Jack of all traits
Monkey jack, a lesser-known cousin of jackfruit, finds use in kitchen, cosmetics and medicine
A parallel government
A group of Afghanistan’s tribal elders supersedes constitutional bodies during national crises
Livestock rearer deals with climate change
Pastoralist Voices on Climate Change, directed by Joana Roque de Pinho, Lindsay Simpson and Nicolas Tapia
The first predicted sighting
Pierre Gassendi became the first astronomer to catch a glimpse of Mercury on the basis of a prediction made by German astronomer Johannes Kepler.
Rs 16 lakh crore
This is the least value of "unproductive" work done by women in a year in India, and it is close to government's annual budget
Celebrating Documentaries
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Not just a nightly ritual
Book>> The Secret Life Of Sleep • by Kat Duff • Simon Schuster • Rs 1,050
Media was always social
Book>> Writing On The Wall • By Tom Standage • Bloomsbury Press • Rs 1,590
Nutrient overdose
Population burst has increased the amount of nutrients released into the atmosphere through human activity. Varun Varma, a PhD student at the …
Beneath the surface
Heat absorption rate of sub-surface waters in the Pacific has seen a phenomenal rise in the past 60 years
Ultra-sensitive to light
Arindam Ghosh, physicist at the Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, talks to Tiasa Adhya about his discovery of a light-sensitive composite …
What ails the Jarawa people in the Andamans?
Contact with the outside world has exposed the Jarawas to various dangers. Is isolation the best way to conserve? A debate
Printing gets a new dimension
With right raw materials and the know-how, one can create almost anything using 3D printers
How light impacts brain
Light-sensitive photoreceptors melanopsins play crucial role in cognitive ability of the brain
Click the sick
Visual documentation of illnesses is integral to healthcare in the West but a rarity in India. Sayantan Bera charts the hows and whys of medical …
Early years with nature
Book>>An appetite for wonder, the making of a scientist • Eco Books • Rs 1,930
Clearing the clouds
Scientists are learning that the Indian monsoon is an integral part of the global ecosystem. The knowledge of these 'global teleconnections'…
Pseudo science
- S K HANDA Former head, division of agricultural chemistry, Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, writes in Agriculture Today (…
Celebration of life
In a first, a Bollywood commercial flick delves into a differently abled person's sexuality
Unaware and unprepared
More than 26 asteroids entered Earth's atmosphere between 2000 and 2013. None of them was detected in advance
Gut instinct
Grasshopper gut contains DNA of plants it eats. Data on the pest’s food habits can help devise control strategies
Social ants and social humans
Book>> The social conquest of earth• by Edward O Wilson • Liveright publications • Rs 1,040
Elusive trail
Despite heavy deployment of police, Veerappan has remained elusive. The Special Task Force used the ugliest tactics to track him down, but failed
What the blazes!
Is it the hand of God, or the soiled hand of man? The buck is being passed even as flames stretching hundreds and hundreds of kilometres …
Warming warnings
The debate whether climatic changes trigger calamities continues. But there is no doubt that environmental degradation wrecks havoc on Orissa