Toward the end of the poem The Epic of Gilgamesh, the brilliant, demagogic protagonist dives down to the “Ocean Below” to retrieve the “Plant of Heartbeat” that will turn him young again ...

Christian Bök and Lydia Contreras have encoded poetry within the DNA of Deinococcus radiodurans, an extremely resilient ...

THE Dewan Rakyat descended into chaos when PAS president Tan Sri Abdul Hadi Awang (PN-Marang) implied during his debate that Kuala Lumpur's problems were due to DAP and the unity government.

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At 28, Palou is chasing racing immortality, and doing s o in a businesslike fashion that should terrify his competitors.

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A heartwarming video of a Russian girl and her Indian friend singing a Kannada poem while cycling through a Bengaluru neighbourhood is going viral on social media. In the now-viral video, the two ...

Rajula Srivastava's journey to winning the Maryam Mirzakhani New Frontiers Prize for blending harmonic analysis and number theory.

Some scientists say a Dyson Sphere could bring humans back from the dead. This cosmic megastructure may be the key to immortality.

People, generally football enthusiasts, often ask me if I have access to old photographs from the back issues of this newspaper. The answer is that I do but the archive, lovingly collated some years ...