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Growing up in the USA, ten-year-old Steven was asked in school to read aloud a passage from a newspaper. The article described the opening of the first Disneyland.

Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs)—diseases related to the heart and blood vessels—are the number one cause of death in the world.

A recent study by researchers at the Indian Institute of Science, Education and Research (IISER) Kolkata, has resulted in the development of a novel molecular ‘switch’ that turns on in the presence of specific proteins.

IIT Bombay researchers study the effects of poor ventilation on occupants of low-income households

Haven’t we all heard about DNA, the genetic material that makes who we are? Short for Deoxyribonucleic acid, the DNA is made of two chains that coil around each other forming the double helix structure as we know it today. Although Friedrich Miescher first isolated the DNA molecule in 1869, it was not until 1953 that we understood its structure.

Study from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay and TIFR demonstrates a method to turn heat into usable spin current

Researchers from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, have proposed methodologies that can improve the design of automated systems to detect muscle fatigue.

​एक अध्ययन से पता चला है कि भूमि की ​सतह के तापमान के कारण​,​ नगरों के ऊपर ​कोहरे का ​ठहराव  सिकुड़ जाता है।  ​

The field of material science has become exciting in the recent past with scientists discovering some remarkable properties and behaviour of novel materials.

Researchers from the Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, display how a class of toxins, called the pore-forming toxins, work to destroy our cells.