AIDS in 1908

User-friendly water test kit

A momentous bang

The world of fungi

Mapping the sky

We killed it

Why percentages confuse

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Innovation is tricky business

An output called research

Ill treatment

Once upon a time

Hedges are disappearing. Where do the birds, insects rest?

College without network

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Eyes under water

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Smarter than computer

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Survival instinct

A fungus breeds sexually to infect resistant wheat crops  

Parting twins

Cooperative catalysis ensures the beneficial chiral product

Lunar visitations

Scientists open new avenue to study head muscle dystrophy

By identifying mechanism by which muscles above the neck are formed during development of embryo in the womb, the study may help to test drugs …

Fake science, shady journals

India is way behind in the patents it files, the reason being that much of its science is of dubious quality

Researchers develop materials to detect hydrogen with high sensitivity

This is important because hydrogen gas is difficult to produce and it is hard to detect if it leaks

Revisiting Gandhi in the age of social media

For the Mahatma, “science without humanity” was one of the "seven deadly sins", due to which, people could become slaves or victims …

Airplanes face a growing risk of being hit by uncontrolled re-entries of rockets used to launch satellites

An aircraft in flight could be seriously damaged by just 300 grams of space debris impacting an engine, windshield or other critical surface

DTE Coverage: Here is what happened at the 108th Indian Science Congress

From the quality of Indian scientific research to women in science, the event focussed on several issues

Scientists discover a new way to detect early colon cancer

Colon cancer currently gets detected at a very late stage; the new technique could help detect it at stage I

Why can’t we throw all our trash into a volcano and burn it up?

Reasons include the sacred status of several volcanoes, the toxic nature of trash and the design of volcanoes