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Sea-Level Rise: How Melting Ice Reaches India’s Coastal Cities
Melting ice thousands of kilometres away is raising seas along India's coasts. Here is how sea-level rise reaches Mumbai, Chennai and Kolkata.
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Why Do We Age? The Biology of Growing Old
Ageing is damage outpacing repair across a dozen interlocking processes. What science knows about why we grow old, and whether it can…
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Urban Heat Islands: Why Indian Cities Run Hotter Than Their Surroundings
Indian cities can run several degrees hotter than the countryside around them. Here is the science of urban heat islands and how…
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How Eyes See: The Optics of Human Vision
A living camera with 100 million sensors, focusing light onto a neural computer. From photons to perception: the optics and neuroscience of…
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The Science of Delhi’s Winter Smog: How Stubble Smoke and Weather Trap Pollution
Every winter Delhi chokes under a thick grey blanket. Here is how stubble smoke, traffic and weather combine to trap pollution over…
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DNA Explained: How Your Genome Builds You
Three billion DNA letters in every cell encode 20,000 protein recipes. How the double helix is read, regulated and inherited, and what…
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Coral Bleaching: What Marine Heatwaves Do to Reefs, From Lakshadweep to the Great Barrier Reef
Marine heatwaves are bleaching corals from Lakshadweep to the Great Barrier Reef. Here is what extreme heat does to reefs, and if…
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Pain: Why It Hurts and How Your Body Signals Danger
Pain feels local but is built entirely in the brain. From nociceptors to chronic pain and the opioid crisis: the neuroscience of…
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Carbon Capture Explained: Can Technology Actually Remove CO2 From the Air?
Machines that pull CO2 from the air sound like pure science fiction. Here is how carbon capture really works, and whether it…
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How Neural Networks Learn: The Maths Behind Artificial Intelligence
Modern AI is calculus at colossal scale: networks learning by adjusting billions of weights. The elegant mathematics behind backpropagation and deep learning.