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  © ViScienceBlogs 2025. All rights reserved. When a Piece of Paper Begins to Glow, So Does Hope In the heart of Bengaluru, something extraordinary unfolded not with lasers or billion-dollar machines, but with a sheet of humble filter paper and a spark of brilliant Indian ingenuity. At the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), a team of researchers developed a paper-based sensor that glows in the presence of a key enzyme linked to liver cancer. No hospital beds, no scanners, no long queues just a glowing disc that could change how early-stage cancer is diagnosed, especially in low-resource settings. This isn’t just about science. It’s about lives. About access. And about reimagining what diagnostics can look like in rural clinics, government hospitals, and homes across India and the world. What's the Discovery ?  IISc scientists have created a low cost paper-based biosensor that glows in the presence of liver biomarkers.  Image featured here was originally published by t...

  © ViScienceBlogs | Do not reproduce without permission. Discover the real story behind the chicken and egg puzzle with a human twist. Science, faith, and everyday logic collide in this fun, witty breakdown of one of life's oldest debates. 🥚We Ask It Casually. But It Hides a Deeper Mystery “What came first, the chicken or the egg?” 🐔❓ It’s the kind of question that pops up when we’re joking around or getting philosophical over coffee. But the more you think about it, the more fascinating it gets 🤔.  It’s not just about chickens. It’s about life, creation, beginnings and how we explain the world around us🌍. Let’s unpack what science, faith, and philosophy all have to say. You might never look at eggs the same way again. ⏳ This Question Is Older Than Chickens Even the ancient Greeks were puzzled. Aristotle  thought life didn’t need a beginning. He imagined an eternal loop: chicken, egg, chicken, egg forever🔁. To him, it wasn’t about solving the puzzle, but about ...

  Discover the hidden stories of Galileo,  Marie  Curie, Franklin, and Semmelweis pioneers who faced isolation, illness, and injustice in their pursuit of truth. Every time you Google a cure or gaze at a NASA photo, you're seeing the results of someone's risk not just their research. Some scientists gave up comfort. Some, their health. A few, their lives ⚰️ . This is not just a tribute it’s a journey through the dark side of discovery. 1.  🔭 Galileo Galilei: Truth Against the Church 🌠 The Telescope That Shook the Heavens In the 1600s, Galileo Galilei  turned his telescope to the stars and saw something undeniable:  🌍 Earth revolved around the Sun. This shattered centuries of belief, threatening the authority of the Church ⛪ . ⚖️ The Trial That Silenced a Voice Galileo’s proof was branded heresy. In 1633, he was forced to deny his own findings before the Roman Inquisition . Though spared execution, he lived the rest of his life under house arrest punished...

  Why Bats Might Save Us From the Next Pandemic Blamed for deadly viruses, bats might actually help prevent   future pandemics. Discover how their biology, behaviour, and ecosystem roles could protect human health. We Fear Bats. But Science Says We Shouldn't. If you hear "bats," what’s the first thing that comes to mind? Maybe COVID 😷 . Maybe vampire 🧛  myths. Maybe fear 😨 . For most people, bats feel like bad news. But the more you dig into the science, the more you realise we’ve misunderstood them deeply. They aren’t villains. In fact, bats might be the reason we survive the next global health crisis. Bats Carry Viruses. That’s True. But It’s Not the Whole Story. Yes, bats are known to host viruses like  Nipah , Ebola, even coronaviruses . But here's what makes them different: They carry these viruses without getting sick . That’s rare in nature. It’s not because the viruses are weaker in bats. It’s because bats evolved in a way that th ey  live with viru...

  llustration of Hennig Brand discovering phosphorus by heating urine in a 17th-century alchemy lab, with glowing white vapour rising from a pot. © ViScienceBlogs Throughout history, many of the most groundbreaking scientific discoveries began not with precision or foresight, but with strange ideas and pure curiosity. In the case of phosphorus, the first element to be chemically discovered and isolated in modern times, the story begins in the most unexpected of places: a bucket of human urine. This strange and smelly journey, which unfolded in the 17th century, marks the point where alchemy unknowingly gave way to chemistry, and the pursuit of gold uncovered something even more valuable knowledge.   When Science Glowed (and Smelled) Strange Science isn’t always born in pristine labs or written in textbooks. Sometimes, it rises from bizarre beliefs, failed goals and in this case, over 50 buckets of human urine. Back in the 1600s, a man chasing gold stumbled upon something far m...