Stay Connected. Stay Informed.
(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…
Read More “Science for all Curiosity-driven research in an unequal world” »
You are sitting in your class, and your teacher is writing on the board using chalk. Sqqqqquuuueeeaaakkkkk — there’s a sudden disturbance as the chalk scratches the board loudly. You automatically put your hands over your ears to escape the loud screeching noise. This is a common scenario you would have faced in your school….
Material-engineered multicolor luminescent plants (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!) Glow-in-the-dark plants are not new. In fact, scientists created the first bioluminescent plant way back in 1986, when they combined genes from firefly, Photinus pyralis, with…
International Space Station (image used for representation) (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!) Wherever humans go, they need oxygen to breathe — and soon enough humans are going to go to new parts of space and…
Read More “Science for all: Magnets deliver shot in the arm for making oxygen in space” »
Image used for representation | Photo Credit: Amir Cohen (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!) Embryo implantation is a decisive step in mammalian reproduction. When a fertilised egg reaches the uterus, it must successfully attach to…
Read More “Science for all: First real-time video of how an embryo implants itself produced” »
Representative image. | Photo Credit: Murali Kumar K./The Hindu Conflicts lurk inside every flower with multiple seeds. The embryos jostle for food, the maternal and paternal genomes bargain over control, and pollen grains compete to be fertilised. Scientists have therefore wondered whether natural selection encourages one-parent broods that keep such quarrels to a minimum and,…
Read More “Science for all: Most flowers usually pick one father and stick with him” »
Image used for representation. | Photo Credit: Fabrice Coffrini (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!) Usually, scientists believe that an immune system response kicks in after the infecting pathogen has entered the body. However, a new…
Artificial intelligence (AI) could have predicted the powerful solar storm that impacted Earth in May last year, triggered by the highly active region AR13664 on the Sun, according to a new study. The team of researchers at the University of Genoa, led by Sabrina Guastavino, stated that by training AI on historical solar events, it…
Read More “AI Could Have Predicted May 2024 Solar Storms, Study Claims” »
Belgian research scientist Clement Martin, who works with Belgium’s federal police to create a “perfume” that mimics the smell of dried human bones to help sniffer dogs find long lost remains, looks at human bones in his laboratory in Gembloux, Belgium January 15, 2025. | Photo Credit: Reuters A Belgian research scientist is working with…
Read More “Scientist bottles smell of bones to help solve cold cases” »
Scientists have claimed that an interstellar visitor, much larger than any celestial body in our solar system, might have dramatically altered the orbits of the planets. The research, yet to be peer-reviewed but published in the arXiv preprint database, posits that this cosmic intruder, possibly eight times the mass of Jupiter, passed very close to…
Read More “Alien Cosmic Visitor Might Have Completely Rearranged Our Solar System, Study Finds” »