(February 1, 2023) I was on a call with NASA’s Mission Control, Houston for about an hour before my 10:30 pm interview with SpaceX Crew-3 Commander Raja Jon Vurputoor ‘Grinder’ Chari, which was scheduled to be telecasted live on NASA TV on January 28, 2022....
(December 20, 2022) It was a big day for India, when Padma Shri scientist, Subra Suresh, was appointed as the president of Singapore’s Nanyang Technological University (NTU) back in 2018. The former director of the U.S. National Science Foundation, a former Dean of...
(July 8, 2022) The US stock exchange depends heavily on several Indian-American CEOs – many of whom are female. Breaking the barriers of gender, these female trailblazers have been at the helm of some of the biggest firms in the USA. Their soaring aspirations...
(September 9, 2021) Back in 2008 when Ginkgo Bioworks was founded by a group of scientists from the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology, it had one goal: to be able to engineer biology and ultimately build a factory for engineering organisms. Today,...
(August 24, 2021) COVID-19’s aftermath deeply vexes her. It changed a carefree 16-year-old to a thinking and inventing one. Innovator and STEM whiz Neha Shukla spent the pandemic-driven lockdowns leveraging science and technology to create social change. She invented...