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Devangshu Datta: How Ohsumi empowered medicine

Thanks to Ohsumi's work, new drugs that can stimulate autophagy are being studied, and this could mean a better understanding of cancers

Devangshu Datta: Of topology and molecular machines

This year's Nobel Prizes in Physics and Chemistry relate to research in fields, the potential of which is hard to imagine

Devangshu Datta: Hello? Is anybody out there?

Several exoplanets have been identified and quite a few are in the habitable zones of stars. Some of them might just be harbouring life

Devangshu Datta: Ain't droning on for nothing

Facebook's drone Aquila and Alphabet's balloon Project Loon seek to provide cost-effective internet access in remote areas

Devangshu Datta: Unravelling Jupiter's secrets

Nasa's Mission Juno will try to gather evidence if the largest planet in the solar system is entirely gaseous or whether it has a solid core

Devangshu Datta: Looking for answers in Ligo land

Ligo or, Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave observatories, in different parts of the world aim to find out what happened at the Big Bang or just afterwards

Devangshu Datta: Planting the seeds of memory

Plants 'remember' by storing information using a type of protein called the prion, otherwise associated with neurological diseases in mammals, says a study

Devangshu Datta: Suspension of disbelief

In India, we seem to lack the scientific temper that enables one to question the authenticity and rationality of claims made by some people