When will Indian scientists unbolt?
Are Indian scientists really too busy to answer emails and phone calls? wonders Dinsa Sachan
‘Stem cells – more hype than hope’
Scientific community calls for more stringent regulation of basic stem cell research and clinical trials
Signs of the God particle found: CERN
Final findings either confirming or denying the existence of the Higgs boson expected by end of 2012
Quake Escape
Geoscientist Harsh Gupta speaks to Dinsa Sachan on the need for an early warning system for earthquakes
Plastic makes little girls cranky
Research links bisphenol A, used in plastic bottles, with behavioural disorders in three-year-old girls
New cancer risk
WHO links excess mobile phone use to cancer; experts divided on health impact of radio frequencies
Hanging by a silk
It’s flexible yet tougher than a bullet-proof jacket. Are we anywhere near deciphering the fibre?
Animal sacrifice
150 million animals are killed for research worldwide. Do humans really benefit?
The thalidomide story explained
How a drug prescribed for nausea in pregnant women led to severe limb defects in their babies
Cancer research goes 3D
3D cell cultures may help understand the disease better
Identity crisis
Classification debate hurts conservation of Himalayan wolf
Make way for Indian probiotics
Scientists root for probiotics containing indigenous bacteria
Code of conduct for space
EU drafts law to govern space activities as countries increase explorations
Nobel in Physics for men who defined time
David Wineland and Serge Haroche awarded
Stem cell breakthrough gets Nobel in medicine
British scientist John B Gurdon and his Japanese counterpart Shinya Yamanaka honoured