𝑮𝒓𝒆𝒆𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒔 𝒇𝒓𝒐𝒎 𝑹𝒆𝒔𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒄𝒉 𝑴𝒂𝒕𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒔! Weekly newsletter Issue 21 is out! This week, learn about the first government-approved genome-edited rice varieties—DRR Rice 100 (Kamla) and Pusa DST Rice 1—created using genome-editing technology based on CRISPR-Cas. In this week's stories, the process of micro and nano plastics formation, a new molecule to fight aggressive triple-negative breast cancer, the most extensive snow leopard survey, the relation between water poverty and temperature shocks, mining minerals on Earth to study Mars and more. In the regional section, we have stories in Hindi and Marathi. There are also STEM stories from other Indian media outlets. Check out the events section for all this week's public science events. Don’t forget to check out Scidle - the science wordle, for a new science word every day. 𝑨𝒍𝒔𝒐, 𝒘𝒆 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒂 𝒓𝒆𝒒𝒖𝒆𝒔𝒕. 𝑾𝒆 𝒏𝒆𝒆𝒅 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒔𝒖𝒑𝒑𝒐𝒓𝒕! 𝑨𝒔 𝒂 𝒔𝒎𝒂𝒍𝒍 𝒕𝒆𝒂𝒎, 𝒊𝒕 𝒉𝒂𝒔 𝒐𝒇𝒕𝒆𝒏 𝒃𝒆𝒆𝒏 𝒄𝒉𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒆𝒏𝒈𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒐 𝒑𝒓𝒐𝒅𝒖𝒄𝒆 𝒔𝒄𝒊𝒆𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒄𝒉-𝒃𝒂𝒔𝒆𝒅 𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒏𝒕, 𝒊𝒏𝒄𝒍𝒖𝒅𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒅𝒂𝒊𝒍𝒚 𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒊𝒄𝒍𝒆𝒔, 𝒘𝒆𝒆𝒌𝒍𝒚 𝒊𝒏𝒇𝒐𝒈𝒓𝒂𝒑𝒉𝒊𝒄𝒔, 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒊𝒄𝒔, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒏𝒆𝒘𝒔𝒍𝒆𝒕𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒔. 𝑰𝒇 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒍𝒊𝒌𝒆 𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒌 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒘𝒂𝒏𝒕 𝒕𝒐 𝒔𝒖𝒑𝒑𝒐𝒓𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒈𝒓𝒐𝒘𝒕𝒉 𝒐𝒇 𝒂 𝒔𝒎𝒂𝒍𝒍 𝒔𝒄𝒊𝒆𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝒏𝒆𝒘𝒔𝒓𝒐𝒐𝒎, 𝒌𝒊𝒏𝒅𝒍𝒚 𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒔𝒊𝒅𝒆𝒓 𝒅𝒐𝒏𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈. D𝐨 𝐲o𝐮 𝐡a𝐯e a r𝐞s𝐞a𝐫c𝐡 𝐩u𝐛l𝐢c𝐚t𝐢o𝐧 𝐨r u𝐩c𝐨m𝐢n𝐠 𝐞v𝐞n𝐭s y𝐨u w𝐚n𝐭 𝐮s t𝐨 𝐜o𝐯e𝐫 𝐢n t𝐡e n𝐞w𝐬l𝐞t𝐭e𝐫? P𝐥e𝐚s𝐞 𝐞m𝐚i𝐥 𝐮s a𝐭 𝐞d𝐢t𝐨r𝐬@𝐫e𝐬e𝐚r𝐜h𝐦a𝐭t𝐞r𝐬.𝐢n. Read: https://researchmatters.substack.com/p/micro-and-nano-plastics-cancer-fighting