Lakshmi Supriya

She is a freelance science writer based in Bengaluru.

Telangana, Bt cotton, agrochemicals, pesticides, GM crops, pink bollworm, bollworm pest, cotton yield, dystopia, Monsanto, Nuziveedu,

Small Study Examines How Cotton Farming Produced ‘Toxic Landscape’ in Telangana

Lakshmi Supriya 21/06/2019

There seems to be a mismatch between what administrators...

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Crickets of Both Sexes Equally at Risk of Becoming Prey When Looking for Mates

Lakshmi Supriya 28/04/2019

A new study questions the belief that male insects...

elephants, Asian elephants, extinction, climate change, charismatic species, habitat fragmentation, water availability, human-animal conflicts, Himalayas, floodplains, land use change,

Asian Elephants May Lose up to Half Their Habitats by Century’s End: Study

Lakshmi Supriya 02/04/2019

Elephants could lose 42% of the total land available...

Dialister, Coprococcus, depression, anxiety, mood disorders, bioinformatics, Crohn's disease, faecal transplant, psychobiotics, antidepressants, serotonin, SSRI, autism, central nervous system, human gut, gut microbiota, gut microbes,

Depressed People Have Low Levels of Two Bacteria in Their Guts: Study

Lakshmi Supriya 18/02/2019

They were missing even in people who were on...

alien life, Earth, Mars, origin of life, Earth's moon, Rice University, sulphur, oxygen, carbon, Earth core, carbonaceous chondrites, silicates,

Ingredients That Led to Life on Earth Could’ve Come From a Cosmic Accident

Lakshmi Supriya 04/02/2019

Life on Earth may have begun with a bang...

academic performance, Algeria, Finland, gender inequality, Indian Institute of Science, leaky pipeline, Norway, PISA survey 2015, Programme for International Student Assessment, Qatar, Rohini Godbole, sexual harassment, Sweden, UAE, women in STEM

Women Won’t Study STEM Just Because They Live in a More Gender-Equal Country

Lakshmi Supriya 08/01/2019

The gap in science education between the genders is...

Open Science Framework, Registered Reports, peer review, replication crisis, scientific research, John Ioannidis, biomedical research, scientific papers, conflict of interest, data sharing, experimental protocols, independent verification, scientific publishing, scientometrics

Biomedical Papers Are More Transparent and Reproducible Today Than Before

Lakshmi Supriya 27/11/2018

Many efforts are being made to improve scientific research's...