Does science have trouble seeing governments?
From ‘Energy megaproject in Chile threatens the world’s largest telescopes’, Science, January 10, 2025: The AES project would occupy several sites totaling 3000 hectares, and the plants making hydrog…
Thirty Meter Telescope
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Science's humankind shield
"Science benefits all of humanity," they say.…
They're trying to build a telescope
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…
Playing the devil's advocate on Starlink
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…
‘World class’ optical telescope – India’s largest – to be activated near Nainital
The instrument is part of a widening foray into observational research in astronomy that India has undertaken since the 1960s, and bolstered with the successful launch of its first multi-wavelength satellite in September 2015.…
Ways of seeing
A lot of the physics of 2015 was about how the ways in which we study the natural world had been improved or were improving.…
Curious Bends – WhatsApp doc, nuclear nonsense, AIDS in Mizoram and more
1. As they amass a bigger nuclear arsenal, both India and Pakistan also attend a non-proliferation conference every year "While most of the momentum behind the humanitarian initiative comes from…