The gods created scents; humans make perfumes. Naked and frail, they survive only by artifice (trickery). Jean GionoTweet In the late 1960s, Jean-Claude Ellena, an apprentice perfumer in France, tried to reproduce Eau Sauvage, a…
Dr. Mildred S. Dresselhaus, of Lincoln Laboratory, who has achieved prominence as a solid-statephysicist has been appointed Abby Rockefeller Mauzé Visiting Professor at the MassachusettsInstitute of Technology, read a small news item in the Boston…
At first glance, Roxxxy “the world’s first sex robot,” which was unveiled in 2010, looked no different from existing sex dolls. The robot, designed by a former artificial intelligence engineer at Bell Labs, could, however,…
The first time he saw the colour, the material scientist could not believe his eyes. Back in 2009, when Prof. M.A. Subramanian of Oregon State University asked his new graduate student to grind a trio…
Book Bright Galaxies, Dark Matter, and Beyond: The life of astronomer Vera Rubin Ashley Jean Yeager VERA RUBIN began her career at a time when women were denied access to telescopes at leading observatories. Eventually…
Four years after the anthology Madras on my Mind, A City in Stories, here is another Chennai-centric collection, but by a single author. In her debut collection of short stories, Half a Kilo Mixture, Ranjitha…