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Cogito137 - TheThought Capsule Cogito137 is a web-based, multilingual and multimedia, scicomm platform, hosted by the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Kolkata.

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Scientists have devised a new method to detect bacterial contamination in food and water samples - using gold nanoparti...
11/04/2022

Scientists have devised a new method to detect bacterial contamination in food and water samples - using gold nanoparticles!

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Obesity is a huge problem globally, related to many chronic diseases and higher mortality. This science article discusse...
11/04/2022

Obesity is a huge problem globally, related to many chronic diseases and higher mortality. This science article discusses a study published in The Journal of Nutrition that found an association between coffee consumption and fat distribution and percentage fat in adult women.

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This article focuses on the air pollution aspect which influences COVID-19 mortality rate. It sheds light on how even a ...
07/04/2022

This article focuses on the air pollution aspect which influences COVID-19 mortality rate. It sheds light on how even a minor increase in the number of harmful air pollutants can exacerbate COVID-19's damaging consequences.

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Gadgets have taken a large portion of our lives and made us comfy. Smartwatches, a fashion gadget, can do many more thin...
07/04/2022

Gadgets have taken a large portion of our lives and made us comfy. Smartwatches, a fashion gadget, can do many more things than time-telling. This article unravels the outcomes of an interesting study that gives a proof-of-concept of smartwatches as better health predictors.

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This pandemic has confined us to our homes and abruptly interrupted our daily social gatherings. It might have been a li...
06/04/2022

This pandemic has confined us to our homes and abruptly interrupted our daily social gatherings. It might have been a little easier for people with pets at home. This article focuses on pet dogs and how our furry roommates perceive us, and how that might differ from their perception of other companion dogs living in the same house.

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Fat is an essential component of our diet. But its overconsumption can make us obese and create more problems if one has...
02/04/2022

Fat is an essential component of our diet. But its overconsumption can make us obese and create more problems if one has diseases like diabetes. Exercising is one of the solutions. It has been shown that weight loss decreases the severity of diabetes in the patients1. But the impact of exercise varies from person to person. So, how do you know up to what extent your body is burning fat while exercising?

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Have you ever come across a situation when time seems to fly? Especially when we are doing something we really enjoy. Bu...
01/04/2022

Have you ever come across a situation when time seems to fly? Especially when we are doing something we really enjoy. But contrary to this, when we are doing something that doesn’t interest us, time seems to drag. Why does the feeling of time flying away too fast or moving too slow exactly happen? This article discusses how our brain perceives and processes this distortion.

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The coronavirus pandemic has turned our lives upside-down. Life as we knew it, changed considerably since the onset of t...
27/03/2022

The coronavirus pandemic has turned our lives upside-down. Life as we knew it, changed considerably since the onset of the lockdowns and mobility restrictions. Have you wondered whether its effects on our environment could be positive or negative?

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For decades, astronomers, physicists, and cosmologists have hypothesized that the universe is made up of an exotic mater...
23/03/2022

For decades, astronomers, physicists, and cosmologists have hypothesized that the universe is made up of an exotic material known as "dark matter,” which explains the strange gravitational behaviour of galaxies and galaxy clusters.

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Cancer is a leading cause of death world-wide and has accounted for nearly 10 million deaths in 2020 alone, according to...
19/03/2022

Cancer is a leading cause of death world-wide and has accounted for nearly 10 million deaths in 2020 alone, according to the Inter-national Agency for Research on Cancer, World Health Organization
(WHO). Nature has bestowed us with an enormous diversity of medicinal plants. The different plant parts such as leaves, roots, stems and flowers serve as a diverse source of chemicals used to develop various medicinally important products. In recent years, a tremendous outburst has been seen in the world market of herbal medications.
In a recent study, scientists have suggested the
possibility of exploiting orchids for the creation
of new anticancer drugs.

