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Anirban Mahapatra

Anirban Mahapatra

Articles by Anirban Mahapatra

Scientifically Speaking: Do early winners become winning adults?

Early success may not guarantee lifelong achievement, a new study finds, raising questions about India’s obsession with toppers, rankings and early specialization. (Unsplash)

Updated on Jul 8, 2026 17:31 IST

Scientifically Speaking: The animal that can survive five years without eating

Deep-sea isopods live on the seafloor across the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian oceans. (Reuters file)

Updated on Jun 25, 2026 10:44 IST

Scientifically Speaking: Plastics are inside us, but we can reduce exposure

Plastic reaches us mainly through two routes: we eat it and we breathe it. (Image sourced from Britannica)

Updated on Jun 15, 2026 13:46 IST

Scientifically Speaking: Microplastics are inside us, but we can reduce exposure

Plastic is no longer only an environmental problem. It is found inside us.

Updated on Jun 14, 2026 09:06 IST

Scientifically Speaking: A pill takes on pancreatic cancer

A bottle of daraxonrasib, Revolution Medicine’s pancreatic cancer drug. (Reuters)

Updated on Jun 2, 2026 09:33 IST

Scientifically Speaking: The evolving map of Cholera

Cholera has caused seven pandemics in the last two centuries. (Representative file photo)

Updated on May 25, 2026 07:32 IST

Scientifically Speaking: The fake disease that fooled AI

The danger we face is not only that chatbots can be fooled, but also that people may stop exercising their own judgment. (Representive file photo)

Updated on May 20, 2026 09:30 IST

Scientifically Speaking: Will AI diagnose your next disease?

AI systems outperform doctors in diagnostic tests, but experts warn real-world care needs human judgment, accountability and patient interaction. (Shutterstock)

Updated on May 3, 2026 10:38 IST

Scientifically Speaking: Do firstborns really do better because of germs?

For representational purposes only.

Updated on Apr 27, 2026 12:56 IST

Scientifically Speaking: An ancient Tamil visitor in Egypt’s Valley of the Kings

Tamil, Sanskrit inscriptions in Egypt tombs uncover ancient Indian travellers, highlighting global trade links and missed discoveries in historic records. (AFP Photo)

Updated on Apr 18, 2026 10:13 IST

Scientifically Speaking: The Plastic Pharmacy

How engineered bacteria are turning plastic bottles into medicines. (Image sourced from WebMD)

Updated on Apr 8, 2026 09:41 IST

Scientifically Speaking: Can a gut microbe alter human memory?

The experiments began by letting young mice pick up microbes from older animals. (Representative file photo)

Updated on Mar 19, 2026 09:38 IST

Scientifically Speaking: The gene in rice that could cut use of fertilizers

What makes the finding immediately useful is that there is already a version of this gene in existing rice varieties. (File photo)

Updated on Mar 10, 2026 11:01 IST

Scientifically Speaking: AI is writing code and changing jobs. Who benefits?

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Updated on Feb 26, 2026 12:09 IST

Scientifically Speaking: Genes matter more for longevity than previously thought

About two million lives a year are lost to air pollution-related diseases in India. (HT PHOTO)

Updated on Feb 2, 2026 03:05 IST

Scientifically Speaking: Indian varsities fare poorly on global ranking

China’s research capacity has expanded steadily and deliberately. (Representative file photo)

Updated on Jan 20, 2026 13:46 IST

The obesity drug paradox: Stop taking them, and the weight comes back

Sales in the weight-loss segment rose 115% in 2025 in India. (HT PHOTO/FILE)

Updated on Jan 12, 2026 13:51 IST

Vanity in a vial: The perils of a raging, and untested, peptide health trend

The US Anti-Doping Agency has banned several popular injectable peptides, warning of cardiac risks. (Shutterstock)

Updated on Dec 25, 2025 22:36 IST

Scientifically Speaking: The Vanity Injection! Why people love dubious shots

The professional elite in Silicon Valley and Manhattan no longer view diseases as biological conditions. (Representative file photo)

Updated on Dec 23, 2025 04:16 IST

Scientifically Speaking: More about gut microbes which are linked to good health

This is why India needs its own microbiome map, and we may be getting one soon. (Freepik | Representative file photo)

Updated on Jan 29, 2026 05:38 IST

Scientifically Speaking: How AI can hunt for ghosts in Earth’s oldest rocks

The team, led by astrobiologist Michael Wong and geologist Robert Hazen, did not discover a new fossil. (Adobe stock photo)

Updated on Dec 5, 2025 09:49 IST

Scientifically Speaking: A heart drug disguised as a weight-loss injection

Semaglutide reduced major cardiovascular events by 20 percent regardless of how much weight patients lost. (Unsplash)

Updated on Nov 19, 2025 10:59 IST

Scientifically Speaking: Could speaking more languages be the secret to youth?

The more languages people spoke, the stronger the protection from aging. (Representative photo/ Shutterstock)

Updated on Nov 13, 2025 11:01 IST

Scientifically Speaking: How AI is invading scientific journals

Some uses of AI, for example to polish language, may be acceptable to scientific journals, but others, like making up data and figures, are clearly fraudulent. (Representative photo)

Updated on Nov 7, 2025 11:40 IST

Scientifically Speaking: The wrinkled rodent that forgot how to age

These creatures can survive without oxygen for nearly twenty minutes and often die not of disease. (Getty Images | Washington Post)

Updated on Oct 13, 2025 10:12 IST

Scientifically Speaking | What if your health could be forecast like weather?

The system, called Delphi-2M, represents the most ambitious attempt yet to use generative AI to map the arc of human disease. (Representational image)

Updated on Sep 25, 2025 13:11 IST

Scientifically Speaking: Could lack of lithium in the brain trigger Alzheimer’s?

Lithium has been used to treat bipolar disorder for decades, and earlier studies had hinted it might protect against dementia. (Representative photo)

Updated on Sep 18, 2025 06:50 IST

Scientifically Speaking: How to penalise research fraud without harming science

India has seen a rise in research paper retractions in recent years. (Representative photo)

Updated on Sep 7, 2025 11:01 IST

Scientifically Speaking: You are what your gut microbes eat

Failed drug trials have also nudged pharmaceutical companies to focus on the microbes inside us. (Representative file photo)

Updated on Aug 25, 2025 14:09 IST

Scientifically Speaking: Fake scientific research on the rise, says study

The authors estimate that the number of suspected paper-mill products is doubling every 18 months, compared with 15 years for the scientific enterprise as a whole. (Illustration: Ben Denzer)

Updated on Aug 13, 2025 08:18 IST

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