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As the invasive chital eats away at Andamans’ forest cover, a look at what invasive alien species are, and why they pose a threat to a place's natural flora and fauna.

Dennis Dalton’s ‘Indian Ideas of Freedom’ is an extended edition of his 1982 book which deals with how some of India’s greatest modern thinkers conceptualised the idea of freedom.

In 1942, the U.S. Army gave 32 Hispano families on the Pajarito Plateau 48 hours to leave their homes and land, in some cases at gunpoint, to build the lab that would create the world's first atomic bombs, according to relatives of those removed and a former lab employee.

Using state-of-the-art modeling software and recently uncovered historical weather data, the study’s authors say that radioactive fallout from the Trinity test reached 46 states, Canada and Mexico within 10 days of detonation.

Recent data from the Department of Science and Technology (DST) showed women made up 28% of participants in 2018-19 in extramural Research and Development (R&D) projects, up from 13% in 2000-01.

With the cheetah project taking off in India, the author decided to bring the story to date. The Story of India’s Cheetahs is a revised edition of out-of-print The End of a Trail, with reworked and new text.

Linda Jaivin’s The Shortest History of China is an ambitious attempt to cover thousands of years of Chinese history and politics — from the mythic origins of the Han people through several dynasties, empires, and invasions to communism and finally, Xi’s China — in just about 250 pages.