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Most Innovative Square Mile on The Planet

If your travels bring you to Boston, do take the T – the first subway system in the United States, built in 1897 – to get around town. Get down at the Kendall/MIT station on the Red Line – yes, this is the stop for...

Old Sarayuite

Picture taken on 15, July 1966, at the inauguration of Alakananda Hostel at IIT, Madras Janaki Seshadri is to the immediate left of Ujjal Singh, Governor of Tamil Nadu. In 1966, Janaki Seshadri arrived at the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras (IITM), excited to be...

Quark

Quark, a boardless eatery at the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, was an insider destination. Deep inside the campus, flanked by hostels, the canteen would open late in the evening. As students, we went there for an after-dinner snack or a hot drink, so we...

Erdos visits Madras

On a winter’s day in January 1975, two men walked down the sandy stretch of the Marina Beach in Chennai. It was still afternoon, but there was a breeze blowing, and they had the place pretty much to themselves. One was a teenager, a...

Forgotten Daughters

Next time you are at a social gathering, try this little experiment. Ask friends and family to name a female scientist. Most will come up with the name of Nobel laureate Marie Curie; some may mention the unsung Rosalind Franklin. No one seems to...

A Biological Battery

Cambridge, MA (November, 2012) Plugging into sources of energy within our body — such as heat, internal motion or metabolites — to power implanted medical devices has long been the goal of biomedical engineers. Now researchers based in Cambridge, Massachusetts have demonstrated that a sensing...