Physicists are using quantum math to understand what happens when black holes collide. In a surprise, they’ve shown that a single particle can describe a collision’s entire gravitational wave.

Marx’s idea that societies were naturally egalitarian and communal before farming is widely influential and quite wrong

A new exhibition spotlights 70 examples of sensual imagery discovered in the Roman city

Every limb of him had a language.

Sociologist Radhakamal Mukerjee helped shape a new view of sociology from an Indian perspective, contributing to the independence movement.

Yandex, the country’s biggest tech company, could look at India for growth

The ‘disturbed areas’ and ‘illegal migrants’ of today’s India were yesterday’s ‘scheduled districts’ and ‘criminal tribes.’ The line between the past and present is straighter than you think — A new story from India to the world, each week, on FiftyTwo.in

In recent years, legal scholars have advanced powerful critiques of mass incarceration. Academics have indicted America’s prison system for entrenching racism and exacerbating economic...

Statistics in the Progressive Era were more than mere signs of a managerial government’s early efforts to sort and categorize its citizens.