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Book-smart and shelf aware

India, Oct. 4 -- At first glance, libraries haven't changed much. They still have shelves, reading nooks and that familiar quietude of heads buried deep in pages, but with a few significant plot twist... Read More


Room of requirement: Why libraries now offer drills, telescopes, 3D printers apart from books

India, Oct. 2 -- There is a reason libraries once occupied entire rooms in palaces and mansions. Books were the new technology: expensive, rare, and, for most people, difficult to access. Until the ... Read More


Rock and a hard place: The true costs of asteroid-mining

India, Sept. 20 -- There are those who argue that it could hurt Earth a lot less, to mine metals and rare earth elements off-planet. A study by researchers at the University of Paris-Saclay, presented... Read More


India is growing its own matcha

India, Sept. 13 -- The first lot of 5 kg sold for Rs 15,000. But the figures weren't the point. With that sale, an 83-year-old tea plantation in Tinsukia, Assam, became the first in India to sell home... Read More


Tap out: Step away from the screens, reclaim the real world

India, Sept. 6 -- "It's gonna get easier and easier... and more and more pleasurable, to be alone with images on a screen, given to us by people who do not love us but want our money." That was David ... Read More


The rise of 'competency porn'

India, Aug. 30 -- It's one battle after another, all through the fifth and final season of The Bear (2022-2026). Chicago chefs Carmy (Jeremy Allen White) and Syd (Ayo Edebiri) face a bad review, delay... Read More


Wood you look at that? At India's lichen and gymnosperm gardens

India, Aug. 23 -- Two of Earth's oldest survivors live on in the forests of Uttarakhand. One group, the gymnosperms, typically reach for the skies, as pine trees, firs and conifers. The other, lichen,... Read More


On the same wavelength: Why do we like the same birdsongs that birds like?

India, Aug. 15 -- Over 150 years ago, Charles Darwin wrote, with some astonishment, that a range of animals appeared to have "nearly the same taste for the beautiful as we have". He was talking about... Read More


This is us: Films for the family

India, Aug. 2 -- "Do you remember that story Dadu used to tell," can be a heart-breaking question when the grandfather is no longer around to answer it. In this way, we quietly lose family lore, treas... Read More