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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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How much CO₂ does your flight really produce? How to know if carbon footprint claims are accurate

When two people book the same flight, they can get wildly different carbon footprints from online calculators. Many carbon calculators leav…

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1 Nov 20
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The importance of snakes in our eco-systems

Crawly creepy creatures. Big eyes and protruding tongues. Hissing sounds and hoods in ready to attack poses. What would people do if they c…

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5 Nov 19
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Humans are evolved for nature, not cities, say anthropologists

This mismatch is creating lots of problems for us and we need to change our thinking and behaviour. A new paper by evolutionary anthropolog…

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1 Nov 19
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Phytomining: A fern that makes rare earth elements!

Credit: Environmental Science & Technology (2025). DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.5c09617 Scientists have discovered a fern from South China…

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1 Nov 14
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Vaccine woes

Recent measles outbreak in the California state of the US ( now spread to other states too) tells an interesting story. Vaccines are not re…

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17 Nov 12
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How scientists are hacking bacteria to treat cancer, self-destruct, then vanish without a trace

Bacteria are rapidly emerging as a new class of "living medicines" used to kill cancer cells. We're still a long way from a "cure" f…

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1 Nov 11
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Deepavali fireworks cause more distress than happiness!

Oh, we have been celebrating  Deepavali with fun and happiness minus fireworks for the past several years! Before somebody asks me 'How can…

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4 Nov 5
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Getting rid of plastic the natural way

Headlines in the media screaming: Humans dump 8 million tonnes of plastics into the oceans each year. That's five grocery bags of plastic f…

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14 Nov 5
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Why do bats spread so many diseases?

Q: Why do bats spread so many diseases?  Let us start with positive things. In reality, bats are truly remarkable. Bats support our agricul…

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2 Nov 5
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Eureka! This universe is not a computer simulation!

Mathematical proof debunks the idea that the universe is a computer simulation Didn’t know how to disprove this, but I always wanted to: It…

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1 Oct 31
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