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Review: An Effort to Understand Why Medical Corruption Takes the Form It Does

Kiran Kumbhar 18/10/2018

The existence of a scam as enormous as Vyapam...

A closeup view of GR FLORA 64 60 102. Credit: Haresh Lalvani

Could All Shapes Have Their Origin in a Universal Genetic Code of Form?

S. Ananthanarayanan 17/10/2018

The renowned architect Haresh Lalvani is thinking of ways...

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Cultural Heritage Has a Lot to Teach Us About Climate Change

Cathy Daly, Jane Downes and William Megarry 17/10/2018

While cultural heritage sites are under threat from rising...

An illustration of the coconut tree from Hortus Malabaricus, with names in Latin, Malayalam, Arabic and Konkani written in the Nagari script. Credit: K.S. Manilal

A Kerala Botanist’s Affair With an Unlikely 17th Century Book

Akshai Jain 30/09/2018

K.S. Manilal first chanced upon the 'Hortus Malabaricus' in...

Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya. Credit: Wikimedia Commons

Engineer’s Day: The Little Known Histories of Indian, British Engineers Before 1947

Aparajith Ramnath 15/09/2018

In the period between the World Wars, homegrown Indian...

A fire burns at the National Museum of Brazil in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil September 2, 2018. Credit: Reuters/Ricardo Moraes

Massive Fire at 200-Year-Old National Museum in Brazil

Reuters 03/09/2018

The museum, which is tied to the Rio de...

We have ancient ancestors to thank for the cheese we eat today. Credit: Pixabay

The Surprising Role Cheese Played in Human Evolution

Penny Bickle 30/08/2018

Archaeologists have discovered the world's oldest cheese, and it...