Predating the Aztec Empire, Merton College Library in Oxford has been used by everyone from celebrated 14th-Century mathematicians to JRR Tolkien. In an exclusive interview with...
World DNA Day falls on 25 April: On 25 April 1953, Watson and Crick published an article, in the acclaimed journal “Nature” titled “Molecular structure of...
REVIEWED BY Prof. Rajiva Wijesinha Earlier this year, I sent her most recent book by an old friend, Kamala Wijeratne. Death of the Sperm Whale is...
On the occasion of World Earth Day, the conversation around sustainability often turns to forests, oceans, and climate. Yet, one of the most critical resources sustaining...
With no military quick-fix in sight to the ongoing, convoluted West Asian conflict it ought to be clear to the rationally inclined that there is no...
There is a particular stillness in Sri Lanka’s forests, after dusk — a kind of hushed expectancy where shadows lengthen, cicadas soften their chorus, and the...
We first saw him on the small screen in January 1986 – a relatively raw, totally untrained and a very nervous 24-year-old presenting ‘Bonsoir’ on ITN....
Yes, why not! We all look for glowing skin but what about glowing hair? Check these out and you will find your hair shiny … and...
(Speech delivered, in Colombo, by His Eminence Malcolm Cardinal Ranjith at the Seventh Year Commemoration of the Easter Sunday Bomb Victims) Most Venerable Omalpe Sobitha Nayaka...
It has become fashionable to criticise the US for its recent conduct toward Iran. This is not an attempt to defend or rationalise the US’s actions....