Urja Kalyani

The coronavirus is nowhere near done with us. The origins of the pandemic remain a mystery, with no conclusive evidence to put the speculations to rest. But there is still work to be done. Once bit, twice shy as they say. We may not have…
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If you think that the news of cyclones hitting the western coast of India keeps on increasing year after year, you are not wrong. Tauktae signals an already perceivable change in patterns over the western coast of India. The brute force…
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Double mutant? B.1.617.? Indian variant? Shakespeare said what's in a name. It turns out a lot. India is in the throes of a malignant Covid-19 second wave, and a rapidly spreading variant of Indian origin is being speculated to be culpable…
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Midsummers and monsoon settings in a month are an ideal breeding time for the mosquitoes. That's right; those pesky little hummers are back with a bang. 100 bucks say you have already been bitten by one. Boy, do we hate the tiny creatures.…
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Along with the second wave of Covid-19, another wave is garnering attention in India- heatwave. If the current weather has got you perspiring, it’s only going to get worse from here on. The sun will be merciless to us this summer if the…
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Unless you have been living under a rock, you must have heard about NASA's perseverance mission to Mars. It was made famous by 2 recent events. First, is the confirmation of the safe landing of the perseverance rover on February 18, 2021,…
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If you are anything like me, you have zero ideas what muons are. But these little suckers are creating quite a furor in the scientific community. Experiments, conducted at the Fermilab in the US state of Illinois, have left physicists…
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It’s officially declared that humanity is 100 seconds away from its doom. The doomsday clock has had its say; it is 100 seconds to midnight. Life as you know it will cease to exist. Doomsday, what now? Let’s back it up a little. The…
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