Radifah Kabir

Spider silk is gram for gram stronger than steel and tougher than Kevlar, one of the toughest materials on Earth. As Spider-Man: Brand New Day reaches Indian screens, here is the real science of why spider webs are so strong.

Ever wondered why your smartphone turns burning hot, on the charger or even while scrolling? Researchers at IIT Madras have found a solution to this problem.

Para powerlifter Jhandu Kumar won India's first medal at the Glasgow 2026 Commonwealth Games, and behind his bronze lies an IIT Madras lab called Acrophase. Its indigenous sensors and low-cost sports science are quietly changing how India finds and funds its athletes.

Aviation rules require every seat back upright for takeoff and landing. Here is what actually happens to your body if your seat stays reclined when a flight suddenly stops.

Maharashtra has banned analogue paneer, the engineered mimic built from vegetable oil and starch instead of milk, with violators facing jail and fines. Here is the food science of how real paneer forms, how the analogue copies it and how labs tell the two apart.

The Mumbai club raids counted cockroaches. But the real war is microbiological and biochemical: biofilms, cold-loving bacteria and reused frying oil. As a food technologist, I argue India's kitchens need food scientists, not just cleaner floors.

China has harvested the first rice grown in orbit aboard its Tiangong Space Station, a world first in space farming. Here is the simple science of space rice, why we grow food beyond Earth, and whether humanity can one day farm on Mars.

Carbon capture has gone from lab curiosity to global industry, from a landmark plant in Alberta to billion-dollar projects worldwide. Here is how the technology catches the carbon dioxide we cannot see, where it is buried, and whether it is worth the cost.

Richard Feynman once beat an abacus champion at cube roots using nothing but mental approximation. His trick reveals why today's AI can breeze through calculations yet still struggle with real mathematical reasoning.

Indian scientists at ICAR have decoded the complete, gap-free genome of arhar dal, also called tur dal or pigeonpea, for the first time. Here is what the T2T reference genome means for cheaper pulses, climate-resilient crops and India's push for self-reliance in dal.