M-Theory In Two Nutshells

Existence, God, the future, time travel, survival on earth—some of the oldest, and newest, queries are...

Leap Into Our Branches

Paleogenetics is evolutionary sleuthing. The way DNA sequencing throws light back into the foggy paths of...

Gloriously Sinful Are Our Ways

The seven deadly sins—no-go areas for us for millennia—are picked threadbare with a wealth of...

His Life, And Rocket Science

Nambi Narayanan’s career in ISRO is also a history of that national centre of excellence. Then, there are...

Stephen Hawking Diary

A brief history of time and a long history of fame: RIP Stephen Hawking

Like The Memory Of Yambo

No subject is under the radar of Eco’s voracious opinion-making. And a lightly worn erudition gathers in...

The Stars Have Cast Light

A 100 years back, a group of American women changed astronomy. Their story, hidden under a sexist shroud, is...

Did Marie Curie Love Pink?

Society judged women’s scientific temperament harshly. This book explains the latest science—spurious and...

Behind The Golden Boughs

Paleo-biologist Hope Jahren is at hand to show the wonder that is a tree. Among the thick foliage hangs the...

A Mercurial Orbit Laid To Rest By A Genius

An accessible book tells of Newton’s perfect theory, its sole blemish, the centuries-long search for the...

Blue Trousers And A Heavy Payload

K. Radhakrishnan mixes the personal and the professional admirably. But his ISRO is a sanitised one and its...

A Man Of Science, But With No Art Of Storytelling

The autobiography of one of our top scientists avoids scientific matters, or even the state of Indian...

An Infinity Of Questions

The more we endeavour with science, the more we realise we do not know

Weak In Math

An interesting attempt to communicate the beauty of mathematics using the medium of a novel. But there is...

A Head For Numbers

A fictional retelling of the life of G.H. Hardy and one of science's great romances: his discovery of...

Race To The Finish

What Was That Bang?

Lucid answers to the eternal questions on what lies beyond