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In this episode of The Joy of Science, Shambhavi Chidambaram speaks to Professor Shravan Vasishth, an Indian-origin professor of psycholinguistics at the University of Potsdam in Germany. In addition to his research, Prof Vasishth is an author of two interesting blogs—“Shravan Vasishth’s Slog”, where he talks about statistics, and “Things People Say”, a moving personal blog about his experiences of dealing with kidney failure and hemodialysis, and navigating the German health care system. 

A new study by researchers at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Kolkata, shows that dogs too have developed strategies to coexist with humans, and numbers play a role in it. 

Vehicular exhaust is a significant cause of air pollution in India, resulting in the rise of many

Research shows a regional nuclear conflict could affect global crop yields and food supply

In February, when the news of the first few confirmed cases of coronavirus in India came to light, we as a nation warmed up to the ‘Wuhan virus’, now at our doorstep.

भारतीय प्रौद्योगिकी संस्थान बॉम्बे के नेतृत्व में शोधकर्ताओं ने चेन्नई में बाढ़ का पूर्वानुमान लगाने के लिए एक प्रणाली डिज़ाइन की है।

Our body has a personal army of dedicated soldiers ready to defend us all the time—our immune system. Its combatants can fend off simple infections like a common cold or a sore throat, as well as life-threatening intruders like Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the bacteria which causes tuberculosis, or the virus that causes hepatitis.

Nature is an enigma; an ensemble of complex structures and functions come together to form a variety of mesmerising artefacts, including life.

शेतातील मातीची ओलावा मोजण्यासाठी ग्राफीन ऑक्साईडपासून स्थायी व स्वस्त सूक्ष्म-संवेदक 

Voluntary movements, like lifting your hand to wave, are executed through precise coordination between different brain areas. Sometimes, due to the loss of neurons in the brain, some individuals cannot coordinate such voluntary movements and are said to be suffering from a condition called ataxia.