With a new comic book, an ecologist has stepped up his efforts to save the elusive Madras Hedgehog

Brawin Kumar was introduced to the tiny creature because locals were worried about it often ending up as roadkill.

Vijaysree Venkatraman

· Mar 09, 2021 · 09:30 pm

Virtual reality is being harnessed by medicine to treat everything from pain to phobias

A new book by Dr Brennan Spiegel, a physician in the US, makes the argument for a therapy that acknowledges the mind-body connection.

Vijaysree Venkatraman

· Dec 18, 2020 · 11:30 am

An Indian-born scientist explains why a disrupted body clock is the ‘mother of all maladies’

Time Restricted Eating, or consuming required calories within a specific window of time, is key to good health, according to professor Satchidananda Panda.

Vijaysree Venkatraman

· Oct 28, 2018 · 11:30 am

Anna Mani was a pioneering scientist, so why don’t more Indians know about her?

The physicist and meteorologist, who was born on this date a century ago, is the subject of a new picture book.

Vijaysree Venkatraman

· Aug 23, 2018 · 11:30 am

An Indian whose tech made ketchup glide out of a bottle is now making pesticides stick to crops

Professor Kripa Varanasi of MIT has pioneered a technology that could potentially help lakhs of farmers in India.

Vijaysree Venkatraman

· Jul 25, 2018 · 11:30 am

How a Gujarati-speaking writer in Chennai became an acclaimed Tamil anthologist and bookseller

Dilip Kumar’s short stories, with their unexpected laugh out loud moments, have been translated into many languages.

Vijaysree Venkatraman

· Jun 10, 2018 · 11:30 am

Why India’s theoretical physicists owe a lot to Alladi Ramakrishnan’s drawing room in Madras

The Institute of Mathematical Sciences was a dream that began to be realised when Nobel Laureate Niels Bohr visited Ekamra Nivas.

Vijaysree Venkatraman

· Oct 03, 2017 · 11:30 am

How a Madras scientist won the global race in the ’50s to crack the structure of collagen

GNR, who was up against Goliaths from the West, never got any credit for his contribution.

Vijaysree Venkatraman

· May 09, 2017 · 11:30 am