Fingering the keyboard
Indian scientists are developing computers that can understand and respond to the spoken wordIndian scientists are developing computers that can …
Nature and culture, no fissure
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Binary blunders
The gender spectrum is a consequence of the complex interplay between culture and highly-nuanced and protean brain
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Filling in the "big picture"
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The great brain robbery
As the Alzheimer's epidemic rages worldwide without the hope of a cure, the best we can do is change the way we live to halt it in its tracks
Making sense of sexual swings
Is your sexual preference only a result of your genes or do environment and culture also influence it?
Mars' water connection
Channels and valleys observed on the Martian surface and meteorites of Martian origin indicate that once there might have been water on the planet
The computer plays postman
India seems ready to cash in on electronic mail, a cheap and fast way of communication in which messages are exchanged through computer networks.
Manipulating reality
The concept of Virtual Reality -- simulating the real world -- is adding a new dimension to entertainment and education.
A stale session of scientists
The 81st session of the Indian Science Congress failed to inspire interaction among scientists and was reduced to a forum for criticising the …
The rise of the machines
Artificial Intelligence is riding on both hope and fear. Here's why
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The brew of `post-truth'
Popular opinion can now be engineered using fake news grapevines spawned by new technologies. Here's how
No consensus on consciousness
Despite fanciful theories by psychologists, physicists, neuroscientists and computer scientists, consciousness remains an abiding mystery
The `feeling' in nature
Andrea Wulf resurrects the forgotten intellectual explorer, Alexander von Humboldt, whose work has left a lasting imprint on our understanding of …
Call the bluff
The JNU episode must force us to decipher the modus operandi of the modern `truth-telling' information machinery
Interest in metals rekindled
Scientists have found a metallic mix that allows superconductivity at higher temperatures than before
Summing up the golden ratio
What's behind our puzzling fetish to find beauty in numbers?
The genesis of a knot
If our early ancestors were polygamous, then how did we become monogamous?
What if the Lazarus returns
We may never be able to bring extinct species back to life. Yet, scientists are drawing up secret plans for their resurrection
Is anyone out there?
The Hawking-Milner initiative promises to offer the quest for alien intelligence a new lease of life
No sweat over this shirt
A fabric developed at the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, promises to keep sweat from being a bother