Anybody home?
The discovery of two planets orbiting stars similar to the sun has thrown up intriguing possibilities of life existing in the outer space
Two hoots to AIDS
A controversial marrow transplant operation in the US, a faulty gene in a dormant strain of the HIV isolated in Australia, the Zinc Finger …
Sweet smell of sugar
Researchers have developed a painless technique for diabetes patients to regulate their glucose levels
Caught you!
It is now possible to detect the most inconspicuous mutants -- even those having only slight aberrations
Confused roots
Asian or African, the origin is the same, say researchers who trace the first Chinese to the dark continent
Hammer of God
The collision of a meteorite with the Earth produced energy about a million times more than the largest earthquake ever recorded
Pressure play
If stress can reactivate latent viruses in mice, it can have the same effect in humans, say American scientists
Smooth operators
Tiny snake-like robotic appendages that worm into the human body and perform complicated operations. That's surgery of the future
Walk on the ocean
Jupiter's moon Ganymede shows hints of what was once an ocean. But it is still too early to say whether the satellite supports life
Keep talking
Once the electropalatograph hits the market, that's what people with speech problems will do easily: talk
Light matters
Every kid knows that E=mc 2 . But this time, physicists are working backwards, converting energy into matter
Tales in stone
Palaeontologists have found what they had been looking for: a near-perfect dinosaur fossil from the Jurassic Age. They might finally be able to …
Molly, the girl?
Science is probably going to ensure that people will be cloned eventually as was Dolly, the sheep?
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
Bridging the gap
The World Science Conference in Budapest calls for a closer cooperation between the North and the South
Search for the beginning
With the launch of fuse, scientists hope to understand the processes that led to the formation and evolution of stars, including our …
Challenge of the balance
When will scientists stop? The latest is the 'nanobalance', which would measure the mass of microorganisms and viruses
The missing link
Why do humans have such large brains? Switching over to eating meat may have been responsible
New blood in old veins
As if by magic, scientists turn brain cells into blood: an achievement that could let cells develop their own tissues
Counter Productive
The post-Pokhran sanctions on Indian scientific institutions by the West could be a blessing in disguise for the country and its scientists
Cancerous route
Better cancer drugs may be on the anvil with researchers finding a cell protein that helps cancer spread
Chips make them rich
Princeton University scientists come up with cost-effective technology for making better silicon chips
Paperless news
Scientists in the us have developed an ultra-thin electronic display that could well transform into an e-newspaper. The black and white display …
Book notice: Farmer-led Participatory Research - Cases from Western India
Centralised models of development don't work; local knowledge and traditional methods do, especially in the realms of farming and water …
"We have done precious little"
Tado Karlo, professor of physics, Northeast Regional Institute of Science and Technology, Nirjuli, Arunachal Pradesh tells Nitin Sethi that …