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In a remote settlement tucked into the foothills of the Himalayas, a small community has rewritten what sustainable household energy looks like in rural India.…

Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar was born in Lahore in 1910, when the city was part of British India. He became one of the twentieth century’s most influential…

The belief that warm water after a meal dissolves fat is common in wellness advice, including social media posts and traditional home remedies. It sounds…

The banyan tree is a striking example of how a plant can reshape its surroundings while remaining rooted in one organism. What looks like a grove of separate…

A team of researchers at IIT Hyderabad has unveiled an artificial pancreas system designed to automate insulin delivery for people with type 1 diabetes. Priced…

Vikram Ambalal Sarabhai helped transform space science in India from a specialist pursuit into a national instrument for education, communication, weather…

For years, satellite photos of salt flats near the Rann of Kutch in Gujarat have circulated online, showing pale rings scattered across a flat plain. To many…

Feng shui, the Chinese practice of arranging objects to harmonise with invisible energy flows called qi, has spread well beyond its Yangtze origins. Across…

In a Kerala classroom, a simple pendulum became a practical tool for questioning a dramatic claim: that astrologers could foresee earthquakes by interpreting…

Few names in mathematics carry the mystique of Srinivasa Ramanujan, an Indian clerk from Madras whose notebooks upended long-held assumptions about numbers.…