What ethics?

Human clinical trial case exposes ICMR's irresponsibility

Ironed out

How the TB germ thrives

Green grenades

The open content alliance

Suicide aid

Simply Put: The mystery of Earthlings

TIFR Swarnajayanti fellow to study plasticity for better design of materials

Plasticity enables a solid to undergo permanent deformation without rupture under the action of external forces

Indian scientists find a way to enhance fat-burning capacity of chilli

Capsaicin, an active ingredient of chilli, is known to have anti-obesity or fat reducing properties

Empathy is the secret ingredient that makes cooperation – and civilization – possible

Even initially uncooperative societies in which everyone judged each other based mostly on their own selfish perspectives, eventually discovered …

Researchers convert carbon dioxide in to coal

Researchers at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia have for the first time developed a process to turn CO2 into coal. The new process uses …

Case of missing nitrogen solved: It comes from the bedrock

A study says that the leaching of nitrogen from the bedrock could be the reason for elevated levels of nitrogen in groundwater

Meet Mesentery, the newest occupant of your gut

The anatomic description that had been laid down over 100 years of anatomy was incorrect

Shutting down the particle powerhouse

Even though funds for the Superconducting Super Collider have dried up, particle physicists are determined to prove their theory of, well, everything

Cracking the cancer code

In recent years, scientists have closed in on cancer, pinning down precisely how its hellish manifestations are caused and spread. Their findings …

Antidote to cancer

Scientists have discovered an oestrogen derivative that controls tumours and could be effective against other diseases like arthritis

Ants take the shortest route to success

An Israeli mathematician offers proof of how ants, without a bird's eye view of their terrain, are still able to follow a straight route to food

Was the Archaeopteryx: Bird or dinosaur?

An American ornithologist says he has found fresh evidence that the world's oldest bird-like creature, the Archaeopteryx, was undoubtedly a bird. …

A long step forward in nerve communications

Agrin, a protein released by nerve cells, helps in triggering off the formation of a machinery through which neurons communicate.

Dead brain cells may be replaceable

Certain mouse brain cells have been found to be capable of producing neurons. Scientists say if similar cells are found to exist in the human …

New theory explains the evolution of sexes

An Oxford biologist says sexes exist to prevent chaos within cells during reproduction. And why only two sexes? Because life would get too …

And now, "calculating" babies

Babies less than six months old have the surprising abilities to distinguish shapes, sizes and colours. Now, a study indicates infants can even …

Scientists seek clues to properties of water

A molecular theory is being put forward to explain why water behaves the way it does, but proof still eludes the researchers.

When fathers harass their sons

Among white-fronted bee-eaters, a bird species found abundantly in east and central Africa, fathers torment their sons and physically prevent …

A scientist, a Marxist and a dreamer

Thirty-five years ago, a renowned British biologist branded England "a criminal state" and migrated to India. Today, in the year of his birth …

Schrodinger's kittens dead or alive

Can a cat be both dead and alive at the same time? If you believe the classic interpretation of quantum physics, it can. But several scientists …