Fresh lease

Switching speeds

Scientists develop a new switch to revolutionise fibre-opti techniques

Making 'em say yes

All Silk

Rise and fall of a pathogen

How did tuberculosis cease to be a deadly killer in the West?

Icy fuel

Blessed drops

Seeds of health

Ironing out iron

The daily dose of iron pill intake to regain health has of late been questioned by researchers

Plastic ploys

Dendrimers are about to revolutionise the age of polymers

'Stick' to clean teeth

The much derided chewing stick has finally found a proponent

Healthy link

India's health sector would be taken care of by efficient computerlsed systems

The cool choice

Absorption cooling could be the answer to peak-time electrical loads

Final shift

Besting pests

Demystifying migraine

Brain scaps lift a little the veils off throbbing headaches

Self-shelter

Right rhythm

Genetic vaccine

Fungal flair

Using fungi in dressings for faster healing of wounds

Hydrogen motion

Coral cure

A biornaterial based on coral's structure to set broken bones

High protein pulse

Pike sense

Advanced ancestry

Fresh research advances the date of human ancestors