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Everything you learned about getting nutrition from plants is wrong
People have always eaten plants. For a long time, everyone thought we couldn't break down a major plant constituent, cellulose. Cellulose is in plant…
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Anirban Mahapatra
Plastics are everywhere and they may be slowly killing us
I hate to be the bearer of bad news, especially on a beautiful day like today when you are probably enjoying cricket, discussing the second Dune movie…
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Anirban Mahapatra
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Lose weight by eating potatoes and rice
The secret to great tea, the bugs causes blindness, and the unending war between predator viruses and zombie bacteria
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Anirban Mahapatra
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February 2024

Disease X: How can we stop the next pandemic?
Plus ants that make their own Antibiotics. Your brain changes shape based on what you do.
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Anirban Mahapatra
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November 2023

A new vaccine for a newish viral disease
Plus microbes that eat plastic and India's health time bomb.
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Anirban Mahapatra
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October 2023

August 2023

Why should India care about space?
Also, is the brain the ultimate music streaming platform?
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Anirban Mahapatra
The drugs on the market that will change everything
Also, have we cracked Long COVID? The biodiversity hotspot under our feet. Plus, an Australian medical mystery.
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Anirban Mahapatra
Mysterious green (and non-green) invaders
Also, why the malaria vaccine being rolled out is a big deal.
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Anirban Mahapatra
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June 2023

How Himalayan communities thrive in breathless heights
And can AI create the next antibiotic?
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Anirban Mahapatra
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Fake science and AI
A tragedy of trains. And who needs evolution and the periodic table?
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Anirban Mahapatra
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