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Complete archive of all Articles, Interviews and Insight Digest publications from InScight, sorted by year and category.

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2025

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Articles

The Physics of Forgetting: When Information Becomes Heat  |   Tanmoy Pandit   |   Nov 01

From Waves To Leaves: Story of the First Biophysicist  |   Gautam Basu   |   Oct 25

A Story of Ice or Fire: How Does Temperature Affect Body Size in Insects  |   Atri Majumdar   |   Oct 21

Engineered Probiotics And The New-Age Onco-weapon: The Story of IISER Kolkata’s Triumph at iGEM 2025  |   Sharanya Chatterjee, Madhura Theng   |   Oct 16

My Journey with the Fruit Fly: Decoding Neurodegeneration in Lysosomal Storage Disease  |   Apurba Das   |   Oct 12

Cell Death Makes Living Easier  |   Chandrima Shaha   |   Aug 29

Cosmic music of the Sun: Rossby and other inertial modes  |   Suprabha Mukhopadhyay   |   Jun 10

A Stranger Crashes the Party: Decoding the White Matter Wipeout  |   Mahua Maulik   |   Jun 06

BAW 2025 – Shaping the Next Generation of Biomedical Scientists  |   Bishal Hazra, Jayasri Das Sarma   |   Jun 06

Topology in Action: From Doughnuts to Quantum Devices  |   Sukalyan Deb   |   Jun 06

The Chemical Ballet: How Volatiles Orchestrate Pest and Predator Behaviour  |   Sayantani Nath   |   Jun 03

Solar Energy and Weather  |   Dr. Manohar Lal   |   May 17

From a BS-MS Student to An Independent Scientist: My Academic Journey  |   Sayan Choudhury   |   Apr 16

The Cora Ball - Protecting Millions of Ocean Acres by The Second  |   Sharanya Chatterjee   |   Apr 10

Smart Moves: Temple Langurs Master the Art of Begging  |   Dishari Dasgupta   |   Apr 05

Secret of the Wings: Nanostructures on a Dragonfly  |   Debanuj Chatterjee   |   Apr 02

A Century of Quantum Mechanics: From Paradoxes to Possibilities  |   Sobitri Sen   |   Mar 10

Brain on Overload: Unlocking Hope for Rare Diseases Through Cellular Cleanup  |   Tisha Dash   |   Mar 09

Let’s Make An “Invisibility Cloak”!  |   Swarnendu Saha   |   Mar 02

The Quantum Conundrum: Redefining Security in the Quantum Revolution  |   Shibaraj Sahu   |   Feb 25

Adaptation of Living Cells to Mechanical Forces  |   Suman Halder   |   Feb 10

Detection of Base-Pair Mismatch in DNA via Graphene Nanopores  |   Sukalyan Deb   |   Feb 05

Melding Data with Science: A Perspective on the Recent Nobel Prizes  |   Prof. Neelanjana Sengupta   |   Feb 02

Interviews

At the Intersection of Physics and Biology: Tamal Das on Forces, Cells, and Curiosity  |   Suman Halder   |   Aug 10

Why Therapies Fail: Prof. Ofer Reizes on Cancer, Collaboration, and Curiosity  |   Swarnendu Saha   |   Aug 05

With Prof. Nagaraj Balasubramanian: On Cell Biology, Cancer, and the Joy of Doing Science  |   Sharanya Chatterjee   |   Aug 02

From Cancer Research to Paradigm Shifts: Dr. Sushanta Roychoudhury With InScight  |   Swarnendu Saha   |   Jul 20

Guiding the Next Generation of Thinkers: An Interaction With Prof. Arvind A. Natu  |   Swarnendu Saha   |   Jun 25

Meet Prof. Sanjit Mitra, the Science Spokesperson of LIGO India  |   Swarnendu Saha   |   Jun 08

Through The Eyes Of The Founding Director: Interview with Prof. Dattagupta  |   Swarnendu Saha   |   Jun 08

From IISER Kolkata Transit Campus to Tel Aviv: Rajarshi Bhattacharyya’s Academic Voyage  |   Swarnendu Saha   |   Jun 08

In Conversation with Prof. Mustansir Barma  |   Swarnendu Saha   |   Apr 17

In Conversation with Dr. Chandra Shekhar Sharma  |   Swarnendu Saha   |   Mar 01

In Conversation with IISER Alumni Srijita Ray  |   Swarnendu Saha, Aritra Das   |   Feb 20

In Conversation with Prof. Probal Chaudhuri  |   Swarnendu Saha, Manish Behera   |   Feb 15

Insight Digest

Issue 6

Thermal-breach memory: Harnessing metastability for sensing to artificial neurons  |   Aniket Bajaj

Listening to Rivers: How Stream flow Can Help Us Understand Rainfall Better  |   Swarnendu Saha

What do the fundamental constants of physics tell us about life?  |   Suman Haldar

From the Arctic to India: Understanding How Barents–Kara Sea Ice Influences the Monsoon  |   Ashish Ramesh NT

Issue 4

Fast and precise atmospheric sensing over 100 km open path  |   Debanuj Chatterjee

Tree rings unlock the sun’s age old secrets  |   Chitradeep Saha

How does Antarctic sea ice and circulation change fate of global CO(_2) levels  |   Madhura Narayan Joshi

Old carbon routed from land to the atmosphere by global river systems  |   Swarnendu Saha

Issue 3

New Functions for an Old Protein: How Does RAS Drive Migration in Human Cells?  |   Dhiman Sankar Pal

Recyclable Bio-based Polyethylene-like Materials from Acceptor-less Dehydrogenative Polymerization of Bio-derived Diols and Catalyst-enabled Closed-loop Recycling  |   Anusha Biswas

The Neuron With Its Own Brain  |   _Madhura Theng _

Intraspecific competition for a nest and its implication for the fitness of relocating ant colonies  |   Tanusree Mondal

Unlocking the Origins of Animal Multicellularity: A Close Relative Shows the Way  |   Swarnendu Saha

Issue 2

Leishmania major-induced alteration of host cellular and systemic copper homeostasis drives the fate of infection  |   Shruti Santosh Sail

Reversion of colorectal cancer cell, a new approach towards anti-cancer therapeutics  |   Monjuri Hembram

The First Ancestor: How LUCA Shaped Life on Earth  |   Swarnendu Saha

Persistent currents in 1-dimensional spin-orbit coupled rings under influence of Zeeman field  |   Bijay Kumar Sahoo

2024

Articles Interviews Insight Digest

Articles

Engineering Solutions for Foot Care: IISER-K’s E. coli-Powered Foot Insole Bags Gold at iGEM  |   Swarnendu Saha, Suman Haldar   |   Nov 14

Revolutionising Biology with Artificial Intelligence  |   Suryadip Sarkar, Tathagata Chatterjee   |   Nov 14

Cracking the Ammonia Code: Balancing Global Food Security and Environmental Sustainability  |   Sobitri Sen   |   Nov 14

Kolkata Connection with 2020 Physics Nobel Prize: The Role of A K Raychaudhuri  |   Alekhya Kundu   |   Nov 14

Why We Follow Trends, Even When They’re Bad for Us  |   Swarnendu Saha   |   Aug 04

Gluten – Not For All Gluttons!  |   Shrestha Chowdhury   |   Aug 04

Interviews

Science, Systems, Success: Interview with a Distinguished Scientist  |   Swarnendu Saha   |   Nov 08

In Conversation with Director Sunil Khare  |   Swarnendu Saha, Abhirup Mukherjee   |   Aug 04

In Conversation with ISRO Scientist Dr. Shyama Narendranath  |   Swarnendu Saha, Suman Halder   |   Aug 04

Insight Digest

Issue 1

Earth has its own electric field weaker than a pencil battery  |   Chitradeep Saha

Mapping Strain in Laser-Written Diamond Waveguides Using Optically Detected Magnetic Resonance  |   M. Sahnawaz Alam

GWTC-3: Compact Binary Coalescences Observed by LIGO and Virgo during the Second Part of the Third Observing Run  |   Swarnendu Saha

Strange Metal and Quantum Spin Liquid in Heavy-Fermion Material: An Array of Exotic Phases  |   Abhirup Mukherjee