Radifah Kabir

A Bengaluru food safety drive has sealed a luxury rooftop kitchen and seized rotten meat and expired milk. The uncomfortable truth is that a five-star rating is awarded for marble and amenities, not for what happens to your food, and your luxury dinner and the street cart outside often draw from the same cold chain.

Scientists explain how floods can be prevented in Assam, from healing stripped hills to trapping sediment, restoring wetlands and mending a cross-border warning system. But they warn that no fix survives the continued mining and deforestation of the catchment.

On August 10, FSSAI banned plastic and foil packaging for pan masala, then clarified that it is not banning the product. As a food and biotechnologist, I believe this is the smaller scandal. The bigger one is that we are agonising over the wrapper of a proven, addictive carcinogen while leaving the carcinogen itself on every counter in the country.

A SpiceJet flight from Delhi to Pune turned into a furnace on the tarmac, leaving passengers gasping for air. Here is the physics of why a parked aeroplane traps heat, why its air conditioning struggles on the ground, and why the cabin finally cools after take-off.

Thousands of ragas exist, and every one is built from the same 12 notes. Two musicologists, 250 years apart, sat down to count how many scales were even possible. The south arrived at 72 and published every one. The north arrived at 32 and kept 10. This instalment of Science of Sound follows both sums.

IIT Madras Director Professor V. Kamakoti says the institute will open a school of medical sciences and award its own medical degrees. Here is what the plan means, and the regulatory road it must travel to actually produce doctors.

Scientists at IIT Madras have built the IntelliSeat, a smart driver's seat that senses fatigue from the way a person sits and warns them before a crash. Here is how the wireless seat works, the science of muscle fatigue behind it, and why it could make India's roads safer.

A team of young scientists at IIT Madras has built ARTSENS, a five-minute test that reveals the true age of your arteries, years before a heart attack shows any sign. Through a mission called VESPA, they are now mapping the vascular health of the whole country to build India's first early-warning guidelines.

Bending over with your hands on your knees after a hard run is not a sign of weakness, it is a clever move the body makes on its own. Experts and new research reveal how the hunched position helps you breathe deeper and recover faster, and why the coaches were wrong to fight it.

At IIT Madras, Professor Ramanathan and his students 3D print musical instruments in plastic, teach AI to recognise ragas, and explore whether music can heal. Inside a lab where a mathematician is trying to make music affordable for all.