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A classroom water test can become an important investigation when the result concerns the water families drink every day. In Assam, students and teachers used…

Sir Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya was one of India’s most influential engineers and public administrators. His career linked practical infrastructure with…

A small temple flame can sometimes produce a deep, throbbing roar that seems far too powerful for its size. Visitors may describe it as a growl, a whoosh or…

Phrenology claimed that the shape and surface of a person’s skull revealed their character, intelligence and moral qualities. Developed in Europe in the early…

In rural Gujarat, cattle dung is more than an agricultural residue. When collected systematically, it can become a source of biogas, organic fertiliser and…

E.K. Janaki Ammal was an Indian botanist whose work changed the way scientists understood and improved sugarcane. Through plant breeding and chromosome…

Stories about ghostly figures in an abandoned hospital in Shimla often spread through photographs, short videos and eyewitness accounts. Windows appear to…

The Himalayas stretch across the northern edge of the Indian subcontinent like a colossal backbone, and even with their ancient appearance they remain one of…

A team of researchers in Kolkata has developed a wound dressing based on silk, a familiar material given a new role in biomedical science. The approach uses…

Born in a small village in Punjab during the twilight years of British India, Hargobind Khorana would grow up to perform one of the twentieth century's most…