Sticky fibres

No sweat

Guiding light

Scientists 'guide' light through a new generation of fibre optic cables

Failed project

Heat over ice

BORN FREE

New anthrax medicine

Financial lure

Namibia

An island away

Larger forests can help control extinction, not epidemics

Freeze frame

New forms of ice discovered

Apollo's Nazi connections

First expedition in Intenational Polar Year 2007-08 begins

Before Adam came Zinj

Edison’s estranged apprentice

An eccentric genius who thought big with electricity

Elimination kit

For the American bollworm, a common cotton pest

A fault discovered

Scientists spot a new tectonic fault in Nepal

The truth about frogs

Scientists in the US are trying to find out the reason fordeformities in frogs

A robot for the deep

Scientists in the US have developed a device that would help search toxic wastes at seabed

How scientists solved a centuries-old mystery

UK scientists discovered a rare form of star collision

Lessons animals teach

How animals treat themselves with various plants provide medicinal leads to scientists.

Hopes dashed

Underwater "windmill"

Indian officials optimistic

Setting new limits to scientific knowledge

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