Exotic denizens of the particle zoo

From ancient Greece to the world of today, humans have always believed that the amazing diversity of objects in the universe can be interpreted …

New stars on the horizon

An exciting new discovery might lead to a confirmation of the presence of the farthest known galaxy

Top quirk

It took almost 2 decades of squinting at the microverse to finally pin down, on March 2, an accomplished atomic escape artist, the top quark

Scientists under a microscope

A department of science and technology report reveals that India's boffins are academically a lax lot

The secret of carbon nanotubes

Successful experiments in measuring individual carbon nanotubes opens pathways for manufacture of a diverse range of products

The mysterious planets

Tadpole like objects in the Helix nebula, detected by the Hubble telescope, suggest the presence ofhitherto unseen objects in the universe

Atom: the whole picture

X-ray holography, a neoteric way of studing atomic configurations, promises to give a three-dimensional picture of the arrangement of atoms in a …

Galileo says...

The six-year-long wait for the Galileo trip to Jupiter started paying off scientific returns last fortnight, as the data sent by the probe was …

A whole new world!

Why are we and the universe around us made of matter and not antimatter? Scientists at last create antimatter particles to lead us on to a …

Elusive no more

A Japanese experiment in thefield of neutrino detection has come as manna for physicists and cosmologists, opening before them immense …

Composition: critical

While the aircraft industry flies high with composites, one question nags engineers: are they really safe?

Light matters

Every kid knows that E=mc 2 . But this time, physicists are working backwards, converting energy into matter

A perfect ten, is it?

Two groups of scientists have claimed there is proof of a tenth planet in the solar system. Astrophysicists are sceptical

Challenge of the balance

When will scientists stop? The latest is the 'nanobalance', which would measure the mass of microorganisms and viruses

Explosions in outer space

Gamma-ray bursts occur daily and are million times brighter than the galaxy

Powerful eye

Unlike orbiters

All aboard for the Red Planet

In tiny specks

...is written the history of the Solar system's formation and life on the Earth

Lab on the lap

Indian scientists develop a low-cost, easy-to-use physics lab

From the blurbs

Bubbles from sound

Fresh lease

Switching speeds

Scientists develop a new switch to revolutionise fibre-opti techniques

Plastic ploys

Dendrimers are about to revolutionise the age of polymers