Science

• Elizabeth and her Eight-legged Friends

  Who? Elizabeth V. Mathew What? Arachnologist Where? Union Christian College, Aluva Reported by Nandita Jayaraj “Tarantulas are beautiful,” said Elizabeth V. Mathew. We were talking about the irrational fear of spiders.  Tarantulas have enough venom to cause necrosis that results in loss of limb in the rare chance one bites you, she conceded, but most […]

  March 28th 2016

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  Natasha and Husnara Save the Mandarins

  Horticulturists attempt to bring back the local agrarian economy and save the legendary Darjeeling Mandarins

  March 21st 2016

• Nidhi Writes Banaras’s Diarrhoea Diary

  A conversation with a climate change and disease research scholar at Banaras Hindu University

  March 14th 2016

• Aruna, the Leather Detective

  A conversation with a senior biophysicist at a leather institute in Chennai

  March 7th 2016

• Finding “Faults” with Kusala Rajendran

  A geophysicist tells us about her adventures with earthquakes and tsunamis

  February 29th 2016