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A 10,000-year clock, a future library: Grand creative projects set in the future

Updated on Jan 10, 2026 15:54 IST

Inside the Clock of the Long Now, being built in Texas. Designed to keep time for 10,000 years, its century hand will advance once every 100 years.

Clone rangers: Meet the two Indians behind the world’s first self-cloning rice

Venkatesan Sundaresan and Imtiyaz Khanday. (Jael Mackendore/ UC Davis)

Updated on Jan 10, 2026 14:31 IST

The controlled chaos of Geese: Sanjoy Narayan writes on the rock quartet

Geese frontman Cameron Winter, 23, is the gravitational centre of the band. He has been compared to Radiohead’s Thom Yorke.

Updated on Jan 9, 2026 13:12 IST

A tribute to a mighty heart: Deepanjana Pal writes on Ikkis

Agastya Nanda plays Second Lieutenant Arun Khetarpal, who was 21 when he refused to follow orders to retreat during the 1971 India-Pakistan war, eventually blocking a breakthrough for Pakistan. It was a victory for India that he and his tank’s radio operator, Sowar Nand Singh, paid for with their lives.

Updated on Jan 9, 2026 12:29 IST

Save as...: Why do women invest as they do, are there lessons in this for us?

NO WAY UP?: Women tend to find their savings stuck in a loop, in something akin to the Penrose stairs. Most of their money is held in more-liquid instruments such as gold and fixed deposits. Representation remains very low in high-growth instruments such as real-estate and business holdings and speculative instruments such as cryptocurrency, (HT Illustration: Rahul Pakarath)

Updated on Jan 9, 2026 12:13 IST

Haul of fame: Could your home hold an artefact of national importance?

Matchboxes from the collection of Samirkumar Arya of Valsad, Gujarat.

Updated on Jan 4, 2026 04:34 IST

Sight, sound, smell, space: How humans have tracked time across millennia

Big Ben, completed in 1859, predates Greenwich Mean Time (agreed upon in 1884). (Bloomberg)

Updated on Jan 3, 2026 13:33 IST

Look ma, no hands: Rachel Lopez pays a visit to India’s atomic clocks

The atomic clocks are expensive, and need constant monitoring. But they are India’s pride, says Poonam Arora, head of the IST Metrology Division. (Raj K Raj / HT Photo)

Updated on Jan 3, 2026 13:29 IST

Tick talk: Rachel Lopez takes a trip through time, as IST turns 120

(HT Illustration: Puneet Kumar)

Updated on Jan 3, 2026 13:24 IST

Still in love with an old flame: Poonam Saxena writes on Sholay

Sholay: The Final Cut premieres in Bologna, Italy. (Film Heritage Foundation)

Updated on Jan 2, 2026 13:21 IST

The prize is right: Looking forward to wins, in a football World Cup year

It would be great to see a new team – Portugal? – win. This will, after all, likely be Cristiano Ronaldo’s final Cup. (Getty Images)

Updated on Jan 2, 2026 12:53 IST

Smog and mirrors: A Wknd interview with an aerosol scientist and advisor to WHO

(Image courtesy Queensland University of Technology)

Updated on Jan 2, 2026 11:39 IST

Can tech bring joy into classrooms?: Kashyap Kompella on AI

A still from the video for Pink Floyd’s Another Brick in the Wall (1979).

Updated on Dec 27, 2025 13:53 IST

Hot and code: Simran Mangharam writes on dating and AI, in 2025

In the Korean animated sci-fi film Lost in Starlight (2025), an aspiring astronaut pursues love amid a mission to Mars. No matter who or where we are, no matter the era or the hashtags, the quest tends to remain the same.

Updated on Dec 27, 2025 11:53 IST

The cracks that define us: Charles Assisi looks back on 2025

Edward Hopper’s Nighthawks (1942). There is no changing the solitary nature of our journey. (Wikimedia)

Updated on Dec 27, 2025 11:51 IST

Tapping into a seam of gold: Sanjoy Narayan on the best tracks of ’75

Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody was ambition made audible; the sound of artists refusing to be confined even by the rules of rock.

Updated on Dec 27, 2025 10:55 IST

Swords drawn: K Narayanan on 2025 and the world of videogames

A still from Ghost of Yotei.

Updated on Dec 27, 2025 10:06 IST

A whirlwind food tour: Vir Sanghvi lists stellar restaurants of 2025

The pumpkin ricotta and black rice risotto at Sienna, Kolkata, which started out as a café above a shop.

Updated on Dec 26, 2025 08:18 IST

Big picture energy: Deepanjana Pal on the best things to watch, from across 2025

Created by Vince Gilligan of Breaking Bad, Pluribus is science-fiction at its most elegant.

Updated on Dec 26, 2025 09:30 IST

A time to reckon with the gods of our making: A year-end essay by R Sukumar

(HT Illustration)

Updated on Dec 26, 2025 09:28 IST

Sleigh what? Weird and wonderful Christmas traditions from around the world

(HT Illustration: Puneet Kumar via Midjourney)

Updated on Dec 20, 2025 16:43 IST

The numbers game: Charles Assisi writes on our tussles with time

An illusion is eventually just that. There is a truth we must all acknowledge in the end: The body keeps its own ledger. It updates itself without consulting the mind. (Shutterstock)

Updated on Dec 20, 2025 13:51 IST

A swing and a prayer: Rudraneil Sengupta goes behind the scenes at a WPL auction

(HT Illustration)

Updated on Dec 20, 2025 13:47 IST

It’s that term of the year: Our pick of the best viral words of 2025

Don’t say ‘Good lord’; try ‘alamak’.

Updated on Dec 20, 2025 13:36 IST

Batter and verse: In India, Christmas involves cake runs, kolam, folk songs

(HT Illustration: Puneet Kumar via Midjourney)

Updated on Dec 20, 2025 16:14 IST

Walking around Helsinki with Miles Davis: Download Central by Sanjoy Narayan

‘There are albums that become sonic companions, their architecture mirroring one’s surroundings. For me, in Helsinki, Davis’s A Tribute to Jack Johnson is that album.’

Updated on Dec 19, 2025 14:47 IST

Stealth management: Deepanjana Pal writes on Dhurandhar

Akshaye Khanna as the gangster Rehman Dakait, being carefree and dancing to the song Fa9la.

Updated on Dec 19, 2025 14:16 IST

The Web Beneath the Waves: Wknd chats with author of new book on undersea cables

‘We don’t realise that 95% of international data traffic goes through undersea cables. Stop to consider that, and the internet suddenly becomes something that’s extremely territorial, and vulnerable,’ Subramanian says.

Updated on Dec 20, 2025 08:57 IST

Why Raj Kapoor’s was a wonderful world: A tribute by Poonam Saxena

Raj Kapoor and Nargis in the song Pyar Hua Ikrar Hua from Shree 420 (1955).

Updated on Dec 13, 2025 13:02 IST

Air apparent: Swetha Sivakumar on the clever science behind air-fresheners

A really good air-freshener can do more than infuse a space and mask odours; it can target odour molecules too.

Updated on Dec 13, 2025 12:58 IST

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