Millions of Indian households test their festive khoya with iodine, a palm rub or a burn test each Diwali, and these tests genuinely work. We argue that the adulterants in fake sweets that actually cause organ damage pass through undetected, and a fresh Maharashtra FDA raid shows exactly how that gap gets exploited.
Two hundred people applied for 50 spots at a party built around unapproved compounds. Then a regulator asked one simple question nobody wanted to answer: what exactly is in the vial? A satirical look at the night wellness culture tried to skip its own science homework.
FSSAI has opened three cases against Nestle India over claims on NAN Excella and Lactogen Pro, and a biotin shortfall found in a separate follow-up formula. We explain why a baby cannot read a label, question a claim or choose another meal, making this one category where marketing and harm sit dangerously close.
This country was promised one trick: anything, anywhere, within 10 minutes. A raid on a shed in Bengaluru has now exposed the trick behind the trick.
You hear the chime before you have even lowered your phone. In that flicker of time, your money has already crossed the country, been questioned by two banks, and returned with an answer. This is the science of how it happens, and why, every so often, it does not.
In an exclusive conversation with India Today Digital, IIT Kanpur said the institute will launch higher medical degrees before an MBBS, alongside a 500-bed hospital opening by March 2027.
Flying taxis, homegrown rockets, a human brain mapped cell by cell and a cancer vaccine for Indian bodies. After a week living inside IIT Madras, a forest campus full of deer, we ask whether this is a glimpse of the university of the future.
Scientists at IIT Madras have found cancer mutations unique to Indian patients, ones the world's imported cancer drugs were never designed to fight. Here is what the Bharat Cancer Genome Atlas has uncovered, and why it could change how India treats cancer.
The alcohol in rum, whisky and vodka is the same molecule. What separates them, and what India's food regulator says Old Monk got wrong, is a fraction of a per cent nobody thinks to question.
A post boldly claims that vegans eat the most ultra-processed food. The data tells a quieter, far more interesting story. As a food technologist, I can tell you the problem was never the absence of meat. It is what we build to replace it.
In a Chennai workshop, a mridangam maker showed how the drum's singing tone is built by hand. The process reflects the acoustic principles C.V. Raman explained in 1920.
That trickle of tea running down the outside of your cup has a name, the teapot effect, and it puzzled physicists for over 65 years. We explain why liquids cling to a rim, and the everyday chai trick that makes them pour cleanly.
IIT Madras director Professor V. Kamakoti says the institute is working on precision agriculture to grow rice and sugarcane on far less water, work rooted in Mission Pravartak. Here is why India's rice habit drains so much water, and how smarter farming could ease the crisis.
The industry has learnt a new trick. It no longer hides what is in your food. It simply gives the same chemical a friendlier name, and lets you thank it for the honesty.
Indian scientists have found that a single, perfectly timed operation can delay, or even prevent, the sudden collapse of quantum entanglement. The discovery, led by the Raman Research Institute, could help make future quantum computers and communication networks far more reliable, without any new hardware.
A detector deep underground may have glimpsed dark matter, the invisible 85 per cent of the universe. Here is why every past detection collapsed, and why scientists are treating this new hint with rare and revealing caution.
This festival season, India is destroying tonnes of adulterated sweets, and rightly so. But as a food technologist, I keep noticing what the raids can never see: the perfectly legal, exquisitely engineered snack that harms far more of us, far more slowly, and never fails a single test.
Those endless childhood summers are gone, and the years now seem to vanish in a blink. Here is the science of why time feels faster as we age, and the simple habits that can gently slow it down again.
At IIT Madras, Professor Ramanathan and his students 3D print musical instruments in plastic, teach AI to recognise ragas, and explore whether music can heal. Inside a lab where a mathematician is trying to make music affordable for all.
Indian physicist Deepak Dhar has won the 2026 Dirac Medal for showing how a simple sandpile can explain earthquakes, avalanches and much more. Meet the genius who found hidden order inside chaos.
