With over one lakh visitors to date, the Bengaluru-based Curiouscity’s science centre has exhibits and experiments for children aged 8-15 years that have been designed by experts from IITs, IISc and Cornell, and facilitated by trained guides. It takes at least three hours to fully cover the centre and interact with the models
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To attract senior scientists from other countries, India needs a strong, stable commitment to science, which means not only much more funding but also more stable funding, much better infrastructure and, just as importantly, insulating science from politics and excessive bureaucratic rules and regulations
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The long-awaited reforms to the procurement processes — General Financial Rules, Government e-Marketplace, and Global Tender Enquiry — address the bureaucratic bottlenecks that for years hampered the scientific community’s ability to conduct world-class research
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Perfume performance has traditionally been explained through skin chemistry — pH, sebum, moisture, and temperature. But these traits are heavily
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The role of the IIT Roorkee team led by Prof. Arumugam was in ascertaining the proton emission through theoretical calculations
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In January-February this year, Neurosurgical Review, a Springer Nature journal, retracted 129 Commentaries. Of them, 87 Commentaries are by the Chennai-based Saveetha Institute
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On January 9, 2025, the Department of Biotechnology (DBT) called for proposals on ‘Translational research using genomeIndia data’ from scientists
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In total, 180 million mutations have been found from the individuals sequenced; while 130 million variations are in the non-sex
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Moderate rainfall spread over the entire duration of the summer monsoon season led to increased dengue deaths in Pune compared
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The Nobel Prize in chemistry has been awarded to David Baker for succeeding in the seemingly impossible feat of building new proteins
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This year’s Nobel Prize in Physiology, or Medicine, awarded to Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun, is for their discovery of microRNA, small
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If the most glaring limitation of the study is the lack of a control group, the absence of data on
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Researchers at the School of Biotechnology, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi have developed an Artificial Intelligence-based tool to predict the
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