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Author Gauhar Raza speaking at the release of his book, From Myths to Science: The Evolution of Religious Beliefs and Scientific Knowledge, in New Delhi on November 11, 2025.

There has always been a market for superstition. Today, it is just better packaged: Gauhar Raza

The scientist-poet on how godmen, politics, and markets rebrand irrationality for both the illiterate and the educated.

Ashutosh Sharma

Australia’s social media ban for users under 16 years of age came effect on December 10, a landmark move that has drawn global attention.

Australia draws a line online. Will India follow?

Oz is turning off social media accounts for under-16s, starting a global debate on digital childhoods. India will have to decide where it stands.

Science Notebook

A teenage galaxy with a midlife crisis and the deuteron that wouldn’t die

R. Ramachandran

Sanchar Saathi (and the state) wants a permanent seat on your phone

The DoT says it fights fraud. The order says it cannot be disabled. The Minister says delete it if you wish. Something does not add up.

Vedaant Lakhera

Deepfakes, murder simulations, and gaming coalesce in a unified assault: all tools of digital patriarchal control, from sexual objectification to lethal erasure.

Pixels of Patriarchy

The new face of digital violence

Deepfakes now travel from hostel rooms to global platforms, turning women’s faces into tools of control while tech firms let the harm run.

Madhavi Ravikumar

Science Notebook

Brain’s five-act play; motherhood’s hidden shield; and a velocity the cosmos didn’t expect

R. Ramachandran

Counter Culture

AI revolution and synthetic cinema

By trying to smoothen out the path to filmmaking, AI-driven cinema ends up eradicating the very desire for films. MAFF’25 is a case in point.

Prathyush Parasuraman

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Nylon 66 gets a makeover; good news for polyglots; CERN stretches horizon

R. Ramachandran

Priyambada Jayakumar brings a historian’s perspective to this biography of her uncle, M.S. Swaminathan.

M.S. Swaminathan was a product of history: Priyambada Jayakumar

The author of The Man Who Fed India on how “M.S.” bridged science and policy, his bond with Indira Gandhi, and the legacy of the Green Revolution.

Vasanth Srinivasan

The image shows patient-derived tumour organoids before (top) and after treatment (bottom). The colours show the activation of pathways related to cell differentiation in cancer stem cells. Shortly after these images were taken, the cancer stem cells spontaneously collapsed.

Teaching cancer to die; AI finds room in space; and Neutrinos in rare agreement

R. Ramachandran

Image extracted from the Euclid Flagship simulations catalogue. Each dot represents a galaxy: blue points mark galaxies at the centres of dark matter clumps, while red points denote satellites within them.

Universe, now in Ultra HD; and the Dirac dip

R. Ramachandran

John Clarke (UK), Michel H. Devoret (France) and John M. Martinis (US) won the Nobel Prize for physics.

Nobel Prize in physics goes to trio of US-based scientists

John Clarke, Michel Devoret and John Martinis have won the 2025 physics Nobel Prize for their work in quantum mechanics.

A high-resolution image of the flare from the Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope taken on August 8, 2024, at 20:12 UT. The image is about four earth diameters on each side.

Loops in the sun, clues in the grave

R. Ramachandran

Thomas Friendman proposes installing ethical referees in AI systems, but artificial intelligence operates through neural networks that developers cannot fully understand or control, making moral oversight nearly impossible to implement.

Friedman’s AI fantasy

Thomas Friedman thinks the US and China should cooperate on AI regulation. But tech billionaires and national interests might have other plans.

Eshwar Sundaresan

A view of the former Nazi death camp in Stutthof, now in Poland, showing a medical office where experiments were carried out.

Nazi human experiments still influence medicine today

New database tells victims’ stories of forced medical research. What role do specimens and findings from that era play in modern medicine and research

The median of structural variants the new study saw between individuals was a mind-boggling 7.5 million letters of DNA, which shows how much genome editing nature performs on its own.

A re-written human genome, a pocket neutrino trap, and a lunar reactor race

R. Ramachandran

A robot behind a retro film camera. (Representative image). As capitalism embraces AI, the cultural pressure to replace thinking with prompting could redefine—and diminish—the role of the filmmaker.

AI reduces cinema to a product line

Profit-driven algorithms wipe out the process and authority that protect film from industrial uniformity.

An infographic showing the binary binary black hole merger that produced the GW231123 signal.

Cosmic collisions, cellular short-circuits, and the art of splitting water

R. Ramachandran

Postcolonial theory has a Hindutva problem

Ideas meant to challenge colonial power are now being used to justify myth and religion in India, with real costs to science and secularism.

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