A new study by Jayanti Ray Mukherjee, Satyajit Oraon and Prachi Gupta reminds us that it’s not just about how many trees a city has that matters, but also what these trees are, writes Nandita Jayaraj.

Three years after the release of his course ‘Geometry of Vision’ on NPTEL e-learning platform in 2022, puppeteer-mathematician Vijay Ravikumar gears up to teach it to the undergraduates at the University for the first time.

Plant biotechnologist Beena D B opens up about her plans for the campus greenhouse at Bengaluru, while reminiscing about the greenhouses in her past.

Aditi Chandrasekar deploys her computational skills to tackle a familiar problem in catalytic chemistry— getting carbon dioxide to react.

More and more young people are getting interested in restoration projects, but not all of them understand how ecosystems work. A recent workshop organised by the university addressed this gap.

Proteep Mallik and his former student, Shravya Shenoy, BSc in Physics (2016–19) look back at the origin of the university's stargazing tradition and how far it’s come.

They could sit under a tree and admire it all day, but to make a difference ecologists Achyut Banerjee and Priya Tamma have to put their quantitative boots on, writes Nandita Jayaraj.

Divya Uma and Dinesh Rao have been researching spider behaviour for over a decade. When Kiran Marathe told them about his dancing arachnids, they jumped at the chance to investigate.

Shreyansh Tripathy, Sourabh Panda and Kinshuk Ghosh, with Kripa Gowrishankar, managed to “see” sound after recreating an old experiment called Schlieren imaging.

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

With a few pieces of wood and the resolve to go beyond theory, Ramkrishna Joshi, Anoosha C, and Durga Machavallavan built a double pendulum. And their project just won them national recognition.

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.

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!

Rema Krishnaswamy, determined to find a way to enhance the capabilities of the university microscope without spending lakhs of rupees, placed her bets on the open-source hardware movement.

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.