Reviews

Long before collagen became a familiar word on supplement tubs and skincare labels, G.N. Ramachandran was asking a harder question: how can the arrangement of…

A student in Kerala showed that a working egg incubator does not always require expensive laboratory equipment. With a cardboard box, a small light bulb, a…

The Konkan Railway is one of India’s most demanding transport projects: a broad-gauge line running along the country’s western coast, where the Arabian Sea…

The belief that eating fish during monsoon causes skin diseases links two events that often occur at the same time: rainy weather and changes in diet. A…

In 1930, a soft-spoken Indian physicist stood on a podium in Stockholm to accept a Nobel Prize for work he had first sketched on a ship crossing the Indian…

A team of clinicians and machine-learning researchers in Bengaluru has turned a basic fundus camera into a portable diabetic retinopathy screener that an…

Many households across the Indian subcontinent share a quiet ritual that few guests ever notice. If someone sneezes just as they reach the doorway, the trip…

Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam rose from the lanes of Rameswaram to lead India's most ambitious strategic programmes, and his story has travelled well…

A faint greenish glow reported on a forested hill in Nagaland can sound like a scene from a local legend. In a landscape shaped by monsoon rain, dense…

Most Australians who glance at the daily horoscope in a Sydney newspaper or check a Melbourne wellness app probably assume the twelve star signs were carved…