The grain of the matter

The study of a new kind of structure called oscillon could enhance our understanding of the granular system and even lead to an universal theory …

How is science doing?

"The engine of social and economic improvement" has recently been assessed globally by experts and scientists

Executing a killer

Should the remaining two stocks of the smallpox virus be wiped out permanently from the face of the earth? The question, which brings to fore …

Early birds

Rocks -- 3.85 billion year old --show that battered by meteors and supposedly sterile, ancient Earth still harboured life-forms

The roachmobile

Researchers are teaching insects how to drive. This can lead to a wheelchair that can be controlled by twitching a muscle or two

Never mined

A simple, inexpensive device now gives hope to thousands living in fear of stepping on a live landmine

From Adam to ape

God, says the Kansas State Board of Education in the US, created the world in seven says. Evolution therefore doesn't exist. A new curriculum …

Forlorn in the USA

About 12 million American families last year couldn't afford to buy food. 32 per cent of them actually experienced someone going hungry at one …

Meet Deben Bora

As field researchers will tell, you don't get up one fine morning and cut through an unknown forest in search of an elusive animal species. Even …

Biocontrol Backfires

South American cane toads introduced into Australia to check sugarcane pests have become a menace

Tartaric acid in, aluminium out

Cheaper, eco-friendly method to tackle soil toxicity

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Seed restoration

Bt gene harms GM plant

New answers to old questions on biosafety of GM crops

Measure of tolerance

New way to calculate capacity of soil to resist erosion

Enriching the ocean

Right recipe

Made for India

Addition of newly-found gene could help Indian Bt cotton varieties withstand pest attacks

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Reaping a double benefit

Two rice crops annually in semi-arid tropic regions good for soil fertility, claims study

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Irregularities galore in Bt trials

Breathing life in corals

New classification system for potato

Deschooling farmers