Science Reporter - December 2015
NISCAIR | ISSN :0036-8512 | True PDF | 64 pages (with ads) | 16.2 mb

COVER STORY
General Relativity at 100!
Looking back at 100 years of general relativity BIMAN BASU  pg 14

ARTICLES
Poison in the Plastic? UJWALA KARMARKAR	pg 22
Bioplastics: Sustainable Green Plastics PRAGATI PRAMANIK, USHA MINA & NIMISHA SHARMA pg 26
Electrically Conducting Polymers: Revolutionizing Technology A.K. BAKHSHI & PRIYANKA THAKRAL pg 28
Nationally Appropriate Mitigation AAKANKSHA SHARMA	pg 34 Actions

NOBEL PRIZES 2015
PHYSICS: The Case of the Missing Sub-atomic Chameleons K. SMILES MASCARENHAS	pg 37 
CHEMISTRY: Unzipping the Functions of DNA Repair BIJU DHARMAPALAN	Pg 40
PHYSIOLOGY OR MEDICINE: Mao, Malaria pGOB and the Discovery of Artemisinin T.V. VENKATESWARAN  pg 43

REPORT
Creative Science Writing to Spark Interest HASAN JAWAID KHAN pg 48

DEPARTMENTS
REACTIONS ..................................… 8
EDITORIAL ....................................… 9
SPECTRUM .................................… 10
PUZZLE CORNER ........................… 52
THIS MONTH IN SCIENCE .............. 54
WHAT’S NEW................................. 56
SCIPICS .......................................… 57
TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE .............…58
FUN QUIZ ...................................... 60
CROSSWORD ................................. 63
 
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