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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


Scientifically Speaking: Antibiotics we take enter rivers, help breeds resistance

India, May 14 -- You take an antibiotic. A few days later, you feel better and move on. But the medicine doesn't just enter your body and completely disappear. It passes through your body and enters t... Read More


The antibiotics we take are entering our rivers and helping breed resistance

India, May 14 -- You take an antibiotic. A few days later, you feel better and move on. But the medicine doesn't just enter your body and completely disappear. It passes through your body and enters t... Read More


Tim Friede: Man bitten by snakes hundreds of times helps create broad antivenom

India, May 8 -- It's not often that a major scientific paper leads one to a story like this. It was while reading a new Cell study on snake venom antibodies that the name of a "hyperimmune donor" in t... Read More


Scientifically Speaking: Why morning heart attacks are more dangerous

India, April 29 -- It's a fact that has been observed by many doctors. Heart attacks that strike in the early morning are quite often the deadliest. Now, researchers finally think they know why. And t... Read More