A Very Materialistic Vision
30 Dec 2025 under Features
Pavan Nukala’s lab delves deep into how nanomaterials behave A big portion of our lives is centralised around tiny devices: computer chips, LEDs, batteries, CDs, and so on. Materials at the nanometric scale – 1 millionth of a millimetre – show exotic phenomena that can be used to make our lives easier. How does one […]
A Sticky Solution for Enhanced Pesticide Deposition
12 Dec 2025 under Focus
Water droplets can slide down or bounce off a leaf’s surface because it has a waxy hydrophobic (water-repellent) coating. However, this poses a challenge to farmers when pesticides are sprayed, as the droplets can bounce off plants without sticking to them, and contaminate soil and water. “Around 50% of the pesticides are wasted this way,” […]
Making Quantum Computers Using a Packet of Light
01 Nov 2025 under Highlights
A quantum computer employs purely quantum phenomena, like superposition and entanglement, to surpass the capabilities of a classical computer. Superposition allows subatomic particles to be in two or more different states simultaneously, and entanglement entails two or more particles linked so strongly that any effect on one influence the other instantaneously, even across far distances. […]