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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 … Read more

An illustration of the RNA called mRNA. | Photo Credit: Getty Images In a study published in the journal Clean Water on March 28, scientists reported that extracellular RNA (exRNA) from bacteria can persist in disinfected drinking water. They also found that by studying the exRNA, they could figure out what the bacteria were doing … Read more

Researchers used a device that mimicked the weightlessness of space to check how microgravity affected human, mouse, and pig cells. Representative image. | Photo Credit: AP Microgravity can alter sperm’s ability to navigate Researchers used a device that mimicked the weightlessness of space to check how microgravity affected human, mouse, and pig cells. They found … Read more

Ever since Pluto was reclassified as a dwarf planet, the first planet of the solar system — Mercury — has also become its smallest. Mercury might be the smallest planet orbiting the sun, but studying it is no mean feat. In fact, it is quite the opposite, as studying Mercury is quite a challenge.  Did … Read more

Psychological safety is the condition underneath all the others, the ground on which everything else gets built [File] | Photo Credit: REUTERS The way offices work has always changed in waves, but the last three decades delivered something different — a pace of change that didn’t allow people to settle before the next disruption arrived. … Read more

Water Storage Pot made up of Terracotta Clay Summers are here, and with them comes an endless thirst. We drink more water than usual and cold water feels almost magical in the heat. Quick fun fact: when you drink cold water, it absorbs heat from your body as it warms up, helping lower your core … Read more

A team of researchers from the Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati (IIT-G) have developed energy-efficient bricks. | Photo Credit: The Hindu GUWAHATI A team of researchers from the Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati (IIT-G) have developed energy-efficient bricks designed to keep buildings naturally cool, offering a solution for sustainable construction. The researchers are Bitupan Das, … Read more

It was early 2023. In a ground-floor laboratory at the National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS) in north Bengaluru, Ph.D candidate Nayan Chakraborty was readying to examine the results of another iteration of an experiment he had been attempting for three months. There was no reason to believe this trial, nearly his 1,000th, would be … Read more

A steroidal cocktail of chemicals in the plant both nurtures and negatively impacts monarch caterpillars. | Photo Credit: AP Canopied with vibrant little star-shaped flowers, the tropical milkweed shrub is a favourite of millions of migrating monarch butterflies in America, which lay their eggs on them, feed on their leaves and stems as caterpillars, and … Read more