New age politicos

Social-Media>> Politics ÔÇó Iran

Margarine malice

Advertisement>> Homophobia • South Africa

Foe’s language

Records>> Aboriginal People • Australia

Tiny inspiration

Enzymes from leafcutter ant colonies to aid biofuel research

Breaking ties

TV>> MONSANTO • India

Computers piece lore

Digitisation>> History • Israel

Of life and death

Wings to soar high

A counselling initiative in Madhya Pradesh identifies interests of tribal students and facilitates their admission to institutes of higher education

Life beyond Earth

Book>> Five Hundred Billion Years Of Solitude • by Lee Billings • Penguin • Rs 799

Baltic Sea low on oxygen

Anthropogenic activities are reducing oxygen in the Baltic Sea, harming the marine ecosystem

Born with a map

Chinook salmons have an innate sense of direction, based on the earth’s magnetic field

Fight for biosimilars

Roche’s injunction against Biocon’s breast cancer drug signals the tough road ahead

Nano carriers

Nanoparticles which help deliver curcumin, a natural compound with potential to cure Alzheimer’s, to rat brain have been created

The dying kitchen story

Book>> Cooked: A Natural History Of Transformation • by Michael Pollan • Penguin • Rs 1,400

Discovery of contemporary India

Book>> Churning The Earth: The Making Of Global India• Aseem Shrivastava and Ashish Kothari • Penguin Viking, 2012 • Rs 699

Humanity's puzzling past

The 4.5 million year blind leap from "almost human" to Homo sapiens continues to baffle palaeontologists, but 2 new finds offer a new …

The wheeze squeeze

Asthma is silently strangulating humankind, and controlling air pollution could be the most effective way of combating it

Is the Tehri dam safe?

A crack has appeared on the mountainface forming part of the Tehri dam reservoir. Will such cracks effect the dam project in case of seismic …

What makes us so?

This is no longer a question for philosophers. Evolutionary biologists also dwell upon it. Manuel Massot from Laboratoire Ecologie & Evolution,…

Catch me a colossus

Catching Veerappan, who amuses himself upsetting the government cart, is like trying to cage a titan. The State is in no position to meet his …

Heavy lexicon

Dictionary>> Internet • UK

Concealed trade

E-Commerce>>Wildlife • Japan

To pull down or not

Radio Tower>> Architecture • Russia

Rhyme and reason

RAP>> Politics • Uganda

Keeping the music alive

Tradition>> Museum • Turkmenistan