All well?: A new book explores how illness shapes our world

India, Aug. 30 -- We're not just in the Anthropocene (a geological era shaped by human activity). Some researchers argue that we are also in the Third Epidemiologic Transition: a time of diseases appe... Read More

Can you name a single woman Renaissance master?

India, Aug. 29 -- It isn't your fault. The bias in art history goes all the way back (click here for this week's Wknd special on this). Even women revered in their lifetimes have faded from gallery wa... Read More

The 'other' masters: Women from the Golden Age of Dutch and Flemish art

India, Aug. 29 -- A rare major retrospective dedicated to women who shaped the art world in the 17th century's Golden Age of Dutch and Flemish art was held at the Museum of Fine Arts (MSK) in Ghent, B... Read More

Renaissance masters, abstract pioneers: Women the art world 'forgot'

India, Aug. 29 -- Picture a prehistoric artist making markings in a cave. What do you see? Most of us picture a man. But archaeologists in Europe are now concluding that, judging by the size of finge... Read More

Drawings, notes, hopes and dreams: Inside a rare museum of children's notebooks

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

Space race: What will the buildings of the future look like?

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

The history of maybe: How far back does probability theory go?

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

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... Read More

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... Read More

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... Read More

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