India, Aug. 8 -- * "Yesterday was a bad day.," a 12-year-old from Lombardia in Italy writes, during World War 1. "Today the sun barely shines and although it's just one o'clock there have already been... Read More
India, July 31 -- For millions of years, we lived on this planet but left no trace we were here. Tools changed that, and cave art. Then came architecture. Built habitation remains our stamp upon the ... Read More
India, July 17 -- Insurance, agriculture, weather modelling, vaccines. even recipes, all depend on elements of the law of probability. How likely is toast to burn at a certain point? That shapes how ... Read More
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... Read More
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... Read More
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... Read More
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... Read More
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... Read More
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... Read More
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... Read More