Blow hot, blow cold
The world’s largest “thermometer camera” started operations atop the 5100-metre-high Chajnantor plateau in the Chilean Andes, the European Southern Observatory said on 4 August. The Large Bolometer Camera, which is cooled down to about 0.3 kelvin, will measure the temperature of extremely cold objects in the universe formed soon after the big bang.
Cheap drugs ‘victory’
Drug companies in India can carry on making cheap variants of lifesaving medicines, thanks to a High Court ruling in Madras on 6 August. The court rejected a challenge from the pharmaceutical company, Novartis, which sought to stop Indian companies…
