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Clone rangers: Meet the two Indians behind the world's first self-cloning rice

India, Jan. 10 -- It is one of mankind's oldest questions: How can we grow enough food? Indian-American plant biologists Venkatesan Sundaresan, 73, and Imtiyaz Khanday, 40, weren't even looking to an... Read More


Haul of fame: Could your home hold an artefact of national importance?

India, Jan. 3 -- How does one protect and preserve heritage, in a country where the local temple idol likely predates Ancient Rome, churches still stand that are older than the United States, and peop... Read More


Let that sync in

India, Dec. 21 -- There are about 900,000 miles of undersea cables lying on our ocean floors, holding filaments often as thin as a human hair. Together, these cables transmit 95% of all international ... Read More


The Web Beneath the Waves: Wknd chats with the author of a new book on undersea cables

India, Dec. 19 -- There are about 900,000 miles of undersea cables lying on our ocean floors, holding filaments often as thin as a human hair. Together, these cables transmit 95% of all international ... Read More


A rocky start: How we got our oxygen

India, Dec. 14 -- They are the earliest evidence of life on Earth. Stromatolites date to a time before oxygen. These stony structures hold the fossilised remains of cyanobacteria, a sort of ancient an... Read More


Cloud computing: Memory's in the air

India, Dec. 14 -- Think about what you know about how a monsoon system works: moisture evaporates from the oceans; it accumulates in the air; wind and weather systems move this accumulated moisture; p... Read More


A rocky start: The riveting story of how Earth got its oxygen

India, Dec. 13 -- They are the earliest evidence of life on Earth. Stromatolites date to a time before oxygen. These stony structures hold the fossilised remains of cyanobacteria, a sort of ancient a... Read More


Tree rings, seabeds, even in the air: See where Earth stores its 'memories'

India, Dec. 13 -- There are ancient secrets about our planet hidden where one would least expect: in tree rings, deep in ocean beds, in the shells of crustaceans. Together, these form a vast archive ... Read More


Where do we go from here?

India, Nov. 9 -- The shift has already begun. "Climate change is not a distant threat. We can already see the impacts of it. People are being rendered homeless or jobless because of it, are moving bec... Read More


Where do we go from here?

India, Nov. 9 -- The shift has already begun. "Climate change is not a distant threat. We can already see the impacts of it. People are being rendered homeless or jobless because of it, are moving bec... Read More