Category: Science

Meet D. Indumathi, a physicist who has spent decades exploring some of the universe’s most elusive particles, neutrinos. Recently retired, she built her career in high-energy physics, asking questions that most of us wouldn’t even know how to frame. Physics is often seen as intimidating — abstract, mathematical, distant. But Indumathi approaches it with clarity…

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Imagine you are given three gumballs of different flavours. You are told that one of them is heavier than the others, and one is lighter. But which is which? Your task is made difficult by the fact that these gumballs weigh nearly nothing. And sometimes they swap flavours. Oh, and when you try to pick…

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A transmission electron micrograph of Deinococcus radiodurans. | Photo Credit: Public domain Supertough bug may also survive colliding worlds The bacteria Deinococcus radiodurans is famous for being able to survive extreme radiation and dryness. Researchers have found it can also survive the intense pressures of being blasted off of a planet’s surface: 14,000-24,000 earth atmospheres….

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Akatsuki is the Japanese orbiter that captured images of a 9,700-km-long stationary wave in Venus’s upper atmosphere in 2015, revealing a link between the surface and high-altitude weather. Credit: 江戸村のとくぞう (CC BY-SA) Published – March 06, 2026 05:08 pm IST Source link

Of all the irreconcilable splits in science journalism, the one concerned with what we write about and how we go about has been my bugbear. On the one hand there are journalists focused on telling stories through people. On the other are journalists like me who believe there is more to acknowledging the world and…

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As human populations grow, it is important to find ways to convert wasted biomass into edible products. | Photo Credit: Nick Fewings/Unsplash As the global population increases, the need for more sustainable and nutritious food sources becomes greater. In this context, the book Biomass Conversion and Sustainable Biorefinery edited by Lubis et al. in 2024,highlights…

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