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Scientifically Speaking: Fake scientific research on the rise, says study

India, Aug. 13 -- At 11.47 pm, a scientist in California compares two cancer research papers. They come from different labs and claim to study different things, but one image in each is identical. She... Read More


Scientifically Speaking: Fake scientific research on the rise, say study

India, Aug. 13 -- At 11.47 pm, a scientist in California compares two cancer research papers. They come from different labs and claim to study different things, but one image in each is identical. She... Read More


Scientifically Speaking: Science is accessible now, and kids should be encouraged to take it up

India, July 18 -- Last year, a group of high school students in California set out to tackle one of the most stubborn environmental problems in chemistry: PFAS, so-called 'forever chemicals' found in ... Read More


Scientifically Speaking: Does ChatGPT really make us stupid?

India, July 2 -- A few months after I took apart articles that mischaracterised a study of AI tools as causing people to lose critical thinking skills in a column for HT, viral headlines are at it aga... Read More


Scientifically speaking: India's brightest should rethink the safe coding path

India, June 26 -- At a recent panel at Indian Institute Of Technology (IIT) Madras, directors from five of India's top engineering institutions offered a prescription: it's time to move beyond the cod... Read More


Scientifically speaking: Your nose knows best

India, June 11 -- The honeydew tasted like a sugary potato. That was my first clue that something was wrong. I pride myself on having a keen sense of smell (sometimes to my disadvantage in putrid pla... Read More


Scientifically Speaking: India in the age of unlivable heat

India, June 5 -- It is getting harder to talk about climate change. Not because it's less urgent, but because it is now everywhere, all the time. We normalise what should shock us, because ignoring it... Read More


Axolotl: The amphibian that writes its own body map

India, May 29 -- Imagine losing an arm in an accident, only to grow it back exactly as it was before, right down to the fingerprints. Such regenerative power is standard fare for comic-book superheroe... Read More


Scientifically Speaking| Axolotl: The amphibian that writes its own body map

India, May 29 -- Imagine losing an arm in an accident, only to grow it back exactly as it was before, right down to the fingerprints. Such regenerative power is standard fare for comic-book superheroe... Read More


Scientifically Speaking: Crows can spot geometric flaws without Math tools

India, May 22 -- A crow doesn't need a compass or a protractor to know when something looks off. That's the latest revelation from a study in Science Advances, which shows that carrion crows can spot ... Read More