Guest Editorial
Joy of discovery as a reason for pursuing a career in science
B. Ananthanarayan
The Nobel laureate Serge Haroche while visiting India in January 2017 has been quoted as saying ‘Since they receive taxpayer’s money, the scientists can’t live in an ivory...
Correspondence
- Indian zoos can contribute towards ornithological research in novel ways — Sharma, Bharat B.; Banerjee, Basu D.; Urfi, Abdul J. ; Full Text(PDF) Full Text(DjVu)
- Response by — Swaminathan, M. S. ; Full Text(PDF) Full Text(DjVu)
- Food and nutritional security — Gupta, P. K. ; Full Text(PDF) Full Text(DjVu)
News
- Urban meteorology and climate research in Asia — Fung, J. C. H.; Chan, J. C. L.; Hunt, J. C. R. ; Full Text(PDF) Full Text(DjVu)
- Geochemistry, environmental and sedimentary geology — Ghaznavi, Asma Amjad; Azharuddin, Syed ; Full Text(PDF) Full Text(DjVu)
- Workshop on science writing — Priya, S. ; Full Text(PDF) Full Text(DjVu)
Commentary
- An alternate energy future for India – its implication for India’s climate pledge and the global goal of limiting warming to safe levels — Chaturvedi, Rajiv Kumar; Hiremath, Mitavachan ; Full Text(PDF) Full Text(DjVu)
- Mainstreaming corporate engagement for progress towards the future – Sustainable Development Goals 2030 — Jasmine, Biba ; Full Text(PDF) Full Text(DjVu)
- A temporal analysis of the word ‘impact’ in titles published in Current Science between 1934 and 2015: to what impact? — Uma Shaanker, R. ; Full Text(PDF) Full Text(DjVu)
Scientific Correspondence
- Dolomitic carbonatite from the Chotanagpur Granite Gneiss Complex: a new DARC (Deformed Alkaline Rocks and Carbonatite) in the Precambrian shield of India — Das, Satabdi; Dasgupta, Nandini; Sanyal, Sanjoy; Sengupta, Shyamal; Karmakar, Subrata; Sengupta, Pulak ; Full Text(PDF) Full Text(DjVu)
- Multi-criteria sustainability assessment of coal and solar power generation in India — Mitavachan, H.; Srinivasan, J. ; Full Text(PDF) Full Text(DjVu)
- Biogeographic delineation of the Indian Trans-Himalaya: need for revision — Kumar, Amit; Adhikari, B. S.; Rawat, G. S. ; Full Text(PDF) Full Text(DjVu)
Review Articles
- Earthworm services to soil and agro-ecosystems — D. K. Sharma, S. Tomar and D. Chakraborty ; Full Text(PDF) Full Text(DjVu)
- Role of earthworm in improving soil structure and functioning — Sharma, D. K.; Tomar, S.; Chakraborty, D. ; Full Text(PDF) Full Text(DjVu)
- Evolution and progress in the application of radiation in cancer diagnosis and therapy — Aggarwal, Gaurav ; Aggarwal, Suresh Kumar ; Full Text(PDF) Full Text(DjVu)
Research Articles
- Wave generated structures in the Siwalik rocks — Suchana Taral ; Nandini Kar ; Tapan Chakraborty ; Full Text(PDF) Full Text(DjVu)
- Wave-generated structures in the Siwalik rocks of Tista valley, eastern Himalaya: implication for regional palaeogeography — Taral, Suchana; Kar, Nandini; Chakraborty, Tapan ; Full Text(PDF) Full Text(DjVu)
- Co-registration of LISS-4 multispectral band data using mutual information-based stochastic gradient descent optimization — Manthira Moorthi, S.; Dhar, D.; Sivakumar, R. ; Full Text(PDF) Full Text(DjVu)
Research News
- Research News — Bala, G.; Tharammal, Thejna ; Full Text(PDF) Full Text(DjVu)
- National Physical Laboratory demonstrates 1 g Kibble balance: Linkage of macroscopic mass to Planck constant — Kumar, Anil ; Kumar, Harish ; Ojha, V. N. ; Singh, Shakti ; Moona, Girija ; Satish; Dubey, P. K. ; Singh, H. K. ; Mandal, Goutam ; Aswal, D. K. ; Full Text(PDF) Full Text(DjVu)
- Elephant’s deterrence to cancer decoded — Sandhya Rani, B. ; Full Text(DjVu)
Opinion
- Preprints should not be cited — Teixeira da Silva, Jaime A. ; Full Text(PDF) Full Text(DjVu)
- Climate change and human–wildlife conflicts in the Indian Himalayan biodiversity hotspot — Gupta, Nishikant; Rajvanshi, Asha; Badola, Ruchi ; Full Text(PDF) Full Text(DjVu)
- Polarity, asymmetry and aging: are there Yayatis among bacteria? — Baig, Ulfat ; Watve, Milind ; Lele, Uttara ; Full Text(PDF) Full Text(DjVu)
Forthcoming Articles
Historical Notes
- Keshab Chandra Sarma (1898–1973) – an eminent mycologist in tea of North East India — Dutta, P.; Sandilya, S. P.; Bhattacharyya, P. N.; Sarmah, S. R.; Tanti, A. J.; Madhab, M.; Begum, R. ; Full Text(PDF) Full Text(DjVu)
- Records of sighting of Halley’s Comet in the 1531 apparition and an eclipse in Guru Nanak’s references — R. C. Kapoor ; Full Text(PDF) Full Text(DjVu)
- Debendra Mohan Bose (1885–1975) – an eminent physicist of India — Mukherji, Purabi ; Full Text(DjVu)
Erratum
- The upgraded GMRT: opening new windows on the radio Universe — Gupta, Y. ; Full Text(PDF) Full Text(DjVu)
- Nature’s Third Cycle: A Story of Sunspots — Narasimha, Roddam ; Full Text(DjVu)
- Human-wildlife conflict or co-existence: what do we want? — Sinu, Palatty Allesh ; Nagarajan, M. ; Full Text(DjVu)