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Stories about a “magic mirror” in an ancient Indian temple often present an ordinary physical object as proof of supernatural knowledge. The mirror may seem…
That earthy scent after a long dry spell is often called petrichor. It can seem especially vivid when the first rain reaches sun-baked soil, dusty paths or a…
On a 12-hectare cotton plot near Khargone, Ramesh Patidar reinvented how his family farms. Heaviest spraying had produced thinner harvests, not better ones.…
Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis remains one of the most consequential figures in the development of modern statistics in the Global South. While household surveys…
Mourners across continents have long whispered that a deceased loved one's beard appears fuller, or that fingernails seem longer during viewing. In Australian…
Floating in the Buldhana district of Maharashtra sits a near-perfect circle of water ringed by low, forested walls. To most visitors it looks like a quiet…
A team at IIT Madras has unveiled a compact, solar-driven desalination system capable of producing up to 1,500 litres of freshwater per day for coastal…
In a Calcutta laboratory at the turn of the twentieth century, a brass instrument with a fine lever twitched almost imperceptibly as a marigold leaf drank…
Picture yourself somewhere on the Stuart Highway between Coober Pedy and Marla, the sun hammering down and the bitumen shimmering as if wet. Ahead, the road…
The pseudoscience of numerology presents numbers as hidden forces that shape personality, relationships, careers, health, or destiny. A birth date may be…