A scientist, a Marxist and a dreamer

Thirty-five years ago, a renowned British biologist branded England "a criminal state" and migrated to India. Today, in the year of his birth …

Blindsight?

What appear to be vestigial or redundant organs need not be so, as the Spalax ehrenberghi teaches us

On love and life

An unusual conference focuses on sociability as an essential part of the species' survival kit

From Adam to ape

God, says the Kansas State Board of Education in the US, created the world in seven says. Evolution therefore doesn't exist. A new curriculum …

Sri Lanka grapples with elephant-human conflict

Wilidlife photography ain't that simple

Photographs of wildlife in controlled situations have fostered an exotic image of the wild

Problem of plenty

Pobitora wildlife sanctuary in Assam has far more rhinos than it can sustain

No let up in human-animal conflict in Bhitarakanika National Park

The real Johannesburg: 6 powerful photos from a gritty new book on the city

The book is an ethnographic portrait of one of Africa’s most vibrant and intriguing cities

Good while it lasted: The DTE cover story on 6th mass extinction

Simply put: Plastic spill in the North Sea

Lake found on Mars by scientists

The underground lake is about 20 kms wide and is on Mars’ southern ice cap

Decoding life

Real vision

Researchers delve into the mystery of how the hand percieves what the eye cannot

Mammoth mollusc

Gay markers

Sex discrimination

No tear-jerker, this

A new technique to deliver drugs to eyes without making them water

Beastly gene

A disorder that causes hair to appear an over the body has been traced to a mutant gene

Love bite

Oldest remains

Reducing brain damage

GALAPAGOS SEA

Living in harmony

Ears for music