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Indian-American scientist Sethuraman Panchanathan, was appointed the 15th director of the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) in June 2020. He talks to Nature India about sustainable solutions to deal with pandemics, the need for collaborations and his days as a young science student in India.
Polar scientist Vishnu Nandan has just returned home in Canada from a four-month darkness-engulfed lockdown in the Arctic. In an interview to Nature India, he talks about coming back into a world fighting a pandemic.