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26. Episode 69: A handheld gadget that spots mastitis before farmers do
06:18||Season 6, Ep. 26Host: Subhra Priyadarshini; Sound editing: Prince GeorgeA device to transform dairy health — plus, snowflake fractals, molecular antibodies, and ageing skin in a dish.What if snowflakes could cage electrons? What if your skin could tell its age before wrinkles appear? What if fighting disease started when antibodies acted like architects, not just guards? Can a handheld gadget spot mastitis in milk before farmers even see the signs?All this in This Week in India’s Science.
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25. Episode 68: Womb care shapes baby guts
07:40||Season 6, Ep. 25This week, we’ve got four stories that move from the microscopic world inside infants’ guts to the liquid-electrons in graphene, and from AI picking up disease early to plants healing themselves after damage.Host: Subhra Priyadarshini; Sound editing: Prince George24. Episode 67: Himalayan peas hold climate clues
07:24||Season 6, Ep. 24Ancient crops may guide future farming — plus, a soda-can satellite sniffs pollution, a new pest threatens jasmine, and DNA ties India to Sri Lanka.Host: Subhra Priyadarshini; Sound editing: Prince GeorgeThis Week in India’s Science, we’ve got four fascinating stories — from plants rooted in tradition to microscopic satellites and tiny pests — that together tell a larger story about resilience, discovery, and adaptation.23. Episode 66: Indian ecologists keep the field alive
06:32||Season 6, Ep. 23Host: Subhra Priyadarshini; Sound editing: Prince GeorgeThis Week in India’s Science: we’re venturing out into forests with Indian ecologists, uncovering why migrants are missing from climate plans, introducing an AI app that spots early cervical cancer, and exploring a rare airborne route in Nipah outbreaks.22. Episode 65: AI spots toxic plastics
07:38||Season 6, Ep. 22Host: Subhra Priyadarshini; Sound editing: Prince George*****This Week in India’s Science, we'll explore how AI is peeking inside plastics, how tiny raindrops teach us about storms, why India is moving away from animal testing, and how a rare form of silicon might just light up future technology.21. Episode 64: Why Indian couples gain weight together
07:16||Season 6, Ep. 21Host: Subhra Priyadarshini; Sound editing: Prince George*****Never miss an episode: Subscribe to the Nature India Podcast on Apple Podcasts, YouTube, Spotify, Acast or your favourite podcast app. Head here for the Nature India Podcast RSS feed.In today's episode: Weight gain is increasingly a shared journey in Indian homes; carbon farming could turn Indian croplands into climate allies; a nasal COVID booster may strengthen our frontline immunity and uranium’s flow into groundwater can now be predicted.20. Episode 63: India steps up fight against research misconduct
12:42||Season 6, Ep. 20Rising retractions prompt national reform – plus, a promising snakebite antidote, rise of biofoundries and why Ladakh glows in auroras.Host: Subhra Priyadarshini; Sound editing: Prince George*****Welcome to This Week in India’s Science.Four big stories this episode — why rising paper retractions are forcing national reform, a potential region-specific solution for snakebite treatment, India’s sprint into biofoundries, and why a strange sequence of solar eruptions lit up Ladakh in red auroras last year.