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The podcast series 'Science and Us' explains how we understand science around us and how it impacts us every single day. It will demystify scientific concepts and explain the scientific logic behind them.
'Science and Us' explains the understanding of scientific principles in history and culture and also help bust myths about commonly held beliefs in cultures now.
Oct 29, 2022
On October 16, 2022, Dr Dilip Mahalanabis died in Kolkata. In 1971, he pioneered the use of oral rehydration therapy in refugee camps near Kolkata saving many lives. This was the first time it was used in a cri...
34 mins
Sep 30, 2022
In 2014, skeletons were found in the well in a Gurdwara in Ajnala area of Punjab. Who do the skeletons belong to? While historical records said that these could be Indian soldiers killed by the British during t...
35 mins
Aug 31, 2022
In the past couple of decades, we have been hearing of cloudbursts in some part of the country or another. How is the Indian Meteorological Department studying this phenomenon? Why are these incidents increasin...
34 mins
Jun 30, 2022
At 2000 deaths on an average per year, lightning kills more people than any other natural event or disaster. In this episode of Science & Us, we find out how climate change leads to an increase in lightning str...
30 mins
May 30, 2022
In this episode of Science and Us, we explore how music helps autistic children communicate with others. Suno India’s Menaka Rao speaks with Dr Nandini Chatterjee Singh, senior national programme officer, with...
29 mins
Apr 30, 2022
This April, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Stalin met Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Delhi demanding that the spent fuel from India’s largest nuclear power plant in Tamil Nadu be dealt with. What has been the India...
26 mins
Mar 31, 2022
This is the second in the two-part series on how gendered understanding of science affects the way research is conducted. In this episode, Suno India’s Menaka Rao speaks to Sayantan Datta about how the certaint...
30 mins
Mar 31, 2022
March 8 is International Women’s day. We have two episodes this month on how gendered understanding of science affects the way research is conducted. The first episode describes the protests led by feminist o...
29 mins
Feb 28, 2022
What makes a healthy scalp? Scientists from the Indian Institutes of Science Education and Research (IISER), Bhopal are working on understanding the scalp microbiome of Indians, both healthy and dandruff-ridden...
22 mins
Feb 01, 2022
While scientists discovered a new snake species in the southern Indian state of Tamilnadu, little did they know that this discovery would unearth a 185-year old problem of name mix-ups done in the past. In 2016...
21 mins