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The problem of cleaning up the lakes to acquire drinking water, they discovered, did not just lie with tackling pollution but in the lack of awareness about the condition.

Kusala Rajendran is an outstanding earth scientist and seismologist who was honoured with India’s first ever ‘National Award for Woman Scientist’ for Ocean Sciences and Technology and Atmospheric Sciences Technology last month.

The Better India talked to Dr Shanthanu Chakravarthy, a doctoral scholar at IISc, who pursued the design, prototyping, control, haptics, and simulation of an endoscopy simulator.

Among the earliest generations of Indian women to study at a modern science institution, Violet Bajaj lived through incredible times – World War II and India’s struggle for independence – in her twenties!

Kolkata's Ishan Agarwal has aced multiple tests, with perfect scores-an unheard of feat indeed!

Even though there has been artificial photosynthesis before, there has not been such a development in efficiency of the procedure.

The ‘LifeBox,’ according to the IISc researchers, is a system that extends the preservation time of the organ, specifically the heart for now, and allows for increased travel time and distances.

On its centenary in 2008, India Post released two commemorative postage stamps.

While the explosion of humour after Tripura CM's "internet in Mahabharata era" comment maybe well-warranted, few of us actually know the story of India first went online.

Here is the little-known story of Udupi Ramachandra Rao, visionary space scientist, ex-ISRO chief and the architect of India’s first satellite Aryabhata.