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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


Purrfect storm: India's wild small cats are facing a case of too much love, and too little

India, March 9 -- Every year, the NGO Wildlife SOS receives calls from panicked villagers who have mistaken a juvenile rusty spotted cat for a leopard cub. The rusty spotted cat is the smallest wild ... Read More


Ladies first, second and third

India, Feb. 25 -- What would it look like if women ruled the world? More than a century ago, the Bengali feminist writer Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain followed that line of thought through rather dark alle... Read More


Fever dream: In this story, ladies first, second and third

India, Feb. 23 -- What would it look like if women ruled the world? More than a century ago, the Bengali feminist writer Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain followed that line of thought through rather dark alle... Read More


Do or dye: How humans chased colour and found it

India, Feb. 18 -- H ow did we "find" colour, which shades have we lost, and how did synthetic dyes change it all? Textile designer and researcher Lauren MacDonald, 33, spent three years working on th... Read More


Is the future of paint geometric?

India, Feb. 18 -- B utterflies are guiding scientists to new hues. The lessons aren't coming from their powdery pigments, but from their iridescence, which is the result of an intricate network of s... Read More


Do or dye: How humans chased colour and found it

India, Feb. 16 -- How did we "find" colour, which shades have we lost, and how did synthetic dyes change it all? Textile designer and researcher Lauren MacDonald, 33, spent three years working on the... Read More


Flying colours: Butterflies are inspiring an entirely new approach to paint

India, Feb. 16 -- Chemistry and physics are all very well, but the future of paint could well be geometric. And our guides in this field, are butterflies. The lessons aren't coming from their powdery... Read More


Techno-colour dreams: New recipes are making hues deeper, darker, brighter

India, Feb. 16 -- When did colour get so complicated? Historians would argue that it always has been. In the ancient Mediterranean, there was only one way to produce a certain royal purple, and it to... Read More


Cracks in the ice: A continental shift

India, Feb. 4 -- Antarctica is Earth's coldest region, oldest ecosystem, and largest and driest desert. The lowest temperature recorded here has been -98 degrees Celsius (on the East Antarctic Plateau... Read More