Monday, April 28, 2025

Krishnendu

The Accidental Palaeontologist

How British soldier William Henry Sleeman became the first to discover dinosaur fossils in Asia and what became of...

‘The British trained us to appreciate our culture’

Ravindra Singh Bisht, a former joint director-general of the ASI, speaks to The Telegraph about its great significance and...

Dr Solitarious & Mr Gregarious

The army of desert locusts marauding through Rajasthan and MP, rushing towards Maharashtra, making Karnataka shudder and putting Telangana...

Routes and Wings

How to become an aerospace engineer? Prasun Chaudhuri asks Subrata Roy (see pic), professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering...

Ice spies

The RV Polarstern will park itself in the Arctic Ocean for a year. Its data harvest should help counter...

‘A true scientist appreciates being proven wrong’

Professor Charles Henry Bennett of IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center in New York, US, is a physicist and...

Follow the Map

Sarah Teichmann, co-founder of the Human Cell Atlas (HCA), was in Calcutta to deliver a talk on mapping the...

Turn of the key: Why cryptography makes for good career choice now and in near future

Encryption is a security technique. The science of encrypting and decrypting information is called cryptology. “Encryption works by encoding plaintext...

Heads and Tails

The Article on a life-saver cancer drug, its workings and how it spent a decade post-discovery in oblivion Some scientists...

AI, Machine Learning, and Quantum Computing

Abstract Many AI researchers believe that current AI technology will inevitably lead to the development of artificial general intelligencelabel{intelligence}, or...