Sands of time: How long will the most-used material last

Human beings use sand the most after water. How sustainable is it?

Zooming in to nostalgia

Science, hunger and 200 videotapes

The response was overwhelming: 700 entries had been submitted, of which 200 were selected, and classified into 7 different categories. These were …

Tele tracks on fast tracks

Fibre optic telephone lines which would deliver movies directly to the theatres are all set to stage a revolution if US movie moghuls' high-tech …

Better than the real thing

The Omnicamera can provide all-round vision and will be a boon for sports viewing and security systems

Moving images

Virtual church

Info tangle

Apostate You Tube

COP26 compendium: Watch how China turned world’s largest polluter

Till the early 2000s, the US, EU, UK, Russia, Australia, Canada and Japan dominated global emissions. And then China became a factory for the …

How prehistoric people faced climate change revealed by video game technology

Volunteers come together to play; their results help model what reality could have been

Tepco nails itself

Video>> Nuclear • Japan

Manipulating reality

The concept of Virtual Reality -- simulating the real world -- is adding a new dimension to entertainment and education.

Mindless shopping

Preserving movies

New era semiconductors

From missiles to VCRs, a scintillating change is foreseen, At a smart new breed of semiconductors enter the realm of electronics

New one on the block

The much loved video cassette recorder is going down into the technological dustbin

Making a green mark

Receiving a Wildscreen Panda award is perhaps much more than music to the ears of a team that started off in 1988 by making ad jingles. Eight …

Unique health services

Iran’s YouTube

Video sharing>> Persian culture • Iran

Irrational routes to science

Video>> Science • Virtual World

No kidding

Mr SUN TAKES A HOLIDAY IN SEARCH OF WATER MADAME AIR WANTS A CHANGE MEET THE SOIL FAIRY Dilip M Salwi Publisher: Ratna Sagar P Ltd, New Delhi …

AIDS hits prime time on Doordarshan

Prostitutes are shown more frequently in TV programmes as culprits, whereas they are mostly victims of AIDS.

Celestial non-experience

Films>>

Hope for the living

Documentary film maker, Doordarshan newscaster, theatre artist and radio broadcaster, Ramesh Venkataraman's latest docu-fiction video, Zindagi …