Stage set for armageddon
Two wheat genes that confer absolute resistance to lethal Ug99 stem rust strain identified
Confusing signal
As the government rushes to digitise cable TV network, analysts say it will only add to the burden of consumers
Our Frugal Innovation
India is working on a model of inclusive innovation to provide solutions for people at the bottom of the heap. Will it work?
A reprieve for the paper industry
Jute fibre, which could provide a solution to the increasing crisis in procuring wood pulp, could be science's gift to the paper industry.
New role for earthworms as sewage cleaners
A Pune-based research institute has developed a process that employs earthworms to remove impurities from waste water.
Mothballing nitrogen
Some now ways of using fortilisers which will prevent nitrogen seepage into the water table
Umbilical discord
As a result of air pollution in Delhi, strains of toxic metals like lead and cadmium are increasingly finding their way into the womb
The sunny side
Another 100 years and the world will begin to suffer from high fever. Utilising solar energy may prevent a catastrophe
Lead(ing) to disaster
Environmentally-hazardous backyard smelting units swell as multinationals fail to recycle used batteries
Time for a facelift ?
A German company claims its silicon-based technology can restore the Taj Mahal to its past glory. But some experts doubt its effectiveness
Virtual reality
A new computing laboratory can project larger than real life images of human body's smallest part
NASA gets ready to say farewell to InSight spacecraft on Mars
Lander losing power after 4 years on the Red Planet as dust gathers over solar panels
2022 Chemistry Nobel awarded for ‘click chemistry’, which has possible applications in healthcare
Carolyn Bertozzi, Morten Meldal and Barry Sharpless worked on click chemistry, or linking chemicals together, and biorthogonal reactions, …
Is SARS-CoV-2 becoming more stable? A new study tracks virus’ evolution
The virus also showed signs of stabilising around some proteins, according to the study
Book Digest: Mapping the COVID-19 story, human behaviour driving infections and more
From accounts of previous epidemics that should have prepared us for COVID-19 to history of poverty in the US, DTE tracks contemporary books on …
Space Race 2.0: Are we ready to stay in outer space?
Habitation designs and technologies are almost ready to make life possible on other planets
Ancient humans may have first walked upright on trees, not land
Researchers look at chimpazees to understand bipedalism; New study contradicts earlier theories
Yash Pal Abrol, pioneer in nitrogen research, dies at 84
His most recent contribution was the Indian Nitrogen Assessment in 2017, which led India to pilot the first ever UN resolution on sustainable …
Astronomers used machine learning to mine data from South Africa’s MeerKAT telescope: What they found
MeerKAT is an array of 64 large antenna dishes that uses radio signals from space to study the evolution of the universe
Does space weather cause flight delays? New study spots links
Flight delay problems can be relieved to some extent if flight scheduling reasonably considers space weather effects
A tiny radioactive capsule is lost on a highway in Western Australia. Here’s what you need to know
The capsule contains caesium-137, a radioactive isotope which spits out electrons and high-energy photons
Seeing fewer stars? LEDs might be increasing light pollution
New lighting technologies might have increased it by 10% every year in last decade, finds study
Satellite to monitor methane emissions not in pipeline, but will be happy to build one: ISRO
ISRO to have a busy year with missions to the sun and moon as well as unmanned spaceflight
On 3 decades of Pale Blue Dot, Nasa cleans up iconic image
The Jet Propulsion Laboratory of Nasa published a new version of image taken by Voyager 1 on its 30th anniversary
Scientists provide new insight into bipolar disorder
Researchers find that patients carry some residual impairment in terms of processing of information even in their normal phases