Boa, an 85-year-old Andamanese, who was the last living member of an ancient tribe, died on Republic Day.

A group of art students learnt synthetic biology to make bacteria produce the smell of rain in a lab. They almost succeeded.

Lucid language, poignant moments and one hell of an ending. If only there was a plot to fill the 200-odd pages.

The national bird of Australia is busy making babies in Indian poultry farms. And they are not here to be slaughtered, not for 10 more years at least.

The bizarre world of ants and why a handful choose to study it

An honest review of Diwali extravaganza Blue.

A rare genetic disorder can be the most crushing and lonely ordeal to suffer.

While Indians rarely figure in the list of Nobel Prize winners, we haven’t been entirely missing either.

The yield from the Hiroshima atom bomb was 18 KT. The Pokhran ‘fizzle’ yielded around 27 KT.

Some of them spent their best years in prison. They were young when they went in and middle-aged when they were released. Some are still serving time. What does freedom mean to such people? Here it is in their own words