Unassuming bodyguards

Altering the structure of peptides can fashion them into loyal and hard-to-beat soldiers of the body's immune syustem

Wannabe Noahs

Scientists are trying to bring back extinct animals from the dead, throwing open the Pandora's box

Bet your brain

The market is flooded with brain boosters, even though there is little evidence to show for it

Unbuttoning the gender straitjacket

Attempts at subverting the delusions of gender should begin with a progressive fashioning of young minds

Debased database

Statistical data has been used and abused for centuries by a range of people for a variety of reasons. Is there a way out?

Chimeras of afterlife

A growing number of the elite are freezing their bodies in the hope for a rebirth. Is it possible?

Protein bodyguards

A protein found in almost all life-forms not only offers protection against toxins but also preverits errant behaviour in other proteins

Indian scientists thwart Western embargo on manufacture of carbon composites

An indigenous technique of manufacturing carbon-carbon composites -- state-of-the-art materials of immense commercial and military importance.…

The dark side of big data

Latest Facebook data breach episode is a reminder that rise of Big Data represents a massive engineering of society with ominous implications for …

Mortal combat

Can life be extended indefinitely? There is a renewed vigour among scientists looking for ways and means to cheat death

Cultural calling

Henrich attempts a thrilling adventure in the fierce interplay between genes and culture in human evolution

Fingering the keyboard

Indian scientists are developing computers that can understand and respond to the spoken wordIndian scientists are developing computers that can …

Making sense of sexual swings

Is your sexual preference only a result of your genes or do environment and culture also influence it?

Overwhelmingly WEIRD!

The edifice of Western science is built on generalisation, where homogeneity has replaced diversity

Mars' water connection

Channels and valleys observed on the Martian surface and meteorites of Martian origin indicate that once there might have been water on the planet

The computer plays postman

India seems ready to cash in on electronic mail, a cheap and fast way of communication in which messages are exchanged through computer networks.

Manipulating reality

The concept of Virtual Reality -- simulating the real world -- is adding a new dimension to entertainment and education.

Beyond DNA

Maurizio Meloni's book is a fascinating social and political history of human heredity spanning over 150 years

‘पोस्ट ट्रुथ’ का सच

सरकारों ने हमेशा से काल्पनिक तथ्यों के जरिए प्रोपेगंडा को बढ़ावा दिया है। जबकि सोशल मीडिया के तीव्र प्रसार ने झूठ बोलने की कला ...

The brew of `post-truth'

Popular opinion can now be engineered using fake news grapevines spawned by new technologies. Here's how

No consensus on consciousness

Despite fanciful theories by psychologists, physicists, neuroscientists and computer scientists, consciousness remains an abiding mystery

The `feeling' in nature

Andrea Wulf resurrects the forgotten intellectual explorer, Alexander von Humboldt, whose work has left a lasting imprint on our understanding of …

Call the bluff

The JNU episode must force us to decipher the modus operandi of the modern `truth-telling' information machinery

Interest in metals rekindled

Scientists have found a metallic mix that allows superconductivity at higher temperatures than before

What if the Lazarus returns

We may never be able to bring extinct species back to life. Yet, scientists are drawing up secret plans for their resurrection