Virtual dystopia

Book>> Cyburbia, The Dangerous Idea That's Changing How We Live And Who We Are by James Harkin Hatchette India Rs 495

Science teacher

Book>>Canon The Beautiful Basics of Science by Natalie Angier Penguin India Rs 399

The silicon route

Book>>The Long Revolution The Birth and Growth of India's IT Industry by Dinesh C Sharma Harper Collins Rs 495

Common man's access to space

Small satellites are providing cost-effective and reliable means of space exploration

No hair-raising experience this

Betaine aldehyde oxidase

Biodegradable at last

Use of organic catalysts to usher in a new range of plastics  

The real magic beans

Drumstick seeds can clarify water up to 99.5 per cent

Invasion triggers evolution

A study on lizards shows evolutionary change can occur swiftly when two closely related species compete

Twist in tale

Human foot is as flexible as that of great apes

‘Reality is not as fixed as people like to think’

Neuroscientist Nadine Dijkstra talks to Down To Earth about reality and perception

Microsoft’s gag order

Software>> Competition ÔÇó Spain

Google bullies a lexicon

Google>> Language ÔÇó Sweden

Neem contraceptive

Of maggots and murder mysteries

A leg for a tail

Not all green is healthy

Primordial ripples confirm Big Bang

Dashes of fire

The one-shot wonder

Pigeon zapper

Garbage to gold

In Bombay, simple technologies are being used to convert garbage into fuel and biofertilisers.

Making a standby sun

Physicists say it's theoretically possible to make a sun in the laboratory.

Speedy detection

Trickle thrills