Monisha Ravisetti
Reporter, Life Sciences and Physical Sciences
Monisha Ravisetti, based in New York, covers Life Sciences and Physical Sciences for The Academic Times. Prior to that, Monisha worked at Weill Cornell Medical College, Mount Sinai West and NYU Langone conducting clinical and basic science research. She graduated with a degree focused in philosophy, physics and chemistry from New York University, and her work investigates the intersection between science and the human condition.
A newly developed prototype for a wearable, elastic battery mimics the structure of biological DNA and could better meet growing demand sparked by advancements in robotics and a rising interest in smartwatches, sleep-monitoring devices and other technology-driven fashions and medical tools.
Massive solar storms in space can be picked up by iOS and Android smartphones, meaning billions of people have a personal geomagnetic storm detector — but the signals threaten to interfere with future location-based applications.
The dawn of the quantum internet has begun: A group of scientists successfully built a fully functional prototype of such a network, which uses diamonds as a foundation and calls on paradoxical quantum concepts that were once restricted to the pages of a textbook.
Physicists have concluded that some masses of boson particles — members of the things-that-could-explain-dark-matter club — don't actually exist, meaning the parameters for locating the presumably vast but hypothetical material just became more refined.
A technique used worldwide to determine organic carbon pollution in natural waters has been revealed to overestimate concentration levels by up to 90%, meaning some environmental policies may be based on considerably incorrect data.
Physicists may have discovered the first naturally occurring "bombs" lying dormant within white dwarf stars roaming outer space, and if detonated, the explosive material could force an entire star's destruction.
An extremely uncommon African orchid has been found to control, in a peculiar way, how its fellow flowers are pollinated: by releasing an aphrodisiac-like chemical that ignites the lust of a male longhorn beetle, consequently tricking the insect into engaging in sexual activity.
The question of where gravity comes from is a seemingly eternal one among theoretical physicists, and most answers involve dark matter, which can't be accounted for by regular physics. But a new theory offers an explanation that can be explored with existing equations: Gravity might originate in the quantum vacuum.
Aerospace and medical device breakthroughs are sharply increasing demand for special materials called carbon nanofibers, but these emerging compounds could add to a long list of pollutants that inadvertently poison animals — particularly, Amazonian turtles.
A sweeping analysis of the movements of tens of thousands of aquatic species has shown that because of global warming, animals that once thrived in the ideal environment of the tropics are journeying away from home.
The nightmare of COVID-19 spurred a wake-up call among immunologists, leading several experts to band together and create a list of 100 organisms most likely to cause the next pandemic. Having steadily conjured treatment and prevention routes for dozens, their most recent achievement surrounds a protein molecule that targets the deadly virus Eastern equine encephalitis.
Genetic analysis of several hundred dogs revealed that breeds predisposed to histiocytic sarcoma have corresponding gene variants, and because humans are also susceptible to this rare form of cancer, the findings could help inform therapeutic strategies for canines and people alike.