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In 1846, a chemist wiped up spilled acids with an apron and found a dangerous new cottonA German-Swiss scientist, Christian Friedrich Schönbein, stumbled upon a powerful new substance in 1846. An accidental spill of strong acid...- In 1900, sponge divers hiding from a storm found a machine underwater that changed what we know about ancient GreeceA routine sponge diving trip near Antikythera in 1900 led to the discovery of an ancient shipwreck. Among its treasures were corroded bronz...
- In 1892, A North Carolina furnace test for cheap aluminum produced an unexpected solid; that accident helped build the industrial Acetylene AgeA chance discovery in 1892 by Willson in North Carolina led to calcium carbide. This substance could produce acetylene gas. Acetylene provi...
- What construction workers discovered beneath a South Dakota housing site became one of North America’s richest mammoth fossil localitiesIn 1974, construction workers in Hot Springs, South Dakota, unearthed a significant Ice Age fossil site. The discovery revealed numerous ma...
- The alchemist of Bengaluru: Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw began from a garageKiran Mazumdar-Shaw has named her niece Claire Mazumdar as successor, setting up a gradual leadership transition at Biocon. A pioneer who b...
- 'Sri Lankan tourism industry alive and kicking despite Ditwah disaster': officialsSri Lanka's tourism industry assures visitors of their safety and uninterrupted services despite recent widespread flooding and landslides....
- Techie visits Google HQ with sister, stumbles upon Sundar Pichai in a chance meeting. Netizens say ‘Lucky you’A casual campus visit turned extraordinary for New York-based Indian-origin tech professional Akash Wadawadigi when he unexpectedly ran int...
- The boo-boo George W Putin..., er, Bush madeI mean, of Ukraine.' With that goof-up, the US president who ordered a war against Iraq in 2003 after accusing the Saddam Hussein administr...
- First contact from one of 36 civilisations?Serendipitous Rajasthan meteorite need not be satellite debris or space dust.
- Facebook locks horns with Zoom, launches rival Messenger Rooms, supports up to 50 participantsThe app can be used by anyone, irrespective of whether they have a Facebook account or not.
- How social distancing is getting us to slow down, bond with family, cook more & socialise virtuallyIn our battle against Covid-19, experts say the best way to achieve the desired result is through social distancing.
- After a Texan Deepika dosa; should we now ask for a Ran-beer?To a red-hot dosa, won’t the right accompaniment be cool Ran-beer?
- The story behind Raghuram Rajan's most embarrassingly famous newspaper headlineI understood what the reporter was asking, but I wanted to push back on the attempts to pigeonhole me into existing stereotypes, said Raghu...
- Holy Cow, it’s Actually Go(ld)mutra!It cannot be denied that the 3-10 mg of ionic (water-soluble) gold salts retrieved from a litre of cow urine is no piddling amount.
- Economic Survey 2016:India in urgent need to increase shipping fleetIndia's troubled shipping sector is in a dire need to change its fleet, which has as many as 42 per cent of vessels that have crossed 20 ye...
- When going Greek won’t be double DutchOn the knotty issue of who should pay, the term ‘Going Dutch’ is often the best bet: that is, everyone equally splitting the total amount o...
- Animals seem to get ranked according to human associationsThis year we have been reminded about the contribution of at least one member of the caprid species, deciding in favour of sheep would be a...
- NY Mayor Bill de Blasio eats pizza with fork against the norm of “hands only”NY Mayor Bill de Blasio ate a pizza with a fork, Italian style, rather than adhering to the New York norm of “hands only”.
- Guru’s graceIt’s a Panchayatana, or an ensemble of five deities. Your columnist got it recently from a national award-winning stapati in a serendipitou...
- Mother cityThe Harappan city of Dholavira seems more mysterious than ever in full moonlight.
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