Can virtual reality be used to stop domestic violence? France wants to find out

The technology attempts to prompt empathy in users by showing them the perspective of the victim, the child bystander and the perpetrator of the violence.

Stuart M Bender, The Conversation

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Mick Broderick, The Conversation

· Yesterday · 11:30 pm

With a new telescope, humans will soon get to look back in time at the Dark Ages of the universe

The most powerful space telescope ever built, Nasa’s James Webb Space Telescope, is set to usher in the next era of astronomy.

Chris Impey, The Conversation

· Yesterday · 07:30 pm

Hate speech to data misuse to press harassment: Five weekend reads on India’s ‘blind eye’ state

Must-read pieces – and twitter threads – for your weekend.

Rohan Venkataramakrishnan

· Oct 17, 2021 · 09:30 am

Yes, Ivermectin is a Nobel Prize-winning wonder drug. No, it is not meant to save lives from Covid

Many organisations with dubious intentions have continued to promote the unsubstantiated use of the medicine against the pandemic.

Jeffrey R Aeschlimann, The Conversation

· Oct 16, 2021 · 09:30 pm

It isn’t just the Income Tax site – government has a history of teething trouble with tech rollouts

Here’s how India can tackle the systemic flaws in its software development process.

Hemant Adarkar

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Meenaz Munshi

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Anushka Bhansali

· Oct 16, 2021 · 09:00 am

World’s demand for electricity can be met with solar panels on half the roofs

Researchers have highlighted Asia, Europe and North America as three potential hotspots for energy generation.

Siddharth Joshi, The Conversation

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James Glynn, The Conversation

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Shivika Mittal, The Conversation

· Oct 15, 2021 · 11:30 pm

How moths use decoys to dodge bat attacks

Research shows the insect has developed a unique defensive techniques such as ultrasound hearing, jamming the bat’s sonar and acoustic camouflage.

Marc Holderied, The Conversation

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Thomas R Neil, The Conversation

· Oct 12, 2021 · 11:30 pm

How Indian families can reduce their risk of heart disease, according to a new study

A programme to encourage households with a cardiac disease history to change their behaviour could be more effective than annual screening and counselling.

Vandita Awasthi, IndiaSpend.com

· Oct 09, 2021 · 07:30 pm

The most influential climate science paper of all time that won a Nobel prize in physics

Syukuro Manabe’s work goes down in history as the first robust estimate of how much the world would warm if carbon dioxide concentrations double.

Piers Forster, The Conversation

· Oct 08, 2021 · 11:30 pm

BepiColombo’s photos of Mercury may help unlock some of the planet’s secrets

Once in orbit, the spacecraft’s advanced payload of scientific instruments will help us understand how the planet was formed and what it is made of.

David Rothery, The Conversation

· Oct 07, 2021 · 11:30 pm

My PhD supervisor just won the Nobel prize in physics. Here’s how his research changed science

The prize for Giorgio Parisi, Syukuro Manabe and Klaus Hasselmann is an amazing recognition of an entire research area of complex systems in physics.

Paolo Barucca, The Conversation

· Oct 06, 2021 · 11:30 pm

Why the return of wolves to an Indian grassland is a bittersweet story

Grasslands could be crucial to helping India combat climate change. But without clear conservation policies, they can also be sites of human-animal conflict.

Ishan Kukreti

· Oct 06, 2021 · 06:30 am