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Bloom That Could Charge Tomorrow
Editorial / July 13, 2026
Bloom That Could Charge Tomorrow

The first time Dr Ranjit Kumar slid the sample under an electron microscope, what came up on the screen looked less like a battery material and...

Printing the Future, Monitoring the Cracks
Editorial / June 22, 2026
Printing the Future, Monitoring the Cracks

Construction is not an industry that changes quickly. It has been pouring concrete into moulds and stacking bricks in mortar for the better part of...

Perfume's dirty secret is actually clean energy
Editorial / June 08, 2026
Perfume's dirty secret is actually clean energy

Somewhere on the outskirts of Kannauj, the Gangetic plain town that has supplied the world's perfumers with aromatic oils for three centuries,...

The Universe, Between the Seen and the Hidden
Editorial / May 26, 2026
The Universe, Between the Seen and the Hidden

The Universe, Between the Seen and the Hidden We are used to a world that behaves predictably. Objects fall, light travels, and matter stays where...

From Waste to Wonder: Rethinking Materials for a Sustainable Future
Editorial / April 13, 2026
From Waste to Wonder: Rethinking Materials for a Sustainable Future

The next time you see something discarded—a nutshell, a piece of agricultural waste—it may be worth pausing for a moment. What looks like waste...

AI begins to reveal how drugs are found
Editorial / April 07, 2026
AI begins to reveal how drugs are found

Drug discovery has never been a straightforward process. For decades, it has relied on informed guesswork carried out under tight constraints....