Healers in arms

The conflict between allopathy and homeopathy is an old one

Body ache? Try green dosa

A creeper found in south India is an answer to several common ailments, says Sumana Narayanan

Nazi's industrial jackal

Bayer, Hoechst and BASF participated in Nazi crimes

Chronicle of the end foretold

Security threat to hornbill

Armed with a feather and a memory, Vivek Ramachandran pitches for saving the last 300 Narcondam hornbills from radar station

Will Fuleco score the final goal?

Three-banded armadillo, the real-life counterpart of FIFA World Cup's official mascot, is in danger of extinction

Smoke laws first enacted in city of joy

Because of its political importance in the British empire, Calcutta was one of the first cities to regulate smoke emissions. But legislation …

Pox Americana

Is the West a victim of its own past?

The demoralizing esculent

When it was introduced in Europe, people associated the potato with disease

Days of the dino

A priest-scientist to artists, dinosaurs have had their popularizers  

Pesky pets

One of the first species domesticated by man, the pigeon is now an invasive species and a pest in many parts of the world

Delhi's walking medicine bank

Omkar Nath Sharma has made it his vocation to collect unused medicines and distribute them to the poor

When lakes were tanks

Bengaluru's lakes were actually tanks created in the absence of a big river

Noteworthy

Santhal trio pulls right strings to keep alive a dying tradition

Treasure in your trash

Time for climate lesson

A Nepal school that imparts practical knowledge to farmers

Digging their Destinies

Villages in arid areas of Vidarbha and Marathwada fight back drought by reviving natural depressions along stream beds

Learning from faults

An early 20th century US earthquake teaches lessons in tectonics

The rise and fall of a chemical

DDT use goes back to World War II

Junk stops here

Meet bureaucrat Yishey D Yongda, determined to turn Sikkim into a zero-waste zone

Monsoon of death

Every monsoon, Baba Raghav Das Medical College of Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh, witnesses hundreds of children dying of viral encephalitis or Acute …

Sweet cruelty

Sugar plantations were run by African slaves who were tortured, but they also revolted against their masters

Bead's eye view

Glass beads reveal ancient Indian Ocean trade networks

Grains of culture

Why China lost out to Europe in industrialisation

Collectors turn entrepreneurs

A forest official helps tribals add value to forest produce and earn more