Indian scientist

Dr Subash Babu has become the first Indian scientist to win the prestigious 2022 Bailey K Ashford Medal for his exemplary research and contributions to tropical medicine.

Dr Mahalingam Govindaraj has won the Norman E Borlaug Award for developing the world's first biofortified bajra variety called Dhanashakti, which is rich in nutrients.

NASA has shared the first image of the universe taken by the James Webb Space Telescope — the largest space telescope ever built. Did you know that 3 Indian scientists helped in making this historic photo possible?

Ibrahim Kaleel, a young scientist from NASA, shares what it takes to be a part of one of the most technologically advanced organisations in the world.

Molecular biologist and founder of IISc-incubated startup Azooka Life Sciences, Dr Fathima Benazir of Bengaluru used kitchen staples to develop 'tinto rang' - a non-toxic and low-cost dye that could be a game-changer for diagnostic tests.

For his pioneering work on ribosomes, Venkatraman Ramakrishnan won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2009.

“It was during the computations of the northeastern observations that Sikdar rushed on one morning in 1852 into the room of Sir Andrew Waugh & exclaimed, ‘Sir, I have discovered the highest mountain of the world’.

The team studied a specific plant--the Dragon’s lily head (Gladiolus dalenii)--for its unique surface property.

At a time when firecrackers are being temporarily banned, Dr Samrat Ghosh from Indian Institute of Science Education & Research (IISERM), Mohali, is developing 'green' firecrackers that are safer, smoke-free and most important– reusable.

In this research, the researchers began by downloading more than 2,500 recipes from an online cooking database.