Mrs.Lalitha Chandrasekhar Passed Away

Philatelic Tribute to Indian Scientists by Seemin Rubab Innumerable postage stamps have been issued over the years depicting scientist and their contributions and also institutions of excellence they helped set up or that were named after them. All of which the country could be truly proud of. Exciting stories can be woven around many scientific…

  To address the pressing need to improve the ways in which the scientific research output is evaluated by academic institutions, funding agencies etc.., Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA) developed a set of recommendations.   Read More    

Discover is hosting the Comet ISON Photo Contest, together with the National Science Foundation’s Division of Astronomical Sciences, and Astronomy magazine.   The contest is open to amateur and professional photographers worldwide. You can submit images online at www.nsf.gov/comet beginning October 15, 2013, through January 15, 2014. Judges will consider images in three categories; in…

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Did ‘Solar Storms’ Cause India’s Massive Blackout? by HEATHER TIMMONS No, we’re not wearing tinfoil hats over here at India Ink — so-called “solar storms,” or magnetic eruptions on the sun’s surface……  Read More…….

The AAS’ business model focuses primarily on two groups of stakeholders in scholarly research: those who produce research articles and those who consume (read) them in the course of their scientific investigations. We tend to label those groups as “authors” and “librarians”—the librarians being proxies for researchers studying the literature—since those are the customers we…