Artificial intelligence

Scientists train AI to visualise the unseen, bringing them closer to the human understanding of the world

Disease biology

• World zoonoses day: learning from past mistakes and prepping for a healthy future

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• Baseball and malaria keep coming back

Insect behaviour

Dominance sans aggression

Psychology

• The COVID19 lockdown: Our self-induced psychological experiment?

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• Depression: Drowning in the sea of misery
  [Shared by Neucrad Health, India]

Access needs

​Hearing out the deaf: IISc researchers design a smartphone-based therapy and hearing aid

Environment

World chocolate day: Chocolate and its ‘bittersweet’ relationship with humans and the environment

Climate activism

• An ode to the young voices echoing the earth’s call for help [Book review of – United we are unstoppable]

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• The show must go on

Computational biology

Playing rock-paper-scissors with bacteria

Dog behaviour

How are lockdowns affecting animals around us? This 'Dog Lab' investigates through citizen science

Social science

• Caste discrimination hinders access to information among farmers, finds study

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• Girls, not brides: Study explores what drives early marriages among girls in India and Ethiopia [Shared by semonegna.com, Ethiopia]

Inside academia

IISER Kolkata: How fund cuts in scientific research are affecting staff workers​

Coronavirus origins

Mystery thickens over COVID-19’s origin; claims of hidden early genetic information attracts further scrutiny

Climate change

Climate change is degrading beautiful, diverse ocean ecosystems into simplified algae carpets: study

Clean energy

• Azure lockdown skies resulted in higher solar power generation, study shows

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• Is renewable energy the silver bullet to India’s electricity woes?

Social networks

Social networks: Spoilers to the ‘surprise’ element in election results?

Women in science

Introducing #WIISER by IISER Kolkata

[Find out more about #WIISER]

Post-COVID

In preparation of post-COVID India, here’s who are most vulnerable

Human evolution

China’s ‘dragon man’ fossil sheds new light on human-origins; new homo species deemed our closest ancestral relative

Electric mobility

Electrifying the way forward: with multiple policy incentives, June 2021 turns into month of e-mobility for India

Science awards

• Nobel in focus 2020

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• Mathematician Dr. Neena Gupta shines as the youngest Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar awardee

Space tourism

• Three Horsemen of Space Tourism—Richard Branson, Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk! What Are the Implications?

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• Pushing the frontiers of space: Difference between private space flights of Virgin Galactic and Blue Origin