Humans are currently at a risk of being wiped out from the surface of the Earth if an asteroid hurtling towards the planet really crashes d...

Ramayan and Mahabharat stories have brought enjoyment and pleasure to generations of young people. However, NCERT should not include these ...

Perhaps this story of rupture of happy nuptials has a silver lining. By returning to the 'all is forgiven, come back home' motherland, the ...

There’s no stronger bond between friends than their, um, body odour

Taxmen don’t have the palate for fine non-distinctions like microwaveable meals and ready-to-eat dishes. They suspect much value being smug...

Damned if you have no free time, damned if you have too much free time? Once again (funded) research backs up common sense as boffins, clea...

Resigning ourselves to people’s honest mistakes is the right thing to do.

A machine to monitor washing of hands is to be expected from the Japanese.

Science and humour: a punny thing happened on the way to the lab.

The inability to feel guilty leads to non-cooperation movements, say the boffins from Nottingham, ironically, once the home of the most gui...

More relevantly, though, this exercise proved that the size of brains do not necessarily determine the ability to learn new skills or adapt...

And in India, only Sikkim and Madhya Pradesh governments appear to take happiness seriously. Whether a ministry of happiness — as mooted by...

The boffins in the British monitoring and technical surveillance arm GCHQ are supposed to be smarter than the average Joe.

That is what Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam did in his years at Rashtrapati Bhavan between 2002 and 2007, bringing in openness and inf...

Science is now corroborating Japanese master’s advice: boffins have found that mental fatigue does set in after you have been sitting down ...

The current contretemps over Tripoli reminded your scribe of the prediction the anonymous poet made about Kali Yuga in the Vishnu Purana: “...

Our ancestors came from outer space. And the chariots these gods used were fiery meteorites, says a Nasa boffin.