Bright idea

Catalysis breakthrough makes chemical production green

In censor’s web

SOFTWARE>>CENSORSHIP • Internet

Search ends in gangland

Google>> Lawsuit • Australia

Researchers’ horror act

Film>> Scientists • Antarctic

Game of hide and seek

Internet>> New York Times • The US/China

Eternal quest

Fascination and challenges of the search for extra-terrestrial life

Google flies in face of privacy rules

Website>> Google • Europe

Twitter grows conservative

Social Media>> Censorship • Twitter

Origin of child birth

Junk DNA, the precursor of modern mammalian pregnancy

Slim or obese? Brain decides

Insulin receptor in brain controls satiety, energy expenditure

Techno dystopia

Book>> Alone together • by Sherry Turkle • Basic Books • Rs 750

Love links

Pollutant-gobblers

Fuelled by alcohol

Grafting proteins

Sooty clues

Doomed to extinction

The irreparable damage to the habitat of certain species has already sounded their death-knell

Garlic wards off TB

Vitamin C helps smokers

Clothing the desert

A sturdy mountain tree could transform chilly deserts into lush fields

Plastic is