Chemical bonding

Light ahoy!

Bioluminescence throws light on replacing existing methods to detect microbial contamination by a faster and cheaper process

Gay markers

Ears for music

Cellular perception

Researchers take a closer look at the subtle ways that cells usefor signaling

Dividing time

Is timefor a cell a recurringevent or something continuous? Well to find the answer you mustfirst know its temperature

Growing up and how

The protein, leptin, could be the key to initiating puberty in an individual

High anxiety

Experts discover that oestrogen offen affects stress management

Taking sides

When right becomes the left and left becomes the right

Trained not to miss

Hair today

... won't be gone tomorrow if science can have its way

Talking about sex

Male development is crucially dependent on the expression of a gene present on the Y cromosome

Body watch

Energy expenditure in the human body is based on an internal clock

Puberty too soon

Chemicals resembling oestrogen, may be causing sexual irregularities in adolescent girls

Motion moans

Organic spirals

The amoebae's intriguing hunger "call" has the whole scientific community excited

Sex and longevity

Demystifying migraine

Brain scaps lift a little the veils off throbbing headaches

Water for thought

Blind vision

How do you locate an object even with eyes closed?

Matter of choice

The bene-fits of hormone replacement therapy in post-menopausal women outweigh its side-effects

Nature's timekeepers

Double trouble

The attack within

Not a single dry eye in the house

...after you try out medicine's latest recipe for killing pain -- red hot chilli peppers