Soaring greener heights
Surrey University in the UK, specialising in satellite engineering, is developing a hybrid rocket motor that uses liquid and solid fuel, both of …
Galileo says...
The six-year-long wait for the Galileo trip to Jupiter started paying off scientific returns last fortnight, as the data sent by the probe was …
Necessary evil
Otherwise considered vital for human health, vitamin A is now believed to endanger the well-being of new borns, if consumed in excess
A shot in the arm
Humankind may soon to face to face with a miracle if the dozen odd cancer vaccine trials, currently on in the United States, emerge successful
Striking out strokes
The discovery of a new drug, TPA, provides succour to hapless nervous stroke victims. Most importantly, the drug helps in arresting serious and …
Lend me your ears
Hitachi, the Japanese electronics corporation is admirably manipulating the wonders of science for the much ignored field of telecom for the deaf.…
Elusive no more
A Japanese experiment in thefield of neutrino detection has come as manna for physicists and cosmologists, opening before them immense …
The cholesterol dilemma
High levels of cholesterol in the blood can prove risky. But low levels could be even more dangerous. Well, high or low, cholesterol seems to …
Drip as you trip
Patients hooked on to intravenous drug delivery systems have so far had to confine themselves to their beds. But a new portable infusion pump …
Green is the colour of money
While the 21st century promises to herald the advent of the era of ecological reality, a sustained emphasis on resource efficiency stands out …
Talking about sex
Male development is crucially dependent on the expression of a gene present on the Y cromosome
Cause for alarm
Studies show that a crop pest may evolve resistance to a biological pesticide Bt toxin more rapidly than believed
Sweet smell of sugar
Researchers have developed a painless technique for diabetes patients to regulate their glucose levels
Flower on order
Genetic engineering can soon make plants bloom on cue and change the shape of a plant as required
Potatoes to the rescue
Genetically engineered potatoes can help prevent diabetes and tackle diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis
Star's blueprint
The mapping of the magnetic field of TX Camelopardalis can provide important insights into the behaviour of stars
Byte by byte
To increase disk drive capacity, both silicon chips and magnetic-memory disks will have to get better
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
Elvis inside
Tired of hearing yourself sing? Well, a new software can give you the voice you always adored but could never have
Keep talking
Once the electropalatograph hits the market, that's what people with speech problems will do easily: talk
Composition: critical
While the aircraft industry flies high with composites, one question nags engineers: are they really safe?
Light matters
Every kid knows that E=mc 2 . But this time, physicists are working backwards, converting energy into matter
The reanimators
Best out of waste? These scientists have taken it further, making a supercomputer out of electronic "junk"
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