Perfect ten

The apple holds ground

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

Bigger yet

Sword of small things

Molecular structures that 'bleed' harmful microbes to death

Prime achievement

100 per cent accurate computer algorithm to identify prime numbers

Sea change

Sea surface temperatures indirectly affect South Asian monsoons

Blacklisted

US tops pollution charts

ICAR researchers produce coconut palm plantlets using tissue culture

The study will have applications for the farming community

Big data on weather

Why private players are competing with governments

Global reports on biodiversity, land quality to be released in four days

The meeting that will see the launch has begun in Medellin, Columbia

Bumps found at the LHC could be ‘signs of new particle’

A similar bump found four years ago, had led to the discovery of the Higgs boson

Forbidden country

Website>> Baidu • China

Biblophile On Web

Online>> www.booksy.in

Bright idea

Catalysis breakthrough makes chemical production green

In censor’s web

SOFTWARE>>CENSORSHIP • Internet

Search ends in gangland

Google>> Lawsuit • Australia

Researchers’ horror act

Film>> Scientists • Antarctic

Game of hide and seek

Internet>> New York Times • The US/China

Eternal quest

Fascination and challenges of the search for extra-terrestrial life

Google flies in face of privacy rules

Website>> Google • Europe

Twitter grows conservative

Social Media>> Censorship • Twitter

Techno dystopia

Book>> Alone together • by Sherry Turkle • Basic Books • Rs 750

Love links

Pollutant-gobblers

Fuelled by alcohol