Mohit Masta

Nature research paper: Long-term editing of brain circuits using an engineered electrical synapse go.nature.com/4nAQaUQ

To be nothing implies tremendous inward meditation. That is real meditation.

I am pleased to announce that I have accepted a three-year position as Assistant Professor in the Department of Agroecology at Aarhus University. I will be working on understanding the N2O process at the LandCraft Institute.

As the Winter Session of Parliament concludes today, guess what didn't get enough attention? Delhi NCR's worsening air pollution. @ImAvdheshkumar spoke to people across Delhi to ask a simple question: what do they want their MPs to prioritise? Watch: youtu.be/s0GkvjYCDeo

Whatever choice you may make in the state of confusion can only lead to further confusion.

Some people are always late. Science can explain why. - National Geographic apple.news/A_p52q33kQc6UV…

This desert shrub grows its fastest at peak summer heat — 47° Celsius. It tweaks its genes and reshapes its cells to power through heat that stops most plants cold. sciencenews.org/article/death-…

Newslaundry reporter @anmolpritamND and producer Tarun Sahu were detained by Delhi Police on Sunday evening, along with several protesters, while covering a citizens’ protest against air pollution near India Gate.

From carbon dioxide to starch—no plants required. In Science, researchers developed a cell-free method of synthesizing starch from CO2 and hydrogen using a combination of chemical catalysts and a carefully selected set of enzymes. Learn more: scim.ag/3LdT42K #ScienceMagArchives

A new technique called ‘mind captioning’ generates descriptive sentences of what a person is seeing or picturing in their mind using a read-out of their brain activity, with impressive accuracy. go.nature.com/4nZaZId

Same smog. Same outrage. Same circus. But pollution isn’t a seasonal story — it’s a system story. We’ve been reporting on it all year through #FightToBreathe. Read, engage, support. newslaundry.com/fight-to-breat… --- Contribute now: rzp.io/rzp/T4Ob0FCb

“The very encouraging takeaway is that even a little bit of exercise seems to help” A modest increase in physical activity can delay cognitive decline by three years — or more go.nature.com/48VEMNZ

As Bihar heads to polls, our reporter @Basantrajsonu is on ground in Patna tracking how land disputes and caste equations could redraw the political lines of #BiharElection2025. Power our election coverage: rzp.io/rzp/bhrsm

🧠 65-Hour Live Imaging: Hippocampal Neurons Building Circuits Real-time dendritic growth & synaptic remodeling in the rat hippocampus; important to memory & plasticity. 🔬 Continuous multi-day view of neural adaptation. Credit: Louis Romet & Dr. C. Leterrier

There is no understanding of an illusion; there is only understanding of the way it comes into being.

DNA from soldiers’ teeth reveal infections that may have worsened the 1812 retreat from Russia. sciencenews.org/article/napole…

New dates for a long-debated New Mexico fossil site reveal that dinosaurs were thriving and regionally diverse until the end-Cretaceous asteroid strike 66 million years ago, according to a new study in Science. scim.ag/47zTI34

The concept of mine and not mine even in ants. #evolution #nature