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How scientific illiteracy can harm you...

                                                                  Interactive science series “Science literacy is a vaccine against the ch…

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What might happen when you take lots of medicines...

What might happen when you take lots of medicines... One of our uncles died of liver cirrhosis ten years back. He never touched alcohol in…

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Literate people living in urban areas are too scientifically illiterate!

                            "If you are scientifically literate the world looks very different to you" Literate people living in urban are…

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Difference between common sense and scientific facts

Q: Is there a difference between common sense and scientific truth? Krishna: Common sense is a sound and prudent judgment based on a s…

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A scientist's way of thinking

Q: Why don’t many different kinds of doctors, scientists and/or pharmacists care about anybody’s feeling, thought, intelligence, knowledge,…

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How desiccant canisters function to remove moisture

Q: How do desiccant canisters function to remove moisture from their surroundings? Krishna: A desiccant is a hygroscopic (readily taking u…

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Fast fashion may seem cheap, but it's taking a costly toll on the planet and on millions of young customers

Fast fashion is everywhere—in just about every mall, in the feeds of influencers on social media promoting overconsumption, and in ads co…

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Only by returning carbon to the ground is net zero truly possible

Negotiations at the 29th Conference of Parties (COP29) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) are enter…

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Science and ethics: Is it ever OK for scientists to experiment on themselves?

A virologist named Beata Halassy recently made headlines * after publishing a report of successfully treating her own breast cancer by sel…

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Why auroras have different colours

Why May 2024's aurora appeared a magenta colour over Japan? Around the world, the historic geomagnetic superstorm of late spring 2024 inspi…

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Why do dead bodies float in the water?

Q: Why do dead bodies float in the water? Krishna: That depends.  Dead bodies in the water usually tend to sink at first, but later they te…

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Science and Ethics

When I was doing my masters course, during one of our semester practical exams I was asked to do a physiology experiment. I was asked to do…

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Animals that behave differently in moonlight

Once every spring, a few days after the full moon, corals of the great barrier reef release eggs and sperm simultaneously—a phenomenon so s…

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