New panel can make buildings reflect heat, cut cooling cost

Phosphorus can kill deadly bacterium that hits citrus plants

Computer-based methods can accurately predict drug side-effects

But Indian government does not think it is significant

Experiments aim at developing materials that are superconductive at close to room temperature

Radioactive material can be pinpointed remotely

Multiple habitats helped tetrapods grow and diversify

Tiniest of errors in sex cell division can lead to abnormalities in offspring. Arshad Desai from Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, San Diego, USA, filmed egg cell division for the first time. He explained to Manupriya the division mechanism and how it can lead to birth defects

Black carbon from diesel, not from biomass, warms the globe

At current rate seawater will turn acidic by century end

With the 1989 Exxon leak still trickling oil, the Gulf of Mexico puts scientists in the worst fix