Fat-checker

Artificial eyes

Of highs and lows

A recent study confirms correlation between an enzyme and alcohol sensitivity in mice

A clean burn

Robots at your service

An electronic butler to cater to your every whim

Killing shortcuts

Car navigation systems can be dangerous for pedestrians in residential areas

Pen friend

A hi-tech 'pen' can soon make keyboards and mice obsolete

Wide-eyed

No more cry

Researchers may soon develop onions that don't have tear-inducing chemicals

Threat perception

Rare find

Logging on to a fresh row

Japanese cap

On diesel emissions stricter than Europe's

Safe reaction

Cell sensor

Frog egg helps robot sniff pollution

Dead silence on AIDS

The recently-concluded AIDS conference did not hold out even the slightest hope for those afflicted with the disease

Bed and breakfast available, only for a year

Researchers probing parasitism among birds say the hosts are cleverer than those living at their expense. The great reed warbler, for example, …

Handy phone

Soon it will be possible to receive a call or dial a number anywhere, anytime, on your wristwatch

Small wonder

Shake a few bits of silicon in a petri-dish containing water and lo, you have a three-dimensional structure!

Destination drive

The Japanese have come up with a new software that guides drivers about the best route to where they are headed, avoiding the traffic jams on way

When research kills

Defying an international treaty, Japan encourages its fisherfolk to exceed tuna quotas under the pretext of scientific research

Typhoon Phanfone batters Japan

One US airman killed; hundreds of flights disrupted

Fukushima rice passes radiation tests for first time since disaster

The earthquake that hit Japan nearly four years ago had forced the country to stop export of fish and other produce from the area near Fukushima …

Relief in verse

Poem>> Tsunami • Japan

Vehicles of death