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What does the world’s first AI worm mean for you?

Updated on Jun 7, 2025 10:00 IST

In the videogame It Takes Two, a rogue vacuum cleaner attacks players. It turns out to be a really difficult level to get past.

Gangs, exploding fingers, black markets: Check out the wild afterlife of trash

Waste piles up in Kenya. How did it get so bad? Well, it cost less than $3, in the 1970s, to bury a tonne of the West’s toxic effluents in Africa, says Alexander Clapp.

Updated on Jun 7, 2025 09:56 IST

‘Stolen’ chances: Deepanjana Pal writes on a gritty film’s scramble for space

Mia Maelzer as the impoverished mother Jhumpa, in Stolen (2023).

Updated on Jun 7, 2025 07:05 IST

Pentagrams, flames, runes: How come the same rules apply to all the demons?

A still from the TV series Supernatural (2005-20).

Updated on Jun 6, 2025 08:13 IST

Wood to iron to steel: The ancient history of the track

A view of the Corinth Canal, where a paved track once allowed ships to be hauled overland. (Adobe Stock)

Updated on Jun 6, 2025 08:09 IST

A sky train, a death rail: 200 years on, trains have come a long way

Part of the Trans-Siberian Railway in Russia, the longest single link in the world. (Getty Images)

Updated on Jun 6, 2025 08:06 IST

Iron maidens: 200 years after the first one, where will trains take us next?

The Pamban railway sea bridge, India’s first. (Shutterstock)

Updated on Jun 6, 2025 08:03 IST

‘People are too afraid of danger, discomfort’:Lessons in life from a mountaineer

Kakka at Mount Manaslu, his first 8,000er.

Updated on Jun 6, 2025 08:35 IST

Heartening to see singles find love in new little ways, says Simran Mangharam

Gru, the bumbling supervillain in Despicable Me (2010), sees a heart he didn’t know he had melt as he begins to build a life with his three adopted daughters.

Updated on May 31, 2025 09:42 IST

Bleeding blue: All that we are looking to extract from the oceans

The US NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration)’s remotely operated vehicle, Deep Discoverer, scans the seas around the Paganini underwater mountain in the Pacific. (Image NOAA)

Updated on May 31, 2025 09:39 IST

The end of a goalorious journey: Rudraneil Sengupta on Modric and De Bruyne

Luka Modric finishes his footballing career at the astonishing age of 39, still pencil-thin but with calves that now look like they were sculpted by Michelangelo. (AP)

Updated on May 31, 2025 09:36 IST

Stop, sob, scroll: A look at the viral formula of ‘crying videos’

A sadbait meme. With sadbait, grief is the product, and catharsis is the promised reward for the viewer.

Updated on May 31, 2025 17:20 IST

In India, the ‘Lost Generation’ was actually a generation that found its voice

Prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru addresses the midnight session of the Constituent Assembly on August 15, 1947. (HT Archives)

Updated on May 30, 2025 14:14 IST

The peak before the fall: Jazz, glamour, Gatsby and a short-lived Golden Age

A still from the series Fellow Travelers (2023), set in a fictional speakeasy called The Cozy Corner, in the 1940s.

Updated on May 30, 2025 14:13 IST

Trapped between two wars: The art of the Lost Generation

A still from The Great Gatsby (2013).

Updated on May 31, 2025 13:20 IST

What is Sustainable Fashion?: An excerpt from a book by designer Vino Supraja

Vino Supraja’s eponymous label uses natural fibres and pigments. She offers to buy items back from customers after 18 months, in exchange for purchase points. She recently won an award for her unusual fashion formula. (Photos by Deepak Renganathan)

Updated on May 30, 2025 11:46 IST

Designer Vino Supraja is winning awards for an unusual fashion formula

‘I’ve grown to accept that when I’m willing to let go, be dismantled and reassembled, good things happen to me,’ Supraja says. (Photo: Deepak Renganathan)

Updated on May 30, 2025 11:43 IST

Check out K Narayanan's pick of films that best capture the mood of the 1920s

The start of a great love affair: Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart in To Have and Have Not (1944), their first film together.

Published on May 29, 2025 14:10 IST

Check out K Narayanan’s top five tracks that capture the mood of the 1920s

A still from The Gay Divorcee (1934), starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, and featuring the Cole Porter classic, Night and Day.

Updated on May 30, 2025 09:11 IST

‘Dear diary, he’s doing it again’: Charles Assisi on journaling in third-person

Is that who I think it is?: Triple Self-Portrait (1960) by Norman Rockwell.

Updated on May 24, 2025 12:40 IST

New ear resolution: Sanjoy Narayan on the iconic Sennheiser HD 600 headphones

These humble German cans that can be bought for about $270 are the audiophile’s equivalent of a beat-up Fender guitar: a tool that melts into the art instead of stealing the spotlight.

Updated on May 24, 2025 12:34 IST

That means a lot...: Adam Jacot de Boinod on strange journeys words have taken

Ancient Greek gave us ‘enthusiasm’ – the second syllable drawn from ‘theos’. It was originally used for someone possessed by a divine or artistic frenzy. (Adobe Stock)

Updated on May 24, 2025 12:31 IST

UV vision, fire sensors, a QR code for love?: See how animals view the world

The mantis shrimp sees its coral world in colours so rich, it has 16 to 21 different photoreceptors (for our three). (Adobe Stock)

Updated on May 24, 2025 12:21 IST

Doctors by Nature: Read an excerpt from a book about how animals heal themselves

Updated on May 24, 2025 12:28 IST

Bug, MD: Meet the surgeons and doctors of the wild

(Adobe Stock)

Updated on May 24, 2025 12:25 IST

Blocked buster: Deepanjana Pal on the tussle over the release of Bhool Chuk Maaf

Bhool Chuk Maaf, starring Rajkummar Rao, needn’t have had such a crisis of confidence. With just a two-week window before it becomes available on streaming, the odds are now stacked against its theatrical run.

Updated on May 23, 2025 10:34 IST

Stranger than fiction: Inside the vibrant world of Gujarati pulp tales

The cover of The Blaft Anthology of Gujarati Pulp Fiction.

Updated on May 24, 2025 12:19 IST

What came before the UN?: In Egypt, China, ancient bids to administer the world

The remarkable Terracotta Army was crafted during the Qin dynasty, in the 3rd century BCE. At one point, this dynasty aimed to govern “all under heaven”. (Shutterstock)

Updated on May 23, 2025 10:29 IST

For best results: Why countries group together, despite the UN

A child on a swing outside a Kyiv building bombed by a Russian missile. When fading or dysfunctional multilateralism doesn’t meet a country’s interests, it will find other ways to exert influence or extract resources. This is where the role of the UN becomes vital. (Getty Images)

Updated on May 23, 2025 10:25 IST

An experiment UNdone: Prashant Jha writes on what ails the United Nations

(HT Imaging: Puneet Kumar)

Updated on May 23, 2025 10:21 IST

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