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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...
The breathing walls of Golconda Fort
Tourists at Golconda Fort encounter two kinds of guides. The first carries official credentials, facts, and a script. The second "unofficial...
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...
Crystals That Power Innovation: Inside Prof. Parthapratim Munshi’s Multifunctional Molecular Materials Research Laboratory
Scientific progress often begins in places we cannot see—at the level of atoms. Crystallography, the science of understanding how atoms arrange...
Prof. Koichi Kawakami: Unlocking the Secrets of the Brain with Tiny Zebrafish
Imagine being able to watch the brain in action — to see how it thinks, learns, and responds to the world. That’s exactly what Prof. Koichi...
Unlocking the Secrets of Metastable States in Atomic Nuclei
In the complex world of nuclear physics, where matter is probed at its most fundamental level, Prof. Sujit Tandel, Senior Professor at the School...
Translation in Praxis
Two of the past five winners of the International Booker Prize, including this year’s, have been books by Indian authors in English translation:...
Healing Like Nature: Inside Dr. Sumeet Pal Singh’s Regeneration Lab
From repairing a cut on our finger to regenerating an entire liver, nature has equipped living beings with extraordinary healing powers. Some...
Changing the Biodiesel Game With Pyrolysis
Spanish painter, sculptor, and co-founder of the Cubist movement, Pablo Picasso, might have meant something entirely different when he said that...