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Host: Subhra Priyadarshini; Sound editing: Prince George How would it be if the next cosmic mystery was found by volunteers peering into radio maps? And what if plants carry a 500-million-year-old switch to survive heat waves? Those are the two stories we will talk about today. Welcome to This Week in India’s Science. I’m Subhra Priyadarshini — let’s explore a community-driven cosmic discovery and...

Host: Subhra Priyadarshini; Sound editing: Prince George River Ganga’s story of drought stretched a thousand years — right now is this river’s worst chapter yet? What if the next revolution in green transport began not with batteries, but with a single converter? What if the sea’s gentlest mammals were quietly absorbing our pollution? And what if elephants made decisions the way we do — by thinkin...

Host: Subhra Priyadarshini; Sound editing: Prince George A device to transform dairy health — plus, snowflake fractals, molecular antibodies, and ageing skin in a dish. What if snowflakes could cage electrons? What if your skin could tell its age before wrinkles appear? What if fighting disease started when antibodies acted like architects, not just guards? Can a handheld gadget spot mastitis in m...

This week, we’ve got four stories that move from the microscopic world inside infants’ guts to the liquid-electrons in graphene, and from AI picking up disease early to plants healing themselves after damage. Host: Subhra Priyadarshini; Sound editing: Prince George Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Ancient crops may guide future farming — plus, a soda-can satellite sniffs pollution, a new pest threatens jasmine, and DNA ties India to Sri Lanka. Host: Subhra Priyadarshini; Sound editing: Prince George This Week in India’s Science, we’ve got four fascinating stories — from plants rooted in tradition to microscopic satellites and tiny pests — that together tell a larger story about resilience,...

Host: Subhra Priyadarshini; Sound editing: Prince George This Week in India’s Science: we’re venturing out into forests with Indian ecologists, uncovering why migrants are missing from climate plans, introducing an AI app that spots early cervical cancer, and exploring a rare airborne route in Nipah outbreaks. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Host: Subhra Priyadarshini; Sound editing: Prince George ***** This Week in India’s Science , we'll explore how AI is peeking inside plastics, how tiny raindrops teach us about storms, why India is moving away from animal testing, and how a rare form of silicon might just light up future technology. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Host: Subhra Priyadarshini; Sound editing: Prince George ***** Never miss an episode: Subscribe to the Nature India Podcast on  Apple Podcasts ,  YouTube ,  Spotify ,  Acast  or your favourite podcast app. Head  here  for the Nature India Podcast RSS feed. In today's episode: Weight gain is increasingly a shared journey in Indian homes; carbon farming could turn...

Rising retractions prompt national reform – plus, a promising snakebite antidote, rise of biofoundries and why Ladakh glows in auroras. Host: Subhra Priyadarshini; Sound editing: Prince George ***** Welcome to  This Week in India’s Science . Four big stories this episode — why rising paper retractions are forcing national reform, a potential region-specific solution for snakebite treatment, I...

Host: Subhra Priyadarshini; Sound editing: Prince George ***** Welcome to This Week in India’s Science on the Nature India podcast This week, we bring you three stories that speak to our changing world — and how we choose to understand it. We’ll start with a look inward, at the state of science journalism itself. Why is it so often reactive, underfunded, and seen as optional — a side dish in newsr...

Host: Subhra Priyadarshini; Sound editing: Prince George Episode 61: How scientists caught the heaviest black hole merger ever seen Teamwork behind GW231123 — plus, beetles reveal coinfection risks, how COVID evades antibodies, and what ageing muscles really need. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Host: Subhra Priyadarshini; Sound editing: Prince George Ultrathin material for 6G technology, endangered dolphins caught in India–Pakistan tensions, flexible snake-inspired robots and colour-changing virus sensors. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This Week in India's Science: 14 July 2025 Host: Subhra Priyadarshini; Sound editing: Prince George Lunar cooling during lockdowns, El Niño floods in Maharashtra talavs, a cancer-triggering protein and the race to save India’s ancient horseshoe crabs. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Host: Subhra Priyadarshini; Sound editing: Prince George This Week in India's Science: Vanishing Antarctic ice, a toxic toad's invasive journey, next-gen non-silicon processors and an AI enzyme-hunter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Host: Subhra Priyadarshini; Sound editing: Prince George This Week in India’s Science: Why India’s carbon offset schemes are failing communities, a Martian basin teeming with salt and ancient water, and a flexible new battery that breathes air. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A whale skeleton beneath a desert. Wild pigs tamed by ancient Indian farmers. Rogue tigers identified by their DNA. And nanoparticles that keep human blood flowing. This is This Week in India’s Science. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

From probing ancient volcanic dykes to forecast underground magma, to tracing how sunspot swirls shape solar storms, mapping climate-driven venom shifts in Russell’s vipers, and decoding monsoon-triggered marine crashes in the Bay of Bengal — this week’s top science stories as reported by Nature India. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week, we take you from the Moon’s ancient past to India’s experiments at the International Space Station, from courtroom debates on genetically modified crops to a conservation story that’s turning heads around the world. India’s scientific landscape is shifting fast — and we’re here to unpack the stories that matter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this special episode, we take you inside the Public Communication of Science and Technology  PCST 2025 Conference  in Aberdeen, Scotland, a global gathering of science communication researchers, practitioners, and educators, all asking one urgent question:  How can science communication drive meaningful change in a world full of transitions, traditions, and tensions? Against this...

Episode 52: This Week in India's Science: 26 May 2025 Cosmologist Jayant Narlikar’s legacy and the Global South’s push for culturally rooted AI Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Episode 51: This week in India's science: 19 May 2025 Self-swimming synthetic cells, surprise erosion hotspots, immune cells behind severe dengue and how ancestral diets shaped immunity. Host: Subhra Priyadarshini; Sound editing: Prince George Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Ancient forests, immune diversity map, ecological twist to drug resistance and potential cancer treatment. Host: Subhra Priyadarshini; Sound editing: Prince George Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Gene-edited rice, spacebound Indian astronaut, plastic-eating microbes, antibiotic access crisis and mitochondria revealing secrets of evolution Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Episode 48: This week in India's science: 28 April 2025 Remembering K. Kasturirangan, climate risks to mothers, India's pandemic preparedness, mosquito threats from rising seas, and a tulsi boost for goat health Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Episode 47: This week in India's science: 21 April 2025 India's gravitational wave research milestone, the wisdom of Indigenous communities in conservation and an archaeological twist to South Asia's farming origin. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.