India, Sept. 11 -- Seventy-four thousand years ago, the sky went dark. On the island of Sumatra, the supervolcano Toba erupted with a force that was beyond anything humans had previously known. The Ea... Read More
India, Sept. 4 -- In his landmark book, Peacemaking Among Primates (1989), primatologist Frans de Waal describes a behaviour he first documented among the chimpanzees of Arnhem Zoo in the Netherlands ... Read More
India, Aug. 28 -- Have you noticed how a motorcyclist who always wears a helmet on the main road may sometimes ride without one on a quiet road inside your colony? He has not necessarily decided that ... Read More
India, Aug. 21 -- The race to leadership in artificial intelligence (AI) is usually discussed as a contest of algorithms, but that misses two other components - data, which trains the models; and comp... Read More
India, Aug. 14 -- The current debate over whether eggs should be included in school mid-day meals has obscured a larger question: Should Indians eat more animal protein? The most recent National Fami... Read More
India, Aug. 7 -- In The Omnivore's Dilemma, Michael Pollan makes the case that while we think of agriculture as the process by which humans domesticated plants, in some sense, it is crops like maize t... Read More
India, July 31 -- India has introduced a mandatory health declaration for all international air passengers as part of its response to the current outbreak of Bundibugyo Ebola in parts of Africa. The f... Read More
India, July 24 -- For the first time since records began, no woman aged 20-24 died from cervical cancer in England over a five-year period. The reason was a vaccine given to schoolgirls nearly two dec... Read More
India, July 17 -- India's draft National Health Research Policy, which was released for public comment in July, has notable strengths. First, the policy draft directly confronts administrative barrie... Read More
India, July 10 -- The climate crisis is making India's water crisis harder to manage. Rainfall is becoming less reliable and more erratic, and is arriving in short, intense bursts that run off before ... Read More