A matter of numbers

An artist’s impression of the interstellar asteroid ‘Oumuamua. AFP/European Southern Observatory (Photo: AFP)

Call me the wanderer, I roam around

4 min read . 30 Mar 2023

The truth behind our train speeds

5 min read . 23 Mar 2023

Putting a $7 tn claim to the test

5 min read . 16 Mar 2023

Once these skull-analogues were prepared and installed in their lab, the fun began (AFP)

Lessons in how to smash a skull

5 min read . 23 Feb 2023

Eliza old thing, your praises to sing

5 min read . 09 Feb 2023

Take a second to look before you leap

5 min read . 02 Feb 2023

The effort to censor a thing risks drawing orders of magnitude more people to see it (Photo: Mint)

Of waiting lists and would-be censors

5 min read . 26 Jan 2023

The cells tell the story of a tilt

The cells tell the story of a tilt

4 min read . 20 Jan 2023

Take your time to choose, bee

4 min read . 12 Jan 2023

In 1990s a whole trove of fossils of dinosaurs were found in China (Illustration: AP)

The early birds set the scene

5 min read . 05 Jan 2023

A file photo of Srinivasa Ramanujan. (Photo: Wikimedia Commons)

Figures that say things about us

5 min read . 22 Dec 2022

In this corner, an octopus throws

In this corner, an octopus throws

1 min read . 15 Dec 2022

What cubes do that squares don’t

5 min read . 08 Dec 2022

What the number of citations can be made to suggest by tweaking them

What the number of citations can be made to suggest by tweaking them

1 min read . 02 Dec 2022

One photograph, one supernova, and three different images of it

5 min read . 25 Nov 2022

NASA's next-generation moon rocket, the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket with the Orion crew capsule, lifts off from launch complex 39-B on the unmanned Artemis I mission to the moon at Cape Canaveral, Florida, U.S. Nov 16, 2022. (REUTERS)

On the dark side of the moon

5 min read . 18 Nov 2022

And still she wobbles

5 min read . 11 Nov 2022

Rescuers in boats searching the Machchu river next to the bridge that collapsed in Morbi. (AP) (HT_PRINT)

The ground moves, beneath your feet

5 min read . 04 Nov 2022

No left turn please; we’ll save fuel

5 min read . 28 Oct 2022

An index that triggers a metric tonne of annoyance

5 min read . 20 Oct 2022

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