Science teacher

Book>>Canon The Beautiful Basics of Science by Natalie Angier Penguin India Rs 399

The silicon route

Book>>The Long Revolution The Birth and Growth of India's IT Industry by Dinesh C Sharma Harper Collins Rs 495

Common man's access to space

Small satellites are providing cost-effective and reliable means of space exploration

No hair-raising experience this

Betaine aldehyde oxidase

Biodegradable at last

Use of organic catalysts to usher in a new range of plastics  

The real magic beans

Drumstick seeds can clarify water up to 99.5 per cent

Invasion triggers evolution

A study on lizards shows evolutionary change can occur swiftly when two closely related species compete

Twist in tale

Human foot is as flexible as that of great apes

‘Reality is not as fixed as people like to think’

Neuroscientist Nadine Dijkstra talks to Down To Earth about reality and perception

New meat culture

Engineered meat is peeping out of the labs

A respite

Censorship>> Internet • Tajikistan

Be cautioned

Internet>> Google • China/West Asia

A new lease of life

Wikileaks>> Funds • Iceland

Irrational routes to science

Video>> Science • Virtual World

Autumn for neem

Insects that cause defoliation put neem trees at risk

Male flies to male

A gene transplant has been found to induce homosexual behaviour in male fruit flies

Pottety prosperity

Silken feed

Fungal boon

Wrinkles of smoke

Cigarette smoking causes increased risk of developing facial wrinkles

Phantom of imagination

A simple treatment for imagined pain in an amputated limb

Computer therapy

Plastic path to information

A new type of plastic cable developed in Japan could flood individual homes with information

Leapfrogging to doom

Human pressures are taking a toll of amphibians