Immigration cap disaster
The government announced a temporary cap on the number of skilled workers from non-EU states that can enter Britain. The move prompted concern in the scientific community that it would lose access to a...
View ArticleWhen you mess with scientists
With a grim future for its Economy, the leaders went on an austerity drive. They threatened to cut science funding. Scientists community was outraged. The UK produces as much as 10% of global...
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What high schools did for us and what we can do for them
There is much that our high school education gives us. Our time in the school leaves indelible marks on our lives. It makes an impact on our future whether we appreciate it or not. The contribution...
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The missing red line
I chose to do a PhD because I had a dream. A dream that probably every PhD student has when they start – to change the world by doing great science. And for a while I truly believed that I could do...
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Failing again and again
Hugh McLeod never gets it wrong There was some frustration in the undergraduate labs yesterday. A particular experiment has been failing to give the desired product more number of times than we’d like....
View ArticleSparking young minds
Last year I helped organise a science essay writing competition in my high school. This year, with the help of teachers, a similar competition was organised at Rasbihari International School in Nashik...
View ArticleCrowdfunding science: Many a mickle makes a muckle
Necessity, so the proverb has it, is the mother of invention. And science is nothing if not inventive. So, as conventional sources of money get harder to tap (the success rate enjoyed by those applying...
View ArticleThe God of the gaps
One side of the debate over God’s existence focuses on the notion that what science cannot explain today must be the doing of God. Neil deGrasse Tyson neatly explains this God to be “an ever-receding...
View ArticleMarine biology: Flea market
A newly discovered virus may be the most abundant organism on the planet What is the commonest living thing on Earth? Until now, those in the know would probably have answered Pelagibacter ubique, the...
View ArticleIt’s becoming increasingly hard for American women to get abortions
A bill introduced in Republican-controlled Wisconsin to ban abortions 20 weeks after conception is likely to become law in the next few weeks. That would make it the 38th new law across 11 US states...
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