प्लास्टिक की सनक

वैज्ञानिकों ने प्लास्टिक के गंभीर खतरे बताएं हैं फिर भी…

Beyond DNA

Maurizio Meloni's book is a fascinating social and political history of human heredity spanning over 150 years

जीवाणुओं का रहस्य

कई विशेषज्ञों का तर्क है कि प्रतिरोधक क्षमता का संबंध श�…

परिवर्तन की गणना

एट्रीब्यूशन स्टडीज के जरिए पता लगाया जाता है कि जलवायु �…

चिकित्सकीय परीक्षणों में लिंगभेद

आधुनिक चिकित्सा के इतिहास में अनुसंधान प्रयोग हमेशा लै�…

The `feeling' in nature

Andrea Wulf resurrects the forgotten intellectual explorer, Alexander von Humboldt, whose work has left a lasting imprint on our understanding of …

Making sense of sexual swings

Is your sexual preference only a result of your genes or do environment and culture also influence it?

Legal gimmick

Calling only the Ganga human will not wash away our mounting environmental sins

यौन भावनात्मकता की समझ

क्या आपकी यौन प्राथमिकता केवल आपके जीनों का परिणाम है य�…

Debased database

Statistical data has been used and abused for centuries by a range of people for a variety of reasons. Is there a way out?

What if the Lazarus returns

We may never be able to bring extinct species back to life. Yet, scientists are drawing up secret plans for their resurrection

The brew of `post-truth'

Popular opinion can now be engineered using fake news grapevines spawned by new technologies. Here's how

Overwhelmingly WEIRD!

The edifice of Western science is built on generalisation, where homogeneity has replaced diversity

‘पोस्ट ट्रुथ’ का सच

सरकारों ने हमेशा से काल्पनिक तथ्यों के जरिए प्रोपेगंडा…

Unmasking the monsoon

Putting together the finer pieces of the monsoon puzzle remains a challenge as new key drivers have emerged

The joker among 'trumps'!

Logging trees to generate power is emerging as the new game to gain carbon credits. But this climate strategy is burning the ecology

Mortal combat

Can life be extended indefinitely? There is a renewed vigour among scientists looking for ways and means to cheat death

एन्थ्रोपोसीन: मानव युग की प्रस्तावना

एन्थ्रोपोसीन यानी मानव युग, मुनष्य और प्रकृति के बीच बढ�…

Wannabe Noahs

Scientists are trying to bring back extinct animals from the dead, throwing open the Pandora's box

Scientific stutter

Do animals have a language, and hence a mind, of their own?

Sharing love's labour

Why should women always take on the burden of contraception medications, and not men?

Chimeras of afterlife

A growing number of the elite are freezing their bodies in the hope for a rebirth. Is it possible?

Bet your brain

The market is flooded with brain boosters, even though there is little evidence to show for it

Uncanny truth about germs

Building immunity may be a matter of keeping company with microbes, argue some immunologists

No consensus on consciousness

Despite fanciful theories by psychologists, physicists, neuroscientists and computer scientists, consciousness remains an abiding mystery