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Re-rooting...: Meet the man saving trees by the thousands, with a simple formula

India, July 11 -- We have developed a kind of "tree blindness", says Uday Krishna Peddireddi. One day, a caller may report that a decades-old banyan is set to have a road built around it. Another day... और पढ़ें


Insight out: How sparks fly during an aha moment

India, July 5 -- After weeks spent trying to solve a mathematical problem, French mathematician Henri Poincare was so fed up, he boarded a bus to the scenic town of Coutances. He needed a break. As he... और पढ़ें


Insight out: What goes on in the brain, during an aha moment?

India, July 4 -- After weeks spent trying to solve a mathematical problem, French mathematician Henri Poincare was so fed up, he boarded a bus to the scenic town of Coutances. He needed a break. As he... और पढ़ें


Feels like home: How 'digital twins' are helping plan the future of our cities

India, June 26 -- In something straight out of a videogame, Singapore's Marina Bay Sands comes to life in intricate detail, in a digital simulation. People walk around on a sunny afternoon, take selfi... और पढ़ें


'The wildlife will return. We need to develop the will to let it'

India, June 19 -- Ian Douglas was 10 when he first encountered Jim Corbett. The 1948 classic The Man-Eating Leopard of Rudraprayag "struck me as slightly scary, but I guess it was a scary leopard aft... और पढ़ें


Reel of fortune: Fishermen turn content creators, capturing life at sea

India, June 13 -- Long before the day's catch reaches markets, it has often already made its way to millions of phone screens. A silver stream of anchovies; starfish in a single-file formation; an arr... और पढ़ें


The odd squad: On World Environment Day, meet the strangest species around us

India, June 5 -- There are aliens, of a kind, among us. Some creatures on our wild, wonderful planet are so strange, they could just as well have come from outer space. One kind of sea slug can sepa... और पढ़ें


In a batter place

India, May 31 -- This isn't a typical cookbook. It doesn't contain sections on appetizers, entrees, mains and desserts. What it does hold out are simple, no-frills recipes left by the dead for the liv... और पढ़ें


First-

India, April 26 -- A mong the earliest surviving pieces of writing is a sort of bar tab. About 5,300 years ago, in the city of Uruk in present-day Iraq, a man named Kushim was in charge of a storage f... और पढ़ें


First-word problems: What did the earliest writers write about?

India, April 25 -- History is said to date to the first records about our species; everything before that is even more apocryphal, shrouded in the mists of prehistory. Writing is what made the differ... और पढ़ें