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In the eastern Indian state of Odisha, a small village once watched its crops wither each summer as the monsoon clouds broke early or failed to arrive at all.…

Gopalasamudram Narayanan Ramachandran transformed the study of biological molecules by showing how mathematical reasoning and experimental evidence could…

Vastu Shastra is a traditional Indian system that prescribes how buildings should be oriented, shaped, and arranged to harmonise with cosmic forces. Its…

The Indian spinning top, known as the bhamta in Hindi or lattu in Punjabi, has fascinated children and physicists for generations. Whipped into motion by a…

A claim that a team of researchers in Bengaluru developed a dengue vaccine from papaya leaves sounds plausible because papaya leaf extract has been discussed…

In the winter of 1928, a softly spoken Indian zoologist walked the basalt plateaus of the Nilgiri Hills with a notebook in his hand and a pair of binoculars…

When visitors wander into the sandstone chambers of a Rajasthani fort just before sunset, they often stop in their tracks. A clear, musical note rises from the…

Walk into a pharmacy on Melbourne's Bourke Street and you may still see shelves labelled "homeopathic," even though the Therapeutic Goods Administration…

A school in Maharashtra showed that meaningful astronomy does not always require a computerised observatory or an expensive commercial telescope. With simple…

Reports of “vampire attacks” in a Bihar village attracted attention because they appeared to describe people being bitten or attacked by an unknown creature at…