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Prolong, farewell: The gruesome history of our efforts to live 'forever'

India, April 26 -- It is considered the disease of civilisation. Why die when you can live? Through history, humans have taken strange measures in attempts to postpone the end. They have invented eli... Read More


Anatomy of a fault: A Wknd interview with CP and Kusala Rajendran

India, April 26 -- They are one of Earth's most destructive forces, earthquakes. CP Rajendran and Kusala Rajendran would like to offer a reminder that they are one of Earth's most creative too. There... Read More


Notes on the future, from a a floating lab

India, April 21 -- At 400 km above the surface of Earth, a very different rulebook for physics kicks in. In the absence of gravity and oxygen, fire behaves differently, as does water. Materials acqui... Read More


Cosmic experiments on a floating lab: Notes on the future, from ISS

India, April 19 -- At 400 km from the surface of Earth, a very different rulebook for physics kicks in. In the absence of gravity and oxygen, fire behaves differently, as does water. Materials acquir... Read More


Watch this Space: What's next, after ISS? Change is coming soon to Low-Earth Orbit

India, April 19 -- The idea was straight out of science-fiction: A post-Cold War US and Russia working on a joint mission to build a giant, rotating, Earth-orbiting laboratory in space. The Internati... Read More


Take a tour of architect Bijoy Jain's work

India, April 19 -- Bijoy Jain, 59, moved into his current home-and-studio in Mumbai's Byculla in 2015. Housed in an old warehouse that is both open and intimate, punctuated by verandahs and courtyards... Read More


Life, the universe and everything: A Wknd interview with architect Bijoy Jain

India, April 19 -- Architect Bijoy Jain likes to say that his materials of choice are air, water and light. His latest exhibition, Breath of an Architect, has been on display at Paris's prestigious c... Read More


We're funny that way

India, April 14 -- We've been trying to unlock the laugh for over half a century, and we're finally forming some idea of where it comes from. The earliest scientific research in this field was conduc... Read More


What does it take to change the world? Wknd talks to environmental policy consultant S Faizi

India, April 5 -- What does success look like, as an environmental policy consultant? Perseverance is the only certain success, says S Faizi. Failing is a big part of the job, he adds. Fighting, conti... Read More


Close encounters of the 3D kind

India, March 17 -- 3D-printing is set to disrupt something that has been fundamentally unchanged since the dawn of the industrial revolution: the process of how things are made. These machines spin m... Read More