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Most Innovative Square Mile on The Planet

If your travels take 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

It was fun to write about Janaki Seshadri, IITM's first woman undergraduate.

India’s IT Guy

F.C.Kohli says it is time for the government to encourage domestic software development—especially software that can "speak" Indian languages. "Only then can we develop India-unique application systems to improve efficiencies within the country," he says. "Then the computer can become a real instrument for national...

LiquiGlide

Frugal Indian housewives, who extract the very last traces of condiments from unyielding bottles and jars, will be the first to appreciate the genius of LiquiGlide, which Time magazine has named one of the “Best Inventions of the Year 2012.” Prof. Kripa Varanasi’s group at...

A Biological Battery

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 device embedded in the...

I’ve been called a girl geek

Angela Saini is an award-winning independent journalist based in London. Before going freelance, she worked as a reporter for the BBC, but her very first journalism job was with The Hindu's Frontline magazine in New Delhi. Later, in 2009, she took a trip to Mumbai...