Harikrishnan Nair

Moral Machine Experiment presents tough choices to 2.3 million people worldwide. Amid variations among countries, most put human lives first.

The objective is to provide an alternative means of street lighting and save on electricity. Since then, the idea has not only received wide coverage but also been viewed with some skepticism.

After multiple reschedules, the flood-hit airport had announced that it would reopen at 2 pm Wednesday. Before the shutdown, the airport was the seventh largest airport in the country in terms of passenger traffic for 2017-18: A footfall of more than 10 million flyers.

Along with the genetically modified organisms (GMOs), gene-edited crops are considered to play an important role in increasing productivity. However, question marks remain over the efficiency of gene editing and its potential to disrupt the natural order.

Why a novel project holds out hope for cleaner drains and rivers, free also of ‘contaminants of emerging concern’.

Japan, which Airbnb says is the top travel destination in the Asia-Pacific region for its customers, has long had a system of family-run guesthouses in which rooms are let out to visitors. Airbnb’s rapid expansion in Japan rode on the laxity in the enforcement of the minshuku (literally, inn) rules.

From a court battle between Delhi and Haryana to angry exchanges between neighbours — water scarcity in the capital is playing out in many ways this year. The Indian Express takes stock of the worst-hit areas, where life revolves around when the water tanker will arrive

The authors of the research screened 167 mynas captured from eight locations in Pakistan’s Faisalabad district, and found 20% of the birds to be infected. The birds that tested positive to the parasite were spread across all eight locations.

Recent re-entries of a Chinese space station and an ISRO vehicle throw the spotlight once again on the debris in space.

Facebook represented a world of possibilities for a generation.

This study had the explicit consent of 58,000 volunteers. Cambridge Analytica, on the other hand, is accused of profiling 50 million users, not just of those who downloaded the particular app, but of their friends as well, to create highly targeted ad campaigns.

A total of 19 trains will be in service on the line. Trains will also ply on two shorter routes — between Durgabai Deshmukh South Campus and Shakurpur, and Majlis Park and Shakurpur stations.

Study by researchers based at IIT Delhi and University of California, Berkeley suggests that climate change could reduce levels of the highly toxic fine particulate matter of size smaller than 2.5 microns (PM2.5) in the air above the Indian landmass.

Elon Musk wants 12,000 satellites to hook all corners of the Earth to the Web.

While according to NGT orders, parking in the city should be restricted to designated areas, there are only around 250 surface parking lots in the city and even fewer multi-level lots for the estimated 1,400 vehicles that are added to Delhi’s roads every day.

The tricky jump from giving up one’s ancestral property, tied up in memories, for an apartment in the builder block that will come up in its place.

Rightwing nationalist government outlaws discussion on Polish involvement with Nazis to stop ‘slander’, Israel frowns.

The 15-day ‘Clean Air for Delhi’ awareness campaign will see 70 teams of five members each fan out into every Assembly constituency. The teams will monitor sources of pollution and penalise polluters.

With data from Rosetta, the team believes it can now drill into the nucleus of the comet to retrieve at least 100 grams material.

The odd-even scheme is part of GRAP — to be enforced if air quality deteriorates to “severe plus” levels.

It trended with a tweet by Dalton Ludwick, a PhD candidate in entomology: “If you could have the entire world know just one thing about your field of study, then what would it be? #MyOneScienceTweet.” The hashtag soon caught on with scientists, from biologists to astronomers.

From audio of buzzing wings recorded by citizens, new technique seeks to identify mosquitoes for worldwide surveillance

First it was demonetisation and then the GST. I supported demonetisation but then the government should have given us small enterprises time to prepare for the GST.

Plan is to install radio frequency ID tags in vehicles