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Teenager from India invents device that can convert breath to speech Sixteen-year-old Arsh Shah Dilbagi has developed a new technology called ‘TALK’, which is a cheap and portable device to help people who are physically incapable of speaking express themselves.

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Artificial cells take their first steps Using only a few ingredients, a biophysicist and his team have successfully implemented a minimalistic model of the cell that can change its shape and move on its own. They describe how they turned this goal into reality in a new article.

Iranian is first woman to nab highest prize in maths Maryam Mirzakhani is among four young researchers to win Fields Medals, awarded every four years.

How India's Elite Undergraduate Institutions Are Suppressing Innovation And Leadership "Instead go to a school that gives you space to volunteer in some local organization, work on research projects, and explore the subjects that interest you"

Colombian grad student faces jail for sharing a thesis online Herpetologists outraged by prospect of criminal prosecution; others see cautionary tale

Key to aging immune system is discovered The immune system ages and weakens with time, making the elderly prone to life-threatening infection and other maladies, and scientists have now discovered a reason why.

Illuminating the dark side of the genome Almost 50 percent of our genome is made up of highly repetitive DNA, which makes it very difficult to be analysed. In fact, repeats are discarded in most genome-wide studies and thus, insights into this part of the genome remained limited. Scientists from the Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology an…

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Today is the birthday of Rosalind Elsie Franklin (25 July 1920 – 16 April 1958), one of the pioneering X-ray crystallographers of the 20th Century.

Her work was crucial for Crick and Watson's discovery of DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid), the fundamental basis of storing biological i.e. genetic, information.

Until recently, Franklin's scientific contributions to the discovery of the double helix was often overlooked as her work was published third, in the series of three DNA Nature articles.

You can read more about her contributions in this Physics Today article from 2003. http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1570771

Mumbai: Leopard Seen at IIT Campus, Area Cordoned Off Indefinitely - NDTV A leopard was seen today in the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) campus in Mumbai. Officials claim that the leopard may still be present within the premises.

How a simple neutron beam splitting experiment is questioning everything we thought we knew about reality: http://ow.ly/zxEZy