Understanding earthquakes

Ancient Venus was potentially habitable for three billion years: Study

The planet had stable temperatures — between a maximum of about 50°C and a minimum of about 20°C — and water worth a shallow ocean

A mobile app that can help you track Zero Shadow Days

An app is enabling school children to understand history of measuring time and navigation

Taiwan’s earthquake kills at least 4, injures 225; powerful aftershocks on cards

The quake has sparked off several aftershocks, which are likely to continue in the coming two weeks

Remembering Virendra Kumar: a humanist, botanist and scholar

Associated with the Chipko movement, Kumar was a botanist with a difference. He saw elements of botany as part of natural evolution intertwined …

Waste? I haven’t heard of anything like that

Waste is but an imaginary concept; a discarded shoe or a toothbrush is waste only as long as you think it as such

The inspirational value of ISRO's Mars mission

India's researchers need to find quickest and cheapest possible solutions to problems in the country; technology dearth no longer an acceptable excuse

Monsoon season enters last lap

Withdrawal period extended as the southwest monsoon fails to follow its timetable for bidding adieu

Phailin(g) to tell the story

The dead make a better story than the living. Failure of media to continue reporting Phailin will take the pressure off administration to provide …

DNA and grey cells

Book>> GENES, CELLS AND BRAINS, THE PROMETHEAN PROMISES OF THE NEW BIOLOGY • by Hillary Rose and Steven Rose • Verso • Rs 1,550

Heart to heart

A tongue-in-cheek report of a conversation overheard at a bar during a meeting of the Commission for Sustainable Development.

Have we forgotten Rio already?

India has failed in the basic work that it needed to do even before going to Rio -- define the pathway of sustainable development for itself

Riding the waves

Adaptive sampling, a new oceanographic technique, will provide an accurate picture of complicated coastal environments

Interior boundaries

Cracking of a fragment of the earth's crust in Canada provides a snapshot of an amazing geological event

Hammer of God

The collision of a meteorite with the Earth produced energy about a million times more than the largest earthquake ever recorded

When will India wake up to freedom—from air pollution?

London’s worst air day is good air day by Indian standard

Scientists discover oldest known solar system

The system contains Earth-sized planets that orbit a star smaller than the sun

UK group to send unmanned robotic landing module to moon

The project, Lunar Mission One, aims to raise £500m for the project from donations by the public

Use these maps to see how dams are destroying rivers across the world

The interative created by a non-profit illustrates shows decades of dam-building has put river basins like the Mississippi, Yangtze, Amazon and …

Has comet ISON survived sun’s heat?

If the comet still exists, people on the Earth could witness a spectacular show in the night sky in December

NASA satellite to track UV-B radiation

Coalition government and social spending

First-time voters

Regional parties and development politics

Civil society in politics