Six researchers under the age of 40 recognized for their seminal contributions across diverse fields.

As a teenager, it is hard enough dealing with the emotional challenges of growing; add to it the stigma of living with HIV. Then there are researchers who aim to improve the mental health of these teenagers without ever involving them in the process! This leads to a disconnect between lived experience and research outcomes. It is a little-recognized barrier to effective mental health interventions for marginalised communities. 

Researchers from IIT Bombay study heavy polluters on the Mumbai-Pune Expressway and suggest the need for stringent policies to restrict vehicular pollution.

On 18 November 2023, the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) along with the Office of the Principal Scientific Adviser to the Government of India, in Bengaluru organised the, “Dialogue 2023: Expanding Science and Technology Horizons”.

The material converts over 87% of light falling on it into usable heat energy.

As much as we’d like to shush about it, the fact remains that mental health is an imperative component of one’s overall well-being that encompasses a wide range of emotional, psychological, and social factors. One key area of research in mental health sciences is the study of neurobiology, which focuses on the biological and physiological processes that, when gone awry, are responsible for various mental health conditions.

Processing emotions consumes attention and compromises the quality of the task at hand

Study finds that decreasing air pollution can help reduce anaemia in women of reproductive age

In an exclusive interaction with Research Matters, leading scientists, including three Infosys Prize winners and a jury member, highlighted that a greater thrust on science was the need of the hour. They were sharing their impressions on the sidelines of the inauguration of the new office of the Infosys Science Foundation (ISF) that was inaugurated recently. 

Study of plastic-lined farm ponds in orchard farming and its impact on society