Padmaparna Ghosh and Samanth Subramanian

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Listen: Birder, Swindler, Soldier, Spy – Colonel Meinertzhagen’s Ornithology Fraud

Padmaparna Ghosh and Samanth Subramanian 08/03/2016

A science-detective story about the biggest scam in the...

Elegant but elusive. Simulation of merging black holes showing gravitational waves. Credit: NASA/ESA/wikimedia

Listen: The Discovery of Gravitational Waves, a New Window to the Universe

Padmaparna Ghosh and Samanth Subramanian 24/02/2016

A century after Einstein’s prediction of gravitational waves, LIGO’s...

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Listen: Move Over, GPS! A Desi Navigation System is on Its Way

Padmaparna Ghosh and Samanth Subramanian 10/02/2016

ISRO recently launched the 5th of 7 satellites that...

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Listen: Heart to Heart – Transporting & Transplanting a Heart

Padmaparna Ghosh and Samanth Subramanian 27/01/2016

The Intersection finds out about the almost rudimentary coordination...

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Listen: From the Lab to the Kitchen – Resurrecting Indus Valley’s Proto Curry

Padmaparna Ghosh and Samanth Subramanian 13/01/2016

What does it take to recreate a dish that’s...

A map of fine particulate matter in the atmosphere logged by the NASA Earth Observatory in 2010-2012. Credit: NASA

Listen: All We Want for Christmas is Air We Can Breathe

Padmaparna Ghosh and Samanth Subramanian 15/12/2015

Armed with low-cost sensors, some people are trying to...

Walking on two legs might be the more energy-efficient way to do it. Credit: giuseppemilo/Flickr, CC BY 2.0

Listen: How Come Humans Walk on Two Legs, Not Four?

Padmaparna Ghosh and Samanth Subramanian 01/12/2015

Around 1.9 million years ago, human beings became fully...