Stainless glass

How soot can help surfaces repel both oil and water

Truth behind white deposits

Water, clay and living cells

May soon revolutionize the field of tissue engineering  

Odour map

Surviving in a battlefield

Wishes grow on cellulose

Here is one battery that will revolutionize the use of paper

Cell sensor

Frog egg helps robot sniff pollution

The big aftershock

Quake activates nearby faults, triggers more quakes

Searing thirst

Do not water your plants under a fiercely glaring sun

Science Awards

Under the chip

Get the speed

The lunar indicator

Protein-wired

Devanagri neuro-deciphered

The Indian script is complex, the brain works hard to read it

Who winds body clock?

Scientists discover protein that helps plants, animals mark time

Track trends

If nothing ever changed, there’d be no butterflies  

Himalayas on the move

The Indian plate is heavy and steadily sinking under Eurasia  

Spin it like spider

Modified silkworms created to spin spider silk

What if Laki returns?

Scientists revisit one of the largest volcanic eruptions  

New space glue

Unlike other adhesives it becomes stickier in dry environments

India close to solar energy breakthrough

Solar energy is free, but harnessing it using conventional crystalline silicon cells is expensive. Efforts in India to produce an efficient, low-…

Current affair

Strength polymerized

Eyes wide open