Cleaning up the plastic act

Researchers are taking the dirt out of plastic

Love through catastrophe

Cold signatures in wood

A 300 year-old tree from Kashmir reveals that Europe's Little Ice Age had even affected India

Omens of deluge

Estimates of sea-level rises vary considerably

The beauty myth

Blame it on the genes

Some disorders of the nervous system for which faulty genes are responsible:

Seeding a la bulls

Transistors' hour of departure

A cheap fluidic alternative to a semiconducting transistor is set to invade the market

Brothers in arms

These robots know what teamwork means

Tilted in North's favour

A geological explanation as to why the South pays with a hole over the Antarctic for the North's misdemeanours

Self-purification

The world's biggest fresh water system, the Great Lakes, straddling Canada and the United States, are cleansing themselves of pollutants

India gassed

Climate changes induced by increasing concentration of greenhouse gases could adversely affect the country's crop yields

Unassuming bodyguards

Altering the structure of peptides can fashion them into loyal and hard-to-beat soldiers of the body's immune syustem

Molecular games

First there was the buckminster fullerene molecule, shaped like a football. Now, scientists have produced a tennis ball look-alike

The fruits of confusion

An Australian shrub has leaves that mimic its fruit to fool the voracious white-tailed black cockatoo

Jaldi dhan will transform drought-hit regions

New varieties of rice that mature in just about two months, can prove to be a boon for marginal farmers in drought-prone areas of India.

Monthly madness

A group of American psychiatrists have proclaimed that some women suffer from a mental illness that usually begins a week before their menstrual …

Preserving for posterity

A group of scientists is attempting to collect and store genetic material from various tribes on the verge of extinction in an effort to preserve …

Sudden jump in infant cancer cases

Doctors are finding it difficult to cope with the increasing incidence of thyroid cancer among children -- innocent victims of radioactivity.

Sweet treatment

A cheaper method uses glucose and enzymes to filter water

Appearances are deceptive

Doped and deadly

Fungi create fertile soils

Glue to bind bridges

It wasn't the asteroid