Track a falling star

Why does a shooting star take millions of years to hit the Earth?

Dynamics of dust

A new study explains the phenomenon of dust rising from the lunar surface

Detecting leaks

A quick way to detect leaks in containers

Cosmic poser

The fate of our universe depends on one question: open or closed?

Found at last

Moon illusions

Why does the size of the moon diminish once it is up in the sky?

Manipulating atoms

Scientists devise a novel way to manoeuvre atoms

The apple holds ground

Gravity works between bodies kept at minute distances, just the way Newton calculated

Bigger yet

It is still the world's highest

Tibet is not losing its altitude, as stated by previous research

10th planet?

Large object of ice and rock found beyond Pluto

Somebody out there

Earth-like planets may exist

Precious discovery

The country's first micro-diamond deposit found

Elementary motion

Protons caught in action

1,000 balloons

To study wispy clouds

Hazy gains

Experiment to evaluate cloud seeding begins

Talking to aliens

Tough coats

Development of new carbon thin films could translate into protective covering for a wide range of products

Genuine stuff

Lasers passed through a fluoride glass doped with rare elements could end the search for genuine three-dimensional images

Layered wonder

Ongoing work on metallic film multilayers could facilitate their already extensive use in industry

New isotopes on the block

A German heavy ion laboratory discovers new isotopes and also sights nickel 78, which has uses in nuclear as well as astrophysics

Frozen chaos

Experiments with superconducting wires in magnetic field could lead researchers on to a better understanding of that curious amorphous solid -- glass

Satellite link

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Rock-hard sandwiches

Thin film, no more than a few microns thick, can endow substances with hardness, magnetic, superconducting and optical properties

A quest for the best

A combination of optical microscopes and magnetic drives might be the answer to today's problems of data storage