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IIT Hyderabad
Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad
In Focus
Of rain and rivers
Climate researchers are using diverse sources of data and data-driven techniques to build faster and more accurate models for forecasting weather, helping communities better prepare for extreme events in a changing climate.
Features
The case for resilient scientific databases
Scientists are advocating for alternative models of open scientific databases that are resilient to technical disruptions and funding cuts.
Democratising artificial intelligence and imagining the future of work
As the new year began, the campus was abuzz with conversations about AI inclusivity, societal adoption, and the future of work.
Research Bytes
Twisted light tells apart molecular twins
Many molecules occur as mirror images whose handedness influences their chemical activity. Researchers have developed a sensitive and scalable method that uses twisted light to distinguish these fo...
A monsoon over the Sahara
Have you ever wondered what might happen if the Earth reversed its spin? In a recent study, researchers used simulations to discover its dramatic effects – a monsoon emerges over one of the world’s...
The yin and yang of bacterial turbulence
Physicists model flocks of birds in flight and swimming bacteria to understand the emergence of collective behaviour. A recent study has discovered that swimming bacteria show hidden order in their...
Gold-coated drug nanocapsules show potential for targeted cancer therapy
Recent research from IITH and CSIR-IICT opens up possibilities of affordable, localised therapy using a combination of drugs that attack cancer cells and co-occurring microbial infections.
Profiles
Structural steel for resilient and sustainable infrastructure
The Structural Steel Research Group conducts research on the use of structural steel for sustainable infrastructure. The team’s research combines experimental mechanics and computer simulations, co...
Inking the future of clean energy
Pavakah Energy, a start-up incubated at IIT Hyderabad, is developing printable inks to make the next generation of solar panels. These thin-film solar panels are light, flexible and cost-effective,...
Special Series: The 2025 Nobel Prizes
A quantum system that you can see
The 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics went to scientists who built a macroscopic system, an electrical circuit a few millimetres in size, that could exhibit quantum behaviour. This is the foundation for ...
Protecting the body from itself
Autoimmune diseases occur when the immune system goes rogue and attacks the body from within. The discovery of a crucial protection mechanism against such self-attack won the Nobel Prize in Physiol...
Materials of the future
Metal-organic frameworks act like highly selective molecular sieves, which can revolutionise separation processes. Their discovery won the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
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Research Shorts
Twisted light tells apart molecular twins
Researchers have developed a sensitive and scalable method, which uses twisted light to tell apart mirror image molecules, with promising applications in research and industry.
The case for resilient scientific databases
Large centralized databases are the backbone of research but are vulnerable to failure. A recent commentary suggests alternative models to build more resilient databases.
Monsoon over the Sahara
Researchers are using inventive methods to understand what shapes climate. Reversing the Earth's spin reveals that hidden connections between energy and water vapour drive the monsoon.
The yin and yang of bacterial turbulence
How do swimming bacteria collectively generate flow that resembles turbulence? Researchers have discovered that beyond a critical level of activity, bacterial flows show hidden order within a sea o...
Gold-coated drug nanocapsules show promise for targeted cancer therapy
Researchers from IIT Hyderabad and CSIR-IICT have developed gold-coated nanoparticles capable of delivering multiple drugs for localised cancer treatment.
Backyard Biodiversity
When spring is on fire
Come spring, flame of the forest flowers set the landscape ablaze in and around IIT Hyderabad.
The sky is rosy
Every winter, IITH welcomes international visitors of the feathery kind — flocks of rosy starlings migrating from Central Asia and Eastern Europe.
Header Image: Satellite image of Cyclone Gonu in the Arabian Sea on June 4, 2007. NASA via Wikimedia Commons (Public Domain).
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