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No rivers, no wells, no rain needed: How a Nobel Prize-winning scientist's invention produces up to 1,000 litres of drinking water daily from thin airOmar Yaghi Water-From-Air Innovation: Nobel Prize-winning chemist Omar Yaghi has helped develop a groundbreaking machine that can produce c...- A simple question about refugees led a 15-year-old inventor to build a tool families could actually useA young inventor, Alexis Lewis, developed the Rescue Travois. This wheeled device helps displaced families move supplies and children. Her ...
- Quote of the Day by Jackie Chan: 'I never wanted to be the next Bruce Lee. I just wanted to be the first Jackie Chan'; lessons on originalityJackie Chan’s career, which spans over 60 years and 200 films, was defined by a singular rejection of being the "next Bruce Lee". Following...
- From Greenland to green energy: Five things to know about DenmarkDenmark goes to the polls Tuesday in legislative elections expected to be close, with 12 parties fielding candidates and a slew of coalitio...
- This Nobel Prize winner built a machine that extracts 1,000 liters of water from air each dayProfessor Omar Yaghi, a 2025 Nobel Prize-winning chemist, has developed a revolutionary machine that extracts drinking water directly from ...
- 2024: The year that brought natural disasters and turbulent politics to Latin AmericaLatin America in 2024 experienced a year of extremes, from record snowfall in Santiago to severe drought in the Amazon. Hurricanes battered...
- Moti Mahal vs Daryaganj: Legal spat erupts over who invented butter chicken, dal makhaniMoti Mahal vs Daryaganj: Delhi High Court will decide the ownership of Butter Chicken and Dal Makhani recipes between Moti Mahal and Daryag...
- Benjamin Zephaniah: British poet and writer known for his work on race and racism diesBenjamin Zephaniah, a pioneering British writer and poet, died at the age of 65. The well-known dub poet was diagnosed with a brain tumor s...
- Independence Day: Gritty rags-to-riches stories of Partition refugeesRags-to-riches stories are found mostly in fiction, but the partition of India in August 1947 was the reality that created a large number o...
- Making sense of Nitin Gadkari’s plan to replace ‘horn’ sound with pleasanter optionsGadkari’s maan ki baat is to replace the standard vehicular electric horn developed by Oliver Lucas in Birmingham in 1910 with gentler soun...
- Joe Biden vs Donald Trump: What the next four years will look like for AmericaWith only two days remaining for the much-awaited 2020 election, US President Donald Trump and Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden ha...
- Winners get ready as the Nobel season begins with Medicine PrizeNo Literature Prize will be given out for the first time in 70 years because of a #MeToo scandal.
- Gin: A drink loved and hated in equal measureNo other drink in the history of alcohol was so hated and fought against, so loved and cherished, so corrupted and refined.
- Macron’s speech on nationalism is a wake-up callCalling nationalism an illusion (which of course it is) and a danger is the sort of aggressive, head-on challenge to it that we need so des...
- When Atal Bihari Vajpayee exposed China's designs with a flock of sheepChina accused Indian troops of stealing sheep and yaks from Tibetan herdsmen. China demanded the animals back from India, warning it of dir...
- 2015 belonged to DIET (Distributed, Intelligent, Empowering Technology)With exponential power of computing and connectivity, we are entering a period of Extreme Transformation. Shape up or ship out. DIET (Distr...
- Frankfurt book fair opens in controversy as Salman Rushdie sparks Iran boycottThe world's biggest book fair opens with Iran boycotting the exhibition because the author has been invited to speak.
- Inventing the Asian Games is a forgotten facet of the Nehruvian idea of IndiaThe Far Eastern Asian Games (1913-1934) and the Western Asiatic Games (1934), sponsored by Patiala's Maharaja in Delhi, emerged from this a...
- 26 facts about the republicIndia, the world’s largest democracy, celebrates its Republic Day today, 26th January. Here are 26 quirky facts & figures about our big, co...
- An Arab feast at Osian FestArab films dealing with a variety of themes from war to everyday stories of ordinary men and women and satires and critiques to stylish thr...
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