Just when the Bharatiya Janata Party was beginning to think that it had tied down the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) over the 2G scam, it reminded us of an old proverb: a chain is only as strong…

Even before its most recent upgrade in late 2008, the sporty Honda City led India’s compact sedan segment. First launched in 1998, the City has undergone several makeovers. By the time its latest ‘…

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It usually takes some effort to make yourself go against your instinct. Researchers at York University have located the area of the brain that lights up when you suppress an automatic reaction, such…

Farah Khan is a director with attitude. Her view is that movies are entertainment, period. Pretensions to higher meaning or art or aesthetics make no sense at all. This is fair enough as a…

Without doubt, the world has moved away from film-based cameras. However, the SLR (single lens reflex) format cameras of that era continue to flourish even in these digital times. The only problem…

Over the past few years, fears of the mass extinction of many species of frogs have proved alarmingly realistic. A fungal pathogen—chytridiomycosis—is responsible. In a 2007 paper, Australian…

Lives and works in Paris and Gorbio, France. That’s a standard line, frequently used at the bottom of most of Syed Haider Raza’s profiles published across the world. However, that address is soon to…

A team of five researchers from the Bangalore-based Institute of Bioinformatics and Applied Biotechnology (IBAB) has designed a novel mobile-phone-like device that will make analysis of a person’s…

Going to office in this bitter cold in Delhi isn’t fun, but spare a thought for the scientists working at the IceCube, an observatory built in Antarctica. ‘Inside Antarctica’ is probably a more…