After discovering a strange organism in their backyard, a group of young biologists grapple with a pandemic and climate change to keep their investigations going. 

Unidentified creature in local pond sparks biodiversity exploration and climate change awareness among biology students 

The short answer is no, but Mohan R and Nandita Jayaraj discuss some sure signs that a new era of mathematics is approaching. 

Forty years since the discovery of the Jones Polynomial, Shantha Bhushan reflects on her enduring relationship with knots and braids.

Explore how Akshara​’s boundary-defying physics project led to the inclusion of a new lab component in a biology course.

Studying crows may not change the world, but it certainly changed Aum Sarang Prabhune and Krishnapriya Tamma.

Aditi Chandrasekar looks back at her path to teaching, as she welcomes the University’s first batch of BSc Chemistry students.

People will understand the invasive species crisis much better when they know what it is costing them, says ecologist Alok Bang.

Having been around telescopes for most of his life, Proteep Mallik muses on the promises and perils of the Thirty Metre Telescope (TMT), and what it means for a country like India.

Gia Goes (BSc Physics) and Kalyani Pawar (BSc BEd), budding scientists, open up about what it is like to study science at Azim Premji University. Watch out for the Rapid Fire round!

Nandita Jayaraj explores how an undergraduate research project shaped Praveen Talari’s (BSc in Biology, 2017 – 19) journey in science.

A mathematician and a computer scientist, Mohan R and Ramanujam R, help us make sense of the fascinating mathematics of Daniel Spielman, a name that turns heads in the math world today. 

Jayanth Vyasanakere and Murthy OVSN help make sense of the hype around quantum computation by highlighting the tumultuous and spooky past of quantum mechanics.

An experimental biologist and a computational biologist, Ananya Mukherjee and Shweta Ramdas, get together to discuss the new Artificial Intelligence system that can predict the structure of proteins, and its potential relevance to their own work. 

A physicist (Kripa Gowrishankar) and a biologist (Sravanti Uppaluri) help us understand a fundamental discovery that has brought on a new paradigm of thinking about how cells organise themselves.

Antara Das delves into the mechanism behind a sleep disorder, a scientific discovery that just won the Breakthrough Prize, one of the biggest science prizes in the world. 

How high would a ball dropped from the highest building in the University campus bounce? A group of physics students and faculty members at Azim Premji University found out for themselves.

Nandita Jayaraj explores how one crafty arachnid and two inquisitive ecologists, Divya Uma and Krishnapriya Tamma, inspired Nimish Anil, an undergraduate student of biology, to pursue a life in research.

Sravanti Uppaluri talks to Nandita Jayaraj about iThink Biology, an online textbook created by the Biology faculty at Azim Premji University that invites undergraduate students to see biology in a way they never have before.

Rema Krishnaswamy, physicist and keeper of microscopes at Azim Premji University, shares ways in which microscopes are useful in Physics and how it led to the initiation of the microscopy facility at Azim Premji University, with Nandita Jayaraj.