Hollywood beauty who invented mobile phone: Fact Stranger than Fiction
The extraordinary life of the Hollywood superstar who was also a defense scientist and went on to invent mobile phone technology. Navaratna Rajaram writes more Hedy’s Folly: The Life and Breakthrough Inventions More...
Oil spill & Indian-origin expert
Seema Hakhu Kachru | Houston As BP struggles to contain the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, an Indian-origin scientist from Texas University has created a special cotton fabric that can clean up crude oil up to More...
The Silent Killer
A young career-driven woman in her early twenties, Ria is into heavy smoking. Puffing a cigarette pack each day, the number rises on stressful days. The catch is that Ria is also a scientist and well aware More...
Separating Global Warming from Global Pollution
By David Frawley (Vamadeva Shastri) The pollution of our natural environment, the decline of the quality of our air, water and soils, the destruction of numerous ecosystems and consequent loss of species is an obvious More...
A History Stranger Than Fiction
Newton as a warden By N.S. Rajaram Readers of Sherlock Holmes stories have long enjoyed tales about the great detective’s deadly tussles with the mathematics professor and master criminal James Moriarty. More...
Aryan-Dravidian divide a myth: Study
The great Indian divide along north-south lines now stands blurred. A path breaking study by Harvard and indigenous researchers on ancestral Indian populations says there is a genetic relationship between all Indians More...
Myth as History and History as Myth
Dr. N.S. Rajaram For reasons we need not go into at the present time, some myths are projected as history and while some others, though factual are relegated to the level of myths. This is particularly the case More...
