In clinics and banks across the world gametes are stored in colour- coded vials, with utmost importance placed on racially matching recipients with gametes. Black parents get black eggs and sperms, and white parents get white gametes and no one raises an eyebrow. It’s only when black women choose white eggs or a white woman gets wrongly inseminated with black eggs and colour lines are crossed that the topic is deemed newsworthy.
Science relies and thrives on facts. INSA advocates the use of verifiable evidences in a logical manner to arrive at any inference.
ਵਿਗਿਅਾਨ ਕਾਂਗਰਸ ਪਿੱਛਲੇ ਸਾਲਾਂ ਵਿੱਚ ਅਾਪਣੇ ਮਕਸਦ ਤੋਂ ਭਟਕ ਚੁੱਕੀ ਹੈ। ਵਿਗਿਅਾਨੀ ੲਿਸ ਨਾਲ ਜੁੜਨ ਤੋਂ ਕਤਰਾੳੁਂਦੇ ਹਨ ਤੇ ੲਿੱਸ ਵਿੱਚ ਅਣਵਿਗਿਅਾਨਕ ਦਾਅਵੇ ਕੀਤੇ ਜਾ ਰਹੇ ਹਨ। ੲਿੱਸ ਮੰਚ ਨੂੰ 106 ਸਾਲ ਪਹਿਲਾਂ ਸ਼ੁਰੂ ਕਰਨ ਦਾ ਮਨਸ਼ਾ ਦੇਸ਼ ਵਿੱਚ ਵਿਗਿਅਾਨ ਦਾ ਪਸਾਰ ਕਰਨਾ ਸੀ। ਅੱਜ ੲਿੱਸ ਨੂੰ ਵਾਪਿਸ ਸਹੀ ਲੀਹਾਂ ਤੇ ਲਿਅਾੳੁਣ ਦੀ ਲੋੜ ਹੈ।
If the majority of the population starts believing in pseudoscience just because we chose to remain silent, and hence the society starts moving backwards, isn’t that is where the motto of practising science loses its meaning?
The Science Congress has moved away from its agenda of inculcating and nurturing scientific temper in society. The space provided by the event has been hijacked by the proponents of pseudo-science. They pretend that modern science already existed in ancient India. This is an injustice both to ancient civilisational knowledge systems as well as to modern science.
What is sci-art? Sci-art is science-inspired art form. Unlike science visualization, it may or may not represent scientific data and concepts in their most austere form. In fact, it may even enhance and (re)present the scientific knowledge by introducing artistic dimensions and provoking an engagement with the audience. Sci-art therefore deeply deals with the aspects of curiosity and exploration.
In this article on interdisciplinarity, Gautam Menon, theoretical physicist (The Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai & Homi Bhabha National Institute, Mumbai) and Sandhya P Koushika, neurobiologist (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai) provide critical insights on tackling interdisciplinary problems, gained from decade of steadfast collaboration.
India experienced a Zika Outbreak thrice in the last two years. Vikram Thakur discusses the virus and what is being done to contain it.
At the moment, we are bowing too deeply at the altar of western science, and thereby turning the pursuit of science into dogma.
Thanks to a collaboration with Carl Malamud and the Public Resource organization, fifty-three books published by the IASc are now available in high-end digital format as an ‘Indian Academy of Sciences Collection’ on the Internet Archive, and more will be added soon. These digitized versions will soon also be available on the IASc website.
