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Reclaiming India’s fragrance heritage — why a name matters

March 29, 2026 admin

India’s relationship with fragrance is ancient, intimate, and profoundly sophisticated. Long before perfume became a global industry, long before it was bottled, branded, advertised, and sold in department stores, fragrance in India was understood as a lived technology-deeply embedded in medicine, ritual, daily grooming, aesthetics, seasonal rhythms, and even spiritual practice. Scent was never merely…

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Neurobehavioural therapy can reshape brain networks in functional neuro disorders, says expert

February 15, 2026 admin

Prof. LaFrance, Professor of Psychiatry and Neurology at Alpert Medical School, Brown University, said that neurobehavioural therapy has demonstrated measurable changes in functional and structural brain connectivity. | Photo Credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto Functional neurological disorders, long dismissed as purely psychogenic conditions, are now understood as disorders of neural network dysfunction shaped by cognition, emotion and…

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What is radioactive decay? – The Hindu

January 26, 2026 admin

In a random moment, all energy is lost. | Photo Credit: Unsplash Images In a random moment, all energy is lost. The unstable subject cannot help but decay, slowly but surely, letting go of particles to become stable. It loses itself to become balanced again. This is a radioactive atom’s decay. Warning: Danger ahead Look…

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Shocking science: What causes static electricity?

December 9, 2025 admin

Static electricity with hair and a balloon. | Photo Credit: WIKIMEDIA COMMONS To put it simply, static electricity is the small buildup of electrical charge on the surface of an object. It occurs when materials rub against each other and the friction often comes with a transfer of electrons, leading to an imbalance of charges….

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No, no, noise: The noise cancellation science

December 3, 2025 admin

It is possible to build a temporary reality sans noise. | Photo Credit: Freepik Our reality is a yes, yippie one for noise. We are always swimming in it. Sound waves pervade our atmosphere and a certain portion of those sound waves are what we refer to as noise (Sounds change into its alter ego…

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Science for All | New atlas reveals tiled bodies are common across life on earth

November 19, 2025 admin

Tiling classification variables and sub-variables with examples (This article forms a part of the Science for All newsletter that takes the jargon out of science and puts the fun in! Subscribe now!) Biologists and designers have long been fascinated by repeating patterns in nature, from spirals in shells to honeycombs in bees’ nests. However, they…

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Science for all what is the connection between extreme heat and increased sugar consumption

October 22, 2025 admin

Image used for representation | Photo Credit: V Raju (This article forms a part of the Science for All newsletter that takes the jargon out of science and puts the fun in! Subscribe now!) Ice creams and carbonated drinks aren’t just innocent treats anymore. There is now quantifiable scientific research warning about people using them…

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Tinkering towards a brighter future

October 17, 2025 admin

Manishka Dubey is known for having won The Inventor Challenge on Colors Infinity TV, for her ‘Child Safety Band’, a creation that was made to help children when they get lost and can’t find their parents. Her great passion towards STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) and strong desire to help others have led her…

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A Guardian’s tale: Just how strong is Jupiter’s gravity?

October 17, 2025 admin

Fortune must have had a pretty good time when the solar nebula exploded, tossed, roared, and turned around 4.6 billion years ago. If the slightest something hadn’t gone the way it did, we wouldn’t be here writing and studying the ‘what ifs’ and ‘what is’ of our universe. One night, like our good old Galileo,…

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Science for all Curiosity-driven research in an unequal world

October 15, 2025 admin

(This article forms a part of the Science for All newsletter that takes the jargon out of science and puts the fun in! Subscribe now!) There is ample evidence that the big leaps science achieves from time to time are often built on scientists asking simple questions, driven solely by their curiosity and not because…

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