A weird thing happened in scientific publishing during COVID. And it hasn’t gone away. Publications went up 30-50%. And responses to requests to review went down 30-50%. I know the actual statistic…

Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) is a prominent candidate for a future human pandemic arising from a zoonotic spillover event. Its best-known strain is H5N1, with South- or South-East Asia a l...

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Discover how Nobel laureate Ardem Patapoutian's research on PIEZO channels revolutionizes our understanding of human biology.

Recent reports on capacity constraints faced by the state pollution control boards have revealed serious systemic issues—problematic board structure and composition, lack of competence in the boards’ ...

Much of the reporting on concerns around HMPV virus happens only because the combination of the words ‘China’ and ‘virus’ attracts inordinate attention, says Gautam Menon professor at Ashoka...

BharatSim is an open-source agent-based modelling framework for the Indian population. It can simulate populations at multiple scales, from small communities to states. BharatSim uses a synthetic popu...

A personal essay on regime change in Syria.