The Young Scientists Program supports innovation in agritech

At the 2022 Young Scientist Program, around 30 young scientists and businesspeople from the lower Mekong nations of Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, and Vietnam have gathered to create solutions for STEAM education and workforce innovation.

The Mekong-US partnership's programme this year in...

Is Music Solely Dependent on Culture?

Love songs, dance tunes, children's bedtime songs–all these music types share patterns across cultures, finds a new study. Scientists who set up the study believe it shows commonality in how music is produced by human minds.

The results have been published in the journal Scien...

The search for the Origin of Life & Extraterrestrial Biology

Scientists computed a zoo of millions of alternate molecular genetic polymer structures, providing context for why biology encodes data on how to do it and providing potential leads for new drugs and a guide to looking for extraterrestrial biology.

Biology encodes data in DNA and RNA th...

Very less room for SC/ST scientists in biotech bodies

Scientists from regular caste (SC) and regular Tribes (ST) are grossly under-represented in scientific establishments funded by the Department of Biotechnology (DBT), a Right To information questions by a scientist has found. Several of those establishments regarding meet the government prescribe...