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‘Global South scientists can tip red tape by thinking, working together’
Bureaucratic red tape, limited funding, and expensive equipment often conspire to make scientific research in the Global South an uphill task. Yet researchers continue to find creative ways to keep going. At a plenary lecture during the Student Conference on Conservation Science in Bengaluru in September, Sammy Wambua, a conservation genomics scientist from Pwani University…
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Conclave in November to showcase ‘evolution’ of Indian science
n this image received on Oct. 6, 2025, Minister of State for Science and Technology (Independent Charge) Jitendra Singh interacts with media at the curtain raiser press conference on Emerging Science, Technology and Innovation Conclave (ESTIC-2025) at National Media Centre, in New Delhi. Photo: PIB via PTI Photo The government’s first ever Emerging Science, Technology…
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The Rearview Podcast | Proof: How Ramanujan Tamed Maths’ Toughest Monster
Many of us are familiar with the name Srinivasa Ramanujan and his black and white photograph. He was one of India’s brightest mathematicians. In this episode we dive into his life – from struggling to pass college in Tamil Nadu to reaching the hallowed halls of Cambridge. Ramanujan’s notebooks scribbled with theorems that he discovered…
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Who are the winners of the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine?
Mary E. Brunkow (US), Fred Ramsdell (US) and Shimon Sakaguchi (Japan) win Nobel medicine prize. | Photo Credit: Courtesy: https://www.nobelprize.org/ The 2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded to Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell, and Shimon Sakaguchi for their work on how immune systems work in determining what should be attacked or protected….
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Who are the winners of the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine?
Mary E Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi are awarded this year’s Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology at Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, Sweden, on October 6, 2025. | Photo Credit: Reuters The 2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded to Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell, and Shimon Sakaguchi for their work on…
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Medicine Nobel 2025 awarded – The Hindu
The Nobel Prize for 2025 in Physiology or Medicine goes to Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi “for their discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance,” the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced on Monday (October 6, 2025). The laureates identified the immune system’s security guards, regulatory T cells, which prevent immune cells from attacking our…
Philippines pioneers coral larvae cryobank to protect threatened reefs
Known as the “Amazon of the seas”, the Coral Triangle is a 5.7 million sq. km expanse across the tropical waters of Indonesia, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, Solomon Islands, and Timor-Leste — and the richest marine ecosystem on the earth. The Triangle is home to more than three-quarters of the world’s coral species,…
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What is xenobiology? – The Hindu
Xenobiology asks whether earthlife is the only possible form of life. | Photo Credit: Warren Umoh/Unsplash Xenobiology is a new and rapidly growing branch of science that studies how life could exist using biological systems different from those that prevail on the earth. The word comes from the Greek for “the study of alien life”….
The case to rethink India’s influenza vaccination strategy
For most of us, influenza, or “the flu”, is dismissed as a seasonal nuisance that causes fever, cough, and body aches for a week or so before disappearing. Influenza is far from harmless, however. Worldwide, it’s a major cause of respiratory illness, hospitalisation, and deaths, especially among children, older adults, and people with underlying medical…
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