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People have been sharing spaces with large mammals like elephants and leopards for eternity in northern West Bengal. But...
16/03/2022

People have been sharing spaces with large mammals like elephants and leopards for eternity in northern West Bengal. But over the last few decades, this region has been reporting one of the highest human-wildlife negative interactions globally. A group of scientists are trying to find how the coexistence of human and wildlife can be promoted in this pristine yet modified landscape.

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A young research scholar’s point of view on the plight of the careers and mental health of his peers and colleagues, as ...
16/03/2022

A young research scholar’s point of view on the plight of the careers and mental health of his peers and colleagues, as the pandemic ravaged the globe.

COVID-19 has changed the way we interact in this and with this world. It has affected jobs, disrupted the global economy in the process, killed millions, and negatively impacted billions of lives. While the utter devastation brought down on us by this harrowing pandemic has been widely cultured by the media for more than a year, the problems faced by early-career researchers in a developing country like India hasn’t received enough attention.

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Chymosin: The milk coagulating enzymeWidely used in the cheese-making industry, chymosin is an aspartic protease that sp...
08/02/2022

Chymosin: The milk coagulating enzyme

Widely used in the cheese-making industry, chymosin is an aspartic protease that specifically hydrolyzes the K-casein present in the milk leading to milk coagulation. In this video, we explore the chemistry of the enzyme and its action mechanism.

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The video was submitted as a part of an assignment for course CH4107: Chemical Perspectives of Biological Pathways.

Submitted by:
Shreyash Pramod Borkar ( )(18MS024)
DBS, IISER Kolkata

Course Instructor:
Professor Subhajit Bandyopadhyay
Professor Amit Basak
DCS, IISER Kolkata

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Well hello there, folks! 😄It is our pleasure to present to you all what possibly is the most 𝗲𝗻𝗴𝗮𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗴, most 𝘀𝗼𝗽𝗵𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗲...
02/02/2022

Well hello there, folks! 😄

It is our pleasure to present to you all what possibly is the most 𝗲𝗻𝗴𝗮𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗴, most 𝘀𝗼𝗽𝗵𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗱, most 𝘃𝗶𝘃𝗶𝗱 piece we have created so far: 𝘁𝗵𝗲 2nd 𝗮𝗻𝗻𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝗲𝗱𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗼𝗳 𝗖𝗼𝗴𝗶𝘁𝗼𝟭𝟯𝟳 - 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗜𝘀𝘀𝘂𝗲 11!
Releasing on 28th February 🔥
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Hello everyone!!!!!October 𝙞𝙨𝙨𝙪𝙚 𝘼𝙡𝙚𝙧𝙩!We have released our December issue 10 in our website (link given below) with som...
18/01/2022

Hello everyone!!!!!

October 𝙞𝙨𝙨𝙪𝙚 𝘼𝙡𝙚𝙧𝙩!

We have released our December issue 10 in our website (link given below) with some amazing article. Our this issue features Nobel Prize Awards and many spectacular articles.

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Best Friends or Best Parents? How Pet Dogs Perceive UsThis pandemic has confined us to our homes and abruptly interrupte...
20/09/2021

Best Friends or Best Parents? How Pet Dogs Perceive Us

This pandemic has confined us to our homes and abruptly interrupted our daily social gatherings. It might have been a little easier for people with pets at home. This article focuses on pet dogs and how our furry roommates perceive us, and how that might differ from their perception of other companion dogs living in the same house.

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Artificial Intelligence is rife with contradictions. It is a powerful tool that is also surprisingly limited in terms of...
08/09/2021

Artificial Intelligence is rife with contradictions. It is a powerful tool that is also surprisingly limited in terms of its current capabilities. And, while it has the potential to improve human existence, at the same time, it threatens to deepen social divides and put millions of people out of work. So Artificial Intelligence is a product or a Consumer?
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This is an article from our August 2021 issue, which is an Art-science themed series in collaboration with The Decadents Magazine

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