15 posts
On September 29, 2021, The Third Eye published an interview with Milind Sohoni, a teacher at the Centre for Technology Alternatives for Rural Areas and at IIT Bombay. (Thanks to @labhopping for bringi…
In a conversation with science journalist Nandita Jayaraj, physicist and Nobel laureate Takaaki Kajita touched on the dismal anti-parallels between the India-based Neutrino Observatory (INO) and the J…
If a telescope like the TMT and a big physics experiment like the INO are being stalled for failing to account for the interests and sensibilities of the people already living at or near their planned…
In the face of complaints about how so few women have been awarded this year’s Swarnajayanti Fellowships in India, some scientists pushed back asking which of the male laureates who had been selected…
For a few days last week, before the mail-in votes had been counted in the US, the contest between Joe Biden and Donald Trump seemed set for a nail-biting finish. In this time a lot of people expresse…
After SpaceX began to launch its Starlink satellite constellation to facilitate global internet coverage, astronomers began complaining that the satellites are likely to interfere with stargazing sche…
The INO's is a great story but stands unfortunately to become a depressing parable at the moment – the biggest bug yet in a spider's web spun of bureaucracy and misinformation.…
"I bet @1amnerd disagrees with this" was how Kapil Subramanian's piece in The Hindu today was pointed out to me on Twitter. Titled 'India must look beyond neutrinos', the piece e…
The Wire May 18, 2015 What should be the priority for science in India? Nature journal published answers from ten scientists in India it had asked this question to on May 13. One of the scientists wa…
The groundbreaking ceremony for the Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory happened on January 10. This means construction on Asia's two biggest neutrino experiments will have started in the sp…
Imagine a vast research facility situated below a hill - fully underground - hosting a massive particle detector made up of the world's largest electromagnet and some 30,000 metal plates. Embracin…
On Monday, the Prime Minister's Office gave the go ahead for the India-based Neutrino Observatory, an underground physics experiment that will study particles called atmospheric neutrinos. The pro…