This week, Himanshu Jangra apologised for making derogatory comments towards women during a comedy show. He was there as an audience member. .Another clip on X of another Indian comedian also caused a stir recently. He said that of the 10 rape cases we read about in the news every day, nine involve “just” rape,...
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June 19, 2026June 19, 2026Science & Tech
Science Quiz: Counterintuitive effects
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June 19, 2026June 19, 2026Science & Tech, Society
Interview | Steve Brusatte on why India could be the world’s next dinosaur hotspot
Roughly once a week, a creature dead for tens of millions of years is introduced to science for the first time. Around 50 new dinosaur species are named every year — a pace the species might have struggled to match even at their peak in the Cretaceous period, between 145 and 66 million years ago. Steve...
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June 19, 2026June 19, 2026Science & Tech
ParSEC Whitefield in Bengaluru is a science museum where anyone can innovate anything
A clock made entirely of mathematical equations, a robot dog named Muffin, and even an alien species attempting to understand humanity. These were some of the first things we encountered at ParSEC Whitefield, PARAM Foundation’s science experience centre in Bengaluru. Unlike most science museums, where exhibits are designed to be observed, nearly everything here asks...
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June 19, 2026June 19, 2026Science & Tech
What is downblending, the process at the heart of Trump’s Iran agreement?
In the memorandum of understanding signed by the U.S. and Iran to end the war, Tehran has pledged never to develop a nuclear bomb in return for U.S. sanctions relief and access to a $300 billion development fund. Beyond that commitment, the MoU offers few details on how the U.S. and Iran intend to solve...
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June 18, 2026June 18, 2026Health, Science & Tech
Many roads to reading: what vision can reveal about dyslexia
Every classroom has children who look ready to read, yet when print appears on the page, something slows down. To parents or teachers this struggle can look puzzling: at times it can present as poor intelligence or motivation, and oftentimes, the first guess is that the child has a problem in seeing the text. That...
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June 18, 2026June 18, 2026Science & Tech
How history came to have its first trillionnaire in Elon Musk
The map has become more important than the territory. And the mapmakers are increasingly burning the territory to keep the map warm. The SpaceX IPO on June 12 ended with Elon Musk becoming the world’s first trillionnaire — a word that still invites a red underline on Google Docs. That word has become because money...
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June 17, 2026June 17, 2026Science & Tech
Science Snapshots: June 21, 2026
New seismic hazard spotted in Japan’s 2011 quake Following the 2011 earthquake, 15 minutes after the main shock, the ground across Japan shifted east by up to 6 mm. Using satellite data, scientists have now found this movement was triggered by ScS waves, seismic waves that travel down from the earthquake source, bounce off the...
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June 17, 2026June 17, 2026Science & Tech
What a ‘super’ El Niño would mean for India’s monsoon
The United States’ National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) confirmed this month that an El Niño has formed in the equatorial Pacific, and placed the odds at about 63% that it will strengthen into a “very strong” — colloquially, a “super” — event by the northern winter. India’s June rainfall, until 16th June, is roughly...
