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High in the Aravalli hills, a small community has turned an invisible resource into a steady supply of clean water. By stretching large mesh nets across…

Long before "tumour virology" entered lab conversations in cancer centres from Sydney to Perth, a quietly determined researcher in Pune was laying some of the…

For nearly a century, deaths linked to opened Egyptian tombs have fuelled ghost stories, horror films, and warnings about vengeful spirits. The story traces…

Sprawling across western and central India lies one of Earth's most extraordinary volcanic landscapes, the Deccan Traps. In some Northern European tongues,…

A team of researchers in Bengaluru has been working on a breath-based method for detecting chemical signals associated with lung cancer. The idea is simple to…

Jayant Vishnu Narlikar was one of India’s most prominent astrophysicists and science communicators. He became internationally known for questioning the…

The claim that you should not eat fish during monsoon is based on spoilage, not toxicity. Seasonal rain does not suddenly make every fish poisonous. The real…

Cardamom is a small green pod with an unusually complex aroma: sweet, camphor-like, citrusy and slightly peppery. Its fragrance comes largely from volatile…

At a school in Karnataka, students studied an ant colony as a living system rather than treating insects as a chapter to memorise. A transparent observation…

The laser is one of the most versatile inventions of the twentieth century, yet its history is often told as a purely American story. When Theodore Maiman…