Whose science should we focus on?

The current debate over ancient India's scientific feats is less about science and more about a cultural `feel good' factor

Real pride of ancient Indian science

Indian scientists are nowhere to be seen in the world you and I inhabit. This is when our modern world requires science to be integrated into …

Inundated by colonial misconceptions

The benefits that can be derived from controlling flood waters intelligently have been wasted, largely because of wrong, archaic notions about …

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From streets to cyberspace

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Antique X-ray machine

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Bones of contention

In search of the past

A Chilean field provides fresh evidence on America's first inhabitants

A new light

New findings suggest that our ancestors did not tame fire as early as is believed

Who were these 'other' humans?

Surviving time

Tamarind paste, mud burial or klih : these preserved manuscripts

The first upright man

Field work stalled after Australia stopped funding for Wollemi National Park

Uruguay's school children gearing up to get their history in place

Phidias' sculptures

Phidias' sculptures

Charles Darwin's wife's diaries published

Salt, a world history

Last remains

‘Indian vegetarians do not eat vegetables’

Food historian and physician Manoshi Bhattacharya explains how the diet of Indians have changed over centuries

Relevance of Gandhian environmentalism

Mahatma Gandhi never used the words environment protection, but his writings are replete with remarks on the excesses of industrial society

Fossil evidence reveals that cancer in humans goes back 1.7 million years

Cancer is not the modern disease many believe it to be. New fossil evidence from two South African caves suggests that its origins lie deep in …

Fabric of the byte

The development of technology and its relations with society and culture hold contemporary lessons for India

History of rational thoughts

Efforts by rationalists to spread scientific thinking have been scuttled by those in positions of power throughout history

A sea of stories

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