Issue #6 | November 2025
🧬 Engineered Probiotics And The New-Age Onco-weapon: The Story of IISER Kolkata’s Triumph at iGEM 2025
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🖍️ Breaking The Ice: India’s First Women In Antarctica
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🎳 Themed Crossword: Women In Science
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Thermal-breach memory: Harnessing metastability for sensing to artificial neurons
🧬 Aniket Bajaj, Satyaki Kundu, Shikha Sahu, D. K. Shukla, Bhavtosh Bansal. Appl. Phys. Lett. 127, 021902 (2025)
📢 In everyday life, memories often surface in unexpected and seemingly random ways. Interestingly, various forms of memory have also been identified in the physical world—ranging from magnetic systems and shape memory alloys to emerging fields like neuromorphic computing. In these systems, "memory" refers to the dependence of a...
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