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Scientists analyze a medieval alchemist’s kit and find a history-shifting element

In a quiet corner of a European museum, a set of stained crucibles and dusty glassware has forced historians to redraw the timeline of chemistry. When scientists analyzed this medieval alchemist’s kit ...

‘India’s First Radicals’ argues for a generous assessment of 19th-century Indian intellectual life

The men of Young Bengal emerge not as pale imitations of British liberals, but as creative political thinkers who addressed ...