Optical fibres for storing data

Why water droplets stick to rose petals?

Fitting in

Fish evolved to adapt to their swimming environments  

China loses its patent

Human’s best friend originated from a wolf in West Asia  

Mars rover finds water

Images sent by NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter show dark streaks up to four metres wide running down the sides of some slopes on the …

A Modi motto on innovation

A simplistic formulation ignores the reality of India's research environment and the constraint it faces

Science communicators get awards for popularising subject

The award is to promote bridging gaps between scientists and lay man for better scientific communication

Punjab, a cradle of science popularisation in India

Punjab, which is holding the Indian Science Congress, not only produced some of the brightest scientific minds but also a great science communicator

Constant inconsistency

Sharper limits set on how much quantities so far considered to have a fixed value can vary

Laser duster

Checkmate

A matter of mass

The neutrino, an elementary particle, may not be massless, as assumed

Smooth cut

Checking fluid dynamics

Short-lived independence

Scientists may have had their first glance of a rare state of matter -- a quark-gluon plasma

No time to lose

Creating impressions

Aurora in the air

Gas for all seasons

Wired for superiority

The munchers

Squids of another kind

Spring back with force

A force to reckon

Light arrested

Light's speed is brought to zero. It could radically alter communication technology