(image caption) Greater adjutant storks work shoulder-to-shoulder with ragpickers at the landfill site. The storks pick out food, while ragpickers search for plastic and other recyclables in the mixed waste. Photo: Soumya Prasad
The greater adjutant stork, …
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On February 28, India celebrates National Science Day. The date was chosen to commemorate C.V. Raman’s discovery of Raman scattering, the optical effect named for him and which earned …
In 1999, while the software field was booming and the American dream shone bright, a young computer scientist was packing her bags back to India. “When I told my advisor in the US that …
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At the first of its kind science conference, “Pressing for Progress” (PFP) DST representative Vandana Singh announced that DST will accredit Indian universities based on a gender audit similar to the UK’s Athena-SWAN to incentivise …
By Bornika Roy
Manidipa believes she’s living the dream – she has a supportive home and great scientific freedom at the Kusuma School of Biosciences at IIT-Delhi. Having trained as a chemist, she became interested in studying the structural biology …
By Mrinal Shah
“You dream only about things that you are exposed to”, said Archana Sharma, a senior scientist at the European Organization for Nuclear …
Image: Jocelyn Bell Burnell delivers the keynote speech at ‘Inspirefest 2015’. She discovered pulsars, but was ignored for the Nobel Prize in 1974. However, one half of this Nobel Prize was awarded to her male supervisor for the discovery of …
