Happiness Ancient Indian Wisdom for a Restless Age Jahnvi Borgohain looks at a variety of approaches to happiness. Across ...
Scientists have uncovered what appears to be the scattered remains of an ancient continent buried beneath the Indian Ocean.
Once a remote desert expanse, AlUla in Saudi Arabia is now a global heritage tourism hotspot. Its ancient Nabataean tombs and ...
A vast, mostly submerged landmass in the South Pacific, Zealandia, is now recognized as Earth's eighth continent. Recent ...
Bharath ‘Land’ing explores the deep relationship between land, identity, and conflict in the Indian subcontinent - from ...
Archaeologists have discovered a civilisation in Argentina that had evaded all detection till now. The early humans lived here thousands of years ago, yet scientists had never seen any signs of them ...
The planetarium turns 100 this year. What came before the giant domes, with imagery of galaxies, asteroids and meteors zooming across them? Take a look.
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The Ten Best Science Books of 2025

From “experimental archaeology” to the mysterious appeal of exploration, the wide-ranging subjects detailed in these titles captivated Smithsonian magazine’s science contributors this year ...
Long before maps were drawn, before coins were minted and long before trade routes had names, one simple mineral quietly ...
Land provides a firm footing to fragile human existence. It is the medium that sources from other elements to sustain life.
Even the oceans aren’t level. Hidden beneath the swells, Earth’s gravity subtly rises and falls—leaving a quiet “dip” in the Indian Ocean that scientists are ...
Tucked away in the rolling hills of south-central Oklahoma lies Sulphur, a town so enchanting it feels like stumbling upon a secret that somehow escaped the notice of travel influencers and weekend ...