SCI-ART LAB
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JAI VIGNAN
All about Science - to remove misconceptions and encourage scientific temper
Communicating science to the common people
'To make them see the world differently through the beautiful lense of science'
Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa
AI is distorting online research, from polls to public policy
AI systems can now convincingly simulate human responses in online surveys and polls, undermining the reliability of survey-based research and public policy data. Traditional safeguards like CAPTCHAs and attention checks are increasingly ineffective. New strategies, including behavioural analysis and tasks exploiting human error patterns, are needed to maintain data integrity as AI advances.
Folco Panizza et al, How to deal with the survey-taking AI agents that threaten to upend social science, Nature (2026). DOI: 10.1038/d41586-026-00386-2
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Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa
Fungi flip mattresses into useful materials
Material from discarded mattresses can be upcycled into fire-resistant insulation with the help of a fungus. Researchers mixed polyurethane foam from mattresses into a nutrient-rich liquid and added spores of the fungus Penicillium chrysogenum. The fungus produced deposits of calcium carbonate as it grew, which meshed with the foam to form a lightweight material that could withstand temperatures up to around 1000 °C. Through natural biological processes, we can give this waste a second life.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-30954-x?utm_source=Live+...
yesterday
Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa
A feast to the eyes
Intelligence or interest creation? Whatever it is, if it runs in the families, you can have pics like this.
On the left is the legendary physicist Niels Bohr,who received the Nobel Prize in 1922 for his groundbreaking research on the electron shell and quantized energy level.
Right next to him, Aage Niels Bohr (he was drawing numbers on the board ) who later won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1975.
Aage Bohr and his father, Niels, are one of the few father-son pairs to both receive Nobel Prizes in Physics, separated by 53 years.
From 1946, father and son were simultaneously doing research at the Niels Bohr Institute.
The little child in the picture who is quietly coming forward and calculating with his grandfather and father is Thomas Bohr, another legendary physicist of this family.
He is a professor at the Technical University of Denmark and his research on macroscopic fluid dynamic systems is well known.
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