Janaki Ammal: India’s First Woman PhD in Botany
Edavaleth Kakkat Janaki Ammal is considered a pioneer in Botany who worked on plant breeding, cytogenetics and phytogeography. Kakkat Janaki Ammal was one of the first women to receive a …
Daulat Singh Kothari: Story of an exceptional Educationist and Scientist
Daulat Singh Kothari was an eminent Indian scientist and great educationist. He is highly appreciated for his contributions to the entire spectrum of Indian education from elementary level to University level. …
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Anna Mani: Pioneer Indian Meteorologist
Anna Mani (Anna Modayil Mani) was an Indian physicist and a distinguished meteorologist. She was one of India’s pioneering women scientists. Mani was the former Deputy Director-General of the Indian …
Gopalaswamy Doraiswamy Naidu: Edison Of India
G.D. Naidu or Gopalswamy Doraiswamy Naidu, fondly remembered as “Edison of India” and “The Wealth Creator of Coimbatore“, is credited for initiating the industrial revolution in the country. He had …
Homi Jehangir Bhabha: Father Of Indian Nuclear Program
Padma Bhushan Homi Jehangir Bhabha was an Indian nuclear physicist and is often considered as the ‘father of the Indian nuclear program’. Early Life Bhabha was born on 30th October …
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Birbal Sahni: The Story Of An Indian Paleobotanist
Professor Birbal Sahni FRS was an Indian paleobotanist, a branch of botany that deals with the biological reconstruction of past environments and identification of plants that remain from geological contexts. …
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Diet And Exercise During Childhood Creates Healthier And Less Anxious adults
New research from the University of California Riverside has found that exercise and a healthy diet in childhood leads to adults with bigger brains and lower levels of anxiety, This …
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Physicists Observe A New State Of Light
We all have heard of the super photon. It is a photon made up of many thousands of individual light particles. About 10 years ago, a team of researchers at …
3D-Printed Novel Biomaterial Mimics Properties Of Brain Tissues
What if we could transplant healthy neurons into patients with neurodegenerative diseases or brain and spinal cord injuries? And what’s more interesting is what if we can grow these neurons …
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Chemists Report New Isotope Of Fluorine
New research from the Washington University in St. Louis has reported the first findings of a new form of fluorine, the isotope 13F. They found this as part of an …
Researchers Find Zombie Genes In Our Brain
New research from the University of Illinois, Chicago has found that some cells increase their activity and grow in large proportions after our death. The study analyzed gene expression in …
Scientists Came Up With A Map Of Potentially Undiscovered Life
A team of researchers from Yale University has launched a new map of places where life has yet to be discovered. They did this in less than a decade after …
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Mars Water Is Still Trapped There
Billions of years ago, the Red Planet was far bluer, according to evidence still found on the surface, abundant water flowed across Mars and forming pools, lakes, and deep oceans. …
A Poorly Understood Protein Found To Be The Most Important Cellular Defence Regulator
New research from the University of Illinois Chicago has found that heparanase, HPSE, a poorly understood protein, is a key regulator of cells’ innate defence mechanisms. So what exactly is …
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A Giant Telescope Deployed Several Feet Below Baikal Lake
A team of Russian scientists have launched one of the world’s largest underwater telescopes to watch deep into the Universe from the water of Lake Baikal. In collaboration with scientists …
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Antarctica Was Stuck With Incredibly Powerful Antimatter Particles
A team of scientists have confirmed that an unusually powerful particle of antimatter crashed into Antarctica back in December 2016. This collision seems to have triggered a subatomic cascade effect …
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Engineers Want To Build A Doomsday Vault Of Earth’s Species On the Moon
What if we suddenly are faced with end-of-life right now? Sounds pretty scary right. With the growing events out there in the world, a team of researchers from the University …
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Generating 3D Holograms In Real-Time Using Artificial Intelligence
Virtual Reality was one term that became a hot topic once. But it fell as time passed, as there were its reasons. These include making users feel sick. VR creates …
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We Are Astonishingly Similar To First Animals On Earth
New research shows that we humans are like the Earth’s first animals. Although they may have lacked heads, legs, or arms, pieces of them remain in us. The research by …
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Researchers Develop a Technique To Speed Up 3D Printing by 10-50 Times
3D printing is developing quickly. We now have a machine that dips into a shallow vat of translucent yellow goo and pulls out what becomes a life-sized hand. It’s just …
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Peculiar 23 Foot Faceless Sea Creature Found On Welsh Beach
There is a lot there out in the world we still have to discover. Ocean and sea creatures are surely one of the first places we need to explore more. …
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A Contact Lens Which Can Safely Correct Color Blindness
Researchers from Khalifa University and Imperial College have developed contact lenses which can safely help people with colour blindness to see colours. We can use tinted glasses, but they cannot …
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Factoring In Gravitomagnetism Could Do Away With Dark Matter
Observations of galactic rotation curves give one of the strongest lines of evidence pointing towards the existence of dark matter, a non-baryonic form of matter that makes up an estimated …
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Dr Yellapragada Subbarao: The Miracle Man of Medicine
Dr Yellapragada Subbarao is the man behind some of the most significant milestones in medical history who is often forgotten when we talk about medical experts such as Alexander Fleming …
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Human Hunting Was A Reason Behind The Extinction Of Woolly Mammoth As Well
A new research has found a likely reason for the extinction of the woolly mammoth. The paper currently on the preprint server, biorxiv, says that it was a combination of …
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