The Pursuit of Science

Submitted: Jul 09, 2025

Foreword by Prof. Tapas Kumar Sengupta


Science is the celebration of unravelling the mysteries of our evolving universe. Unravelling the existence and functions of galaxies involved in formation of stars, planets and evolution of life itself on our beloved blue planet. Through observations, studies and discoveries of the true facts we practise science in our everyday life. Our scientific studies made us able to understand the importance of the ecosystem and its conservation, necessity of food production and storage, combating and preventing diseases and innovation of new, better and safer therapy, safer energy production and its sustainability, faster communication and making artificial intelligence as a new tool.

Prof. Mitra explains the phenomenon of zero shadow day to the introductory summer school students at the Inter-University Centre for Astronomy & Astrophysics (IUCAA). Read his interview in this issue of InScight.

As we cannot freeze any condition forever, contentious studies and scientific experimentations are required to understand the ever-changing ecosystem and need of our civilization and to come up with more and more innovations in order to address those changes to make our planet more habitable. For that, besides the traditional scientific studies and standard scientific research, out of the box thinking is required for seeding and cultivating young minds for innovations. Let InScight be the platform for the Insight of our future to seed, cultivate and nurture the open minds and unbound thoughts of the young scientists.

After the first release of InScight in the month of January in 2025, this journey is going on with a clear motivation and with fullest energy and enthusiasm to publish the fourth issue. My sincere thanks to the InScight team for having such an endeavour. Keep going, keep doing and thinking about science. Very best wishes to the team InScight.

In this experiment, two laser frequency combs—one on each end of a 113 km open-air path—beam precisely timed light pulses across the atmosphere to detect gases like CO₂ and H₂O with extraordinary precision. Read the relevant Insight Digest writeup by Debanuj Chatterjee.

With warmth,
Prof. Tapas Kumar Sengupta,
Department of Biological Sciences,
IISER Kolkata