Never say die

Farmers and agricultural scientists in Australia are having a tough time battling a weed that has suddenly developed resistance to a herbicide

Calcium calls

The mystery of nerve cell behaviour could be solved with a recent study of how calcium affects cellular responses

The aftermath

The tests at Pokharan have shown that, given the right thrust, India can develop thermonuclear power plants

Sutures from fish

Far sight

A remote sensing machine to measure vital signs will be used in the next Olympic games

Every breath you take

Small snooper robots could make hiding impossible

Gene games

Lava whirlpool

Deep-sea secrets

A treat of lime

Preserve old books efficiently now

Little warrior

Scientists discover microbe that degrades a commonly found pollutant

Footlongs

Long nanotubes made possible

Tick of the body clock

Chemical that plays a crucial role in regulating human body's chemical chain identified

Fenton's reagent

Cleans up effluent

Iron is out

School children are anaemic

Believe it or not

Dummy pills prove to be antidote for brain disorder

News Snippets

Perfect matrix

To grow stem cells

Bytes

QED. Amen

Against religion in a laboratory and science in a church

We evolved, thank god

New find confirms water-land transition, evolutionary theory

Not science

Archbishop of Canterbury strikes a blow for reason

The labyrinth of desire

A female equivalent of Viagra has once again rekindled our interest in the female libido

Seeing small

A fresh innovation by IBM now allows the ordinary microscope to see minutest things like genes and single atom spectrums

Wheat rusts no more