Eco-friendly printing ink from vegetable oil

Next generation clean fuel

Wired to improve

New silicon-based solar cells  

Dawn captures gleaming, bright spots on Ceres

The NASA spacecraft will map the entire Ceres six times over the next two months

Artificial reality

Lack of research makes prosthetics too expensive for most Indians

Polymeristic world

Conducting polymers are modifying items of everyday use

Almond’s killer instinct

Nanoparticles prepared from the nut can help treat cancer

Lab on a chip

It can replace large, timeconsuming diagnostic tools

Sweet measures

New means of collecting honey will no longer destroy the entire honey comb

Bridging gaps

A simple procedure could save many villages from being off during the monsoons

Windowdr'essing techniques

Super smart self-cleaning windows are on the horizon

Garlic guard

Rubber soles for crops

Scrap tyres buried underground could reduce irrigation costs

Driving out weeds

A motorised device to uproot weeds

Relaying remedy

Money for the poor energises the rich

Peel power

A waste byproduct earlier, banana peels are now hailed as a new source of biogas

Cooking made easy

Exit time for sperm banks

A case for late pregnancies

Middle-aged mothers live an unusually long life

In favour of the pill

Emergency contraceptives are a better means to reduce the chances of pregnancy

Struck out

Scientists are attempting to deflect lightning by using specially engineered lasers

NET WORK

Guts of the ocean

Bullock power

The unborn pain

The foetus can hear, smell and is sensitive to taste, but can it also feel pain?