Blogs
How Lasers Could Transform Wireless Communication
Laying fibre optic cables under city streets is a nightmare for pedestrians and traffic. In a dense Indian city, permits, trenches, and road damage...
Women, Wheels and Modern India
For much of the twentieth century, the bicycle symbolised freedom, mobility and modernity in India, but those freedoms were largely reserved for...
Teaching Machines the Language of Law
Tens of thousands of contracts can bind a large company like a country at once. Each one is a dense thicket of clauses, conditions, and exceptions...
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
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
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
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
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
Drug discovery has never been a straightforward process. For decades, it has relied on informed guesswork carried out under tight constraints....
In the Silence of Networks, Failure Emerges
Walk down a crowded city street while streaming a video, and your phone performs a quiet miracle. It hops from one base station to another, keeping...