from Akshat Rathi and Ashutosh Jogalekar) Defining important accomplishments in Science can be tricky. If h ...

The decade of biology?
December 23, 2010, No Comments

The last fifteen years have seen a tremendous growth in telecommunications, particularly the Internet and mobile telepho ...

Open notebook science
December 23, 2010, 2 Comments

Akshat recently blogged about science blogging as a new frontier in communicating science to the public (including both ...

Part II- Assisted Reproductive Techniques
December 9, 2010, No Comments

Second part of an article on Assisted Reproductive Techniques.

Assisted Reproductive Techniques (Part-I)
December 2, 2010, 1 Comment

An introduction to Assisted Reproductive Techniques, which was the subject of the Nobel Prize in Medicine 2010.

Science blogging: the new frontier in science communication
November 25, 2010, 8 Comments

The new tools offered by the internet, which centre on user-supplied content and are often dubbed Web 2.0, are changing ...

The other Salman Khan — educational entrepreneur
November 15, 2010, 3 Comments

Educational entrepreneur Salman Khan has put up 1800+ educational videos on a wide range of academic subjects. Khan is o ...

In defense of rote
November 13, 2010, 7 Comments

Comparing American and Indian education systems can be a tricky endeavor since many cultural and educational specifics i ...

A limitless life
October 28, 2010, 3 Comments

The Indian chemist Chintamani Nagesa Ramachandra Rao (known as C N R Rao) is one of the foremost solid-state and materia ...

Ethics and Indian Science
October 22, 2010, 133 Comments

The story is well-known by now. A graduate student named Heather Ames was doing cancer research at the University of Mic ...