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He did not receive the Nobel Prize in medicine. But his medicine is still saving millions of people. What is it? [Read]

As a geologist, Pramatha Nath traveled a wide range of inaccessible places in Indian and Myanmar in search of minerals. But who was this geologist? [Read]

Usually, famines are linked to low soil moisture. But was it always true? What about 1943 Bengal famine that killed almost 3 million people? Let’s have a closer look. [Read]

A ‘soil-eating’ theory of the plants remained unchallenged for centuries until in the 1640s a Flemish scientist named Jan Baptista van Helmont did a brilliant experiment. [Read]

Last night I was reading ‘The Argumentative Indian’ by Nobel-prize-winning economist Prof. Amartya Sen. But then this happened. [Read]

In 1928 at the Indian Association of Cultivation of Science (IACS), CV Raman and his student KS Krishnan discovered a novel phenomenon that would change their lives. [Read]

Is cancer a very modern disease directly related to industrial progress and our modern lifestyle? Let’s find it out. [Read]

Around 5000 years from now, in the plain of the Indo-Gangetic basin, the great cities of Indus civilization flourished. How an ancient river played a role in this? [Read]

It does not matter how your body weight is changing, the cells you are made of are always fluctuating in fast tiny ‘picogram’ amounts. But how we measure it? [Read]

In the summer of 1974, at the Friday Harbor in Washington, besides the magnificent Pacific Ocean, a scientist in his 40s had gathered with his friends and family. But what he was doing? [Read]

Scientists are yet to find a complete cure for Alzheimer and treatments currently available are the only palliative in nature. Let's find out about this disease. [Read]