Squashing Dissent: Final assault on India’s press freedom
The Centre’s repressive media policies are destroying Kashmiri journalism, intimidating outlets into serving as government mouthpieces and creating a...
Sonic boom: Who’s using vocal fry in the ocean? Dolphins and whales
4 March 2023 1:30 PMTaking a new approach, Dr. Elemans and colleagues inserted endoscopes into the nasal cavities of trained Atlantic bottlenose dolphins and harbor...
Cancel culture: Truth about the censorship of Roald Dahl
4 March 2023 5:30 AMThe assumption that there is an urgent debate here, is politically useful to both sides. But what both sides are really arguing about is not whether...
Deep dive Ancient DNA reveals history of hunter-gatherers in Europe
3 March 2023 1:30 PMOver the past decade, geneticists have added a new dimension to that history by extracting DNA from teeth and bones. And now, in a pair of studies...
The cashless trail: Where digital payments are colossal in scale
3 March 2023 5:31 AMIndia’s homegrown instant payment system has remade commerce and pulled millions into the formal economy
Fashion forward: With Lagerfeld, clothes were only part of the story
2 March 2023 1:30 PMLagerfeld rather achieved mega-celebrity status by giving dramatic makeovers to two entities: the esteemed but for a time somewhat moribund house of...
Pandemic origins: Shaky discourse around lab-leak hypothesis
2 March 2023 5:30 AMIf you had been told, back in 2019, that this would be the state of knowledge in 2023, would it not seem weird that there has not been a broad public...
In memoriam Paul Berg, Nobel-winning pioneer of genetic engineering
1 March 2023 1:30 PMThe achievement was the first link in the chain of advances that has led to the genetic engineering of new therapeutic treatments for diseases and of...