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The never ending story of bronze artifacts from South India

Art and artifacts from yesteryears is of great help to historians and archaeologists to string together stories about the past. They give insights into the culture, religion, politics and other aspect...

Jan 02, 2017 ಓದಿ →

Prof. Prabeer Barpanda – A positively charged academician

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Prof. Prabeer Barpanda – A positively charged academician

Not many young professors are as driven as Professor Prabeer Barpanda who has been donned with an unbelievable streak of academic awards. A professor at the Materials Research Centre, Indian Institute...

Jan 02, 2017 ಓದಿ →

Chandan Saha – A Computer Scientist with an eye for Mathematics

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Chandan Saha – A Computer Scientist with an eye for Mathematics

Chandan Saha of the Computer Science and Automation department, Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru is the winner of two prestigious national awards – the Indian National Science Academy (...

Dec 29, 2016 ಓದಿ →

Professor Praveen Kumar - A materials scientist with an eye for detail

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Professor Praveen Kumar - A materials scientist with an eye for detail

Dropped your mobile phone? You may soon stop worrying about it, thanks to the newly discovered phenomena related to carbon nanotube foam used as a shock-absorbent material in mobile phones. As a mater...

Dec 28, 2016 ಓದಿ →

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Fireside chat with Ms. Alyssa Gilbert

The world is definitely getting hotter, thanks to climate change – the topic that is hottest at the moment! What responsibilities do scientific institutes and businesses have, to make this world a c...

Dec 27, 2016 ಓದಿ →

New species of skittering frog discovered from the west coast of India

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New species of skittering frog discovered from the west coast of India

The frog was first chanced upon by a citizen scientist thinking it was a bird call.  A team of frog enthusiasts including citizens, freelance researchers and scientists have discovered a new s...

Dec 25, 2016 ಓದಿ →

Combating Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis: Preventing the TB Microbe from Hijacking the Immune System

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Combating Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis: Preventing the TB Microbe from Hijacking the Immune System

Tuberculosis (TB) is one of the deadliest infectious diseases in the world, affecting 9.6 million people worldwide in 2015, of which 2.2 million were in India. Although tuberculosis is curable through...

Dec 23, 2016 ಓದಿ →

What an Ooty Based Telescope is Telling Us About the Earth’s Magnetic Field, the Sun and the Universe

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What an Ooty Based Telescope is Telling Us About the Earth’s Magnetic Field, the Sun and the Universe

A protective sheath covering the earth, bombarding cosmic rays, violent storms in the upper atmosphere – these are not figments of imagination from a sci-fi novel but are rather accurate description...

Dec 21, 2016 ಓದಿ →

Citizen engagement in science results in re-description of the Sholiga Narrow Mouthed Frog from South Western India

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Citizen engagement in science results in re-description of the Sholiga Narrow Mouthed Frog from South Western India

This endangered frog was under-studied for 16 years and previously known from only two locations. A team of frog enthusiasts, including scientists from Gubbi Labs, Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecol...

Dec 21, 2016 ಓದಿ →

Towards a better cure for neglected tropical diseases

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Towards a better cure for neglected tropical diseases

How many tropical diseases do you know of? Malaria, dengue and sleeping sickness immediately come to mind. Maybe leprosy, if you think hard enough. But, many of us may not have heard of cutaneous leis...

Dec 19, 2016 ಓದಿ →

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The never ending story of bronze artifacts from South India

Prof. Prabeer Barpanda – A positively charged academician

Chandan Saha – A Computer Scientist with an eye for Mathematics

Professor Praveen Kumar - A materials scientist with an eye for detail

Fireside chat with Ms. Alyssa Gilbert

New species of skittering frog discovered from the west coast of India

Combating Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis: Preventing the TB Microbe from Hijacking the Immune System

What an Ooty Based Telescope is Telling Us About the Earth’s Magnetic Field, the Sun and the Universe

Citizen engagement in science results in re-description of the Sholiga Narrow Mouthed Frog from South Western India

Towards a better cure for neglected tropical diseases