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Click on all links: A look at the latest version of the Tree of Life

The tree, as of 2016. It still contains just a fraction of 1% of species estimated to be alive today. (Jill Banfield / UC Berkeley, Laura Hug / University of Waterloo et al)

Art and Culture

Updated on Oct 25, 2025 01:55 pm IST

Big bang theory: The intriguing history of fireworks

A depiction of early experiments in China. First it was discovered that air pockets in the bamboo stalk explode with heat. When gunpowder was invented, the two were then combined. Paper wrapping came much later. (Adobe Stock)

Art and Culture

Updated on Oct 17, 2025 10:47 pm IST

Wind of change: How India is making gigs safer and smoother

India is in the middle of an unprecedented concert boom. Are we ready for it? (SHUTTERSTOCK)

Updated on Aug 29, 2025 05:44 pm IST

Get the drift?: A look at the supercontinents of the future

(HT Imaging)

Art and Culture

Updated on Aug 23, 2025 04:56 pm IST

Speaking in Morris code: Where the designs on our phone covers, mugs came from

Strawberry Thief, one of Morris’s most popular designs. (William Morris Gallery)

Art and Culture

Updated on Aug 23, 2025 02:03 pm IST

Whale said: How far have we come in our quest to eavesdrop on animals?

MAMA?: Research has shown that elephants respond to the unique calls family groups use for specific individuals. (Adobe stock)

Art and Culture

Updated on Aug 16, 2025 03:16 pm IST

The ‘nepo babies’ who are making a mark on stage away from the paparazzi buzz

Mumbai, India - July 19, 2025: Zahan Kapoor & Aditya Rawal pose for the photos at Juhu in Mumbai, India, on Friday, July 18, 2025. (Photo by Satish Bate/ Hindustan Times) (Hindustan Times)

Published on Jul 27, 2025 08:24 am IST

Crisper effect: Fruits, vegetables of future could heal, kill, aid in defence

Above, a representation of how AI views the future of produce. The real evolution is, in some ways, stranger. Already, labs are turning out bananas that pack a vaccine punch and cabbages imbued with a scorpion’s sting.

Art and Culture

Updated on Jul 18, 2025 05:05 pm IST

Word on the street: A delightful collection of poems celebrates Indian cities

(Shutterstock)

Art and Culture

Updated on Jun 20, 2025 02:18 pm IST

New details are emerging of Indian WW1 troops amid the Christmas Truce of 1914

Troops in the trenches, during World War 1. (Getty Images)

Art and Culture

Updated on Jun 14, 2025 04:32 pm IST

Rapper Emiway Bantai receives ₹1 cr ransom call from ‘Goldy Brar’

Rapper Emiway Bantai receives <span class='webrupee'>₹</span>1 cr ransom call from ‘Goldy Brar’

Published on May 28, 2025 07:06 am IST

Mosh definitely: India’s metal scene is lit

Metal band Bloodywood has put Indian metal on the global map.

Updated on May 23, 2025 05:16 pm IST

India’s Renaissance woman: Chandrima Shaha, a biologist, cricketer, photographer

Shaha resets a camera lens, during her years as a photographer, in the 1970s. (Courtesy Chandrima Shaha: A Lifelong Journey of Scientific Inquiry)

Art and Culture

Updated on May 16, 2025 05:35 pm IST

Lather, rinse, record: A new book traces the ancient history of dhobis of Delhi

A dhobi at work in Jangpura, Delhi. (HT Archives)

Art and Culture

Updated on Apr 19, 2025 04:57 pm IST

Feather report: Wknd interviews award-winning birder Aasheesh Pittie

‘Be patient, be mindful. Pause the chase for posts and Likes; leave some of that expensive camera equipment behind. It isn’t about the perfect picture… not at all,’ Pittie says. (HT Photo: Abhinandita Mathur)

Art and Culture

Updated on Apr 18, 2025 01:13 pm IST

Cirrus business: Why do we still know so little about clouds?

Where are they going? They just won’t say: Cumulus clouds race across the sky. (Shutterstock)

Art and Culture

Updated on Apr 12, 2025 07:46 pm IST

First word problems: A new book explores the ancient history of the spoken word

Markings in a cave at Lascaux, France. For aeons before the written word, splotches and scratchings like the ones above were likely used to communicate information. What were the sounds that likely accompanied them? (Hartlepool Museums)

Art and Culture

Updated on Mar 14, 2025 04:23 pm IST

Crystal gazing: Could we essentially preserve our species forever?

(Adobe Stock)

Art and Culture

Updated on Dec 21, 2024 07:06 pm IST

Treble in the village: See what sets the Big Bang! Festival of Love apart

Japanese trombonist Chie Nishikori at the festival. (Image:Nilotpal Kalita)

Art and Culture

Updated on Dec 14, 2024 04:39 pm IST

Bone of contention: How anthropologist Irawati Karve took on race theory

Karve at work in Gujarat, in 1944. (Images courtesy Iru: The Remarkable Life of Irawati Karve)

Art and Culture

Updated on Nov 29, 2024 01:55 pm IST

How MuSo helps kids learn outside classrooms

Mumbai, India - Nov. 14, 2024: Tanvi Jindal Shete Founder Leap Gymnastics Academy and Founder Museum of Solutions in Mumbai, India, on Thursday, November 14, 2024. (Photo by Satish Bate/ Hindustan Times) (Hindustan Times)

Updated on Nov 17, 2024 07:12 am IST

Hit and myths: Poems of love, tales of anger from Meghalaya

The writer’s new book, The Distaste of the Earth, uses a Khasi legend about star-crossed lovers to explore themes of religion, justice and communal conflict. It has been longlisted for the JCB Prize for Literature.

Art and Culture

Updated on Oct 18, 2024 07:47 pm IST

A man befriends a cloud, in a touching debut by filmmaker Abhinandan Banerjee

A still from Manikbabur Megh, featuring theatre veteran Chandan Sen.

Art and Culture

Updated on Oct 12, 2024 01:28 pm IST

Quick on the draw: A Wknd interview with comic journalist Dan Archer

In some of Archer’s VR and AR comics, the viewer walks through a re-enactment as it unfolds. This allows for multiple perspectives, he says. ‘Which is a very important reminder that there is no one single truth.’ (Images courtesy Dan Archer / Voices from Nepal)

Art and Culture

Updated on Oct 11, 2024 01:35 pm IST

Lost and sound: Bhanuj Kappal writes on the new Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan album

Art and Culture

Updated on Sept 27, 2024 09:12 pm IST

Track changes in Bastar: Check out medleys by tribal artists, Mumbai band Daira

(Clockwise from top left) Lakheshwar Khudaram, Vineeta Pandey, Rahul Raikwar on the flute, and Soma playing the todi.

Art and Culture

Updated on Sept 21, 2024 01:27 pm IST

Nusrat fan from Kumaon breaks the caste barrier

Nusrat fan from Kumaon breaks the caste barrier

Updated on Sept 01, 2024 06:22 am IST

An experiment heard around the world:The making of L Subramaniam’s Global Fusion

The cover of the 1999 album.

Art and Culture

Updated on Aug 30, 2024 04:34 pm IST

As easy as 2 + 2?: Violinist L Subramaniam on his unique formula for music

At a recording studio in Los Angeles with George Harrison, in 1974.

Art and Culture

Updated on Aug 30, 2024 07:47 pm IST

Fellowship of the string: Bhanuj Kappal on pathbreaking violinist L Subramaniam

‘Using my method, anyone who is familiar with Carnatic music can write major orchestral pieces without having to go abroad to study Western music theory,’ says Subramaniam. His new book, Raga Harmony, has more on this.

Art and Culture

Updated on Aug 30, 2024 04:30 pm IST

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