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Mumbai | Feb 20, 2023
Vidita Vaidya – Fiddling with Neurobiology

Vidita’s identification of molecular mechanisms related to early life stress that lead to anxiety and depression raises hopes of better medicines for these mood disorders

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Bengaluru | Apr 22, 2022
Re-building independent India through homegrown ideas

Dinesh C. Sharma’s ‘Indian Innovation - 100 ideas that transformed India’ is an inspiring book documenting all key innovations post-independence in India.

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Bengaluru | Apr 12, 2022
The charismatic Indrella ampulla at Bisle, Karnataka. Photo: Sudhira HS

Not more than two decades ago, I played with snails on rainy days and would see them crawling abundantly on plants. My friends and I would collect them in glass bottles, treating them as pets.

It appears that snails have almost vanished from our gardens. Lush green landscapes and trees have dwindled to become a few patches of green separated by tall buildings in between.

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Bengaluru | Apr 8, 2022
Studying cities and ecosystems as complex systems

Complexity theory offers opportunities for understanding these systems holistically

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Mumbai | Mar 3, 2022
Matsya–The Indigenous Autonomous Underwater Vehicle

Researchers have designed and developed an entirely indigenous low-cost autonomous underwater vehicle

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Bengaluru | Feb 14, 2022
Course corrections needed in peer review publication process

Time for reform in medical research and publishing? Indian researchers provide shocking analytical insights.

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Bengaluru | Feb 3, 2022
Dr Ângela Barreto Xavier, winner of the Infosys Prize in Humanities for 2021. Photo Credit: Infosys Science Foundation.

In an exclusive interview with Research Matters, Dr Ângela Barreto Xavier, winner of the Infosys Prize in Humanities for 2021, talked about her work on colonial and imperial history in Goa, India.

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Bengaluru | Oct 7, 2021
Comparative maps showing the extent of ONEs and wasteland categories in India;  Blackbuck - an endemic species of ONEs Original pictures of Map and Blackbuck - Authors of the paper

Research Matters caught up with Dr M D Madhusudan, one of the researchers involved in developing a high-resolution map of Open Natural Ecosystems (ONEs) in India, to gain insights into their work. Here are excerpts from the interview.

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Bengaluru | Dec 28, 2020
Popular Stories on Research Matters during 2020

An interesting year this one, with the world locked in and a virus reigning our lives. Nevertheless, there was no dearth of news in science. There was a considerable quantum of studies being reported even outside the realm of the rampant COVID-19 research. At Research Matters, we have tried our best to cover the most interesting stories in the Indian scene and listed below are our most popular stories this year. Take a look.

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Bengaluru | Feb 28, 2020
Nurturing a support system for India’s women scientists

Today is National Science Day—a day to celebrate the spirit of science and scientific temper across the county. It is a day to commemorate Sir C V Raman’s discovery of the Raman effect. This year, the theme of National Science Day is ‘Women in Science’, celebrating the contributions of women scientists to the field of science in India.

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