A better brain is not about size. Social insects with ‘tiny’ brains can perform complex tasks such as counting
03 December 2009The Planetary Society is soon hoping to demonstrate the possibility of using sails to propel spacecrafts
24 November 2009Or why the Bhopal Gas victims are better off without the hordes that will descend—yet again—to feast on the 25th anniversary of the tragedy.
24 November 2009Conspiracy theorists are running riot, as scientists field questions on the end of the world...
18 November 2009After sixteen years of work, Surjit Hans’ mission of translating all of Shakespeare into Punjabi is nigh an end.
12 November 2009Babies start processing speech patterns in the womb and this is reflected in a newborn’s cry
12 November 2009A race that has taken 7 billion years rules out many theories predicting a graininess to space
04 November 2009A quarter of a century after 1984, the nature of the State remains a life-and-death matter for some of us.
29 October 2009Pranav Mistry is the MIT grad behind Sixth Sense, a tool that connects the physical world with the world of data.
28 October 2009Research is showing that sex confers significant evolutionary advantages on species.
27 October 2009Brahma Chellaney is a geostrategist and the author of two award-winning books on water: Water, Peace, and War and Water: Asia’s New Battleground
MJ Akbar is the author of, among several titles, Tinderbox: The Past and Future of Pakistan. His latest book is Gandhi: A Life in Three Campaigns
TCA Raghavan is a former Indian High Commissioner to Pakistan and Singapore. His first book, Attendant Lords: Abdur Rahim and Bairam Khan: Courtiers and Poets in Mughal India, was awarded the Mohammad Habib Prize by the Indian History Congress. He is also the author of The People Next Door: The Curious History of India’s Relations with Pakistan and History Men: Jadunath Sarkar, G S Sardesai, Raghubir Sinh and Their Quest for India’s Past. His latest book is Circles of Freedom: Love, Friendship and Loyalty in the Indian National Struggle
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