Blogs
From Waste to Wonder: Rethinking Materials for a Sustainable Future
The next time you see something discarded—a nutshell, a piece of agricultural waste—it may be worth pausing for a moment. What looks like waste...
AI begins to reveal how drugs are found
Drug discovery has never been a straightforward process. For decades, it has relied on informed guesswork carried out under tight constraints....
In the Silence of Networks, Failure Emerges
Walk down a crowded city street while streaming a video, and your phone performs a quiet miracle. It hops from one base station to another, keeping...
What Delhi-NCR's Smog Does Inside Your Lungs
Every winter, the script remains the same. The air quality in Delhi-NCR turns foul, and the blame game begins. Emergency measures are announced,...
The Science That Could Save India's Harvest
In India, wheat is more than a crop—it is a lifeline. It feeds hundreds of millions, anchors the public distribution system, and steadies food...
Cracking the Caisson Puzzle for mega structures
What could possibly connect the haunting calm of Silent Night, the stirring cadence of The Army Goes Rolling Along, the official song of the US...
Barbers, Belief and the Battle for Dignity
In an intellectual climate where discussions on Indian Muslims are often flattened into binaries, Dr. P. C. Saidalavi’s book, ‘Seeking...
Light Solution For A Deadly Problem
A flash of blue light may help solve one of the most persistent water pollution problems. For years, scientists have been grappling with a chemical...
Guiding Restless Molecules into Meaningful Materials
In the Radical Chemistry and Catalysis Laboratory at Shiv Nadar University, led by Dr Ajoy Kapat, chemistry is approached as a pathway to solving...
Convergence of Crisis and Opportunity
Every morning in the Namib Desert, as fog rolls in from the Atlantic, a beetle performs a ritual perfected over millions of years. It climbs atop a...