Presumed ideals
Any utopia, whether founded on reason or faith, contains the seeds of dystopia within
Science Tales
Writings on the interplay of science, history, gender, culture and politics
Scientific stutter
Do animals have a language, and hence a mind, of their own?
DNA as history and sophistry
Genetics is only giving us some clues about our identity and lineage
अंग्रेजी बनाम स्थानीय भाषाएं
अंग्रेजी की जगह स्थानीय भाषाओं में विज्ञान पढ़ाना कितना तार्किक और यथार्थवादी है?
Death of a genius
Nonconformist to the core, Linus C Pauling epitomised the spirit of science and peace
Tongue-twisting in easy steps
A software package allows material in unfamiliar Indian languages to be read in 10 others
A river with a difference
एन्थ्रोपोसीन: मानव युग की प्रस्तावना
एन्थ्रोपोसीन यानी मानव युग, मुनष्य और प्रकृति के बीच बढ़ते अलगाव को प्रदर्शित करता है
Filling in the "big picture"
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The rise of the machines
Artificial Intelligence is riding on both hope and fear. Here's why
Summing up the golden ratio
What's behind our puzzling fetish to find beauty in numbers?
The genesis of a knot
If our early ancestors were polygamous, then how did we become monogamous?
The nature of malaria
A new project is analysing several natural parameters that aid the spread of malaria
A scrapbook of wonder
Caspar Henderson inspires us to broaden the horizons of our sense of wonder
New injectable male contraceptive
A styrene maleic anhydride 'plug' has few side-effects and is reversible.
Counting losses
A new instrument makes the task of monitoring ozone levels easier
डीएनए ने उलझाए अतीत के रहस्य
डीएनए ने अतीत की अनिश्चितता को और उलझा दिया है, अतः इतिहासकारों, पुरातत्ववेत्ताओं और आनुवांशिकी विज्ञाानियों को मिलकर यह पता लगाना होगा कि क्या ...
Mortal combat
Can life be extended indefinitely? There is a renewed vigour among scientists looking for ways and means to cheat death
Overwhelmingly WEIRD!
The edifice of Western science is built on generalisation, where homogeneity has replaced diversity
Beyond DNA
Maurizio Meloni's book is a fascinating social and political history of human heredity spanning over 150 years
Unassuming bodyguards
Altering the structure of peptides can fashion them into loyal and hard-to-beat soldiers of the body's immune syustem
Wannabe Noahs
Scientists are trying to bring back extinct animals from the dead, throwing open the Pandora's box
Bet your brain
The market is flooded with brain boosters, even though there is little evidence to show for it
Unbuttoning the gender straitjacket
Attempts at subverting the delusions of gender should begin with a progressive fashioning of young minds