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Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis. Credit: puducherry.gov.in

Listen: A Scientific Take on the Indian National Identity Through Mahalanobis’s Profiloscope

Padmaparna Ghosh and Samanth Subramanian 24/03/2016

P.C. Mahalanobis’s instrument attempted to assimilate an 'Indian' on...

A small bag of unroasted coffee beans. Credit: Isai Symens/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0

A Brief History of Coffee – the Brew of Empire, Sedition and Exile

Suvasini Ramaswamy 23/03/2016

Coffee has transformed wild mountainsides into plantations at the...

Ulsoor Lake in Bengaluru. Credit: araswami/Flickr, CC BY 2.0

Bangalore’s Dead Fish Are Just a Symptom of the Time Bomb that Lies Ahead

Anjali Vaidya 21/03/2016

Ulsoor Lake is one of the last strongholds in...

A scanning electron microscope image of normal circulating human blood. In addition to the irregularly shaped leukocytes, both red blood cells and many small disc-shaped platelets are visible. Caption & credit: Wikimedia Commons

Crosstalk: How Two Modest Heroes Won the Battle Against Childhood Leukaemia

Sunil Laxman 20/03/2016

Y. Subbarow and Sidney Farber developed a friendship recognising...

Close up of a saw-scaled viper, a venomous snake. The Irulas find it under a piece of cloth. Credit: Roy Benadict Naveen

Keep Calm and Catch a Snake

Aparna Karthikeyan 11/03/2016

In a single generation, snakes have become more valuable...

An image of the M101 spiral galaxy, 25 million lightyears away, snapped by NASA's Spitzer space telescope. Credit: NASA, JPL-Caltech, K. Gordon (STScI) et al.

Are the Constants of Physics Constant?

Venkat Srinivasan 11/03/2016

The weird thing about them is that there is...

Dr. V Shanta who steered the Cancer Institute in Chennai to iconic status.

A Woman Pioneer in the Male World of Oncology

Kamala Ganesh 10/03/2016

The extraordinary story of Dr. V Shanta, 89, who steered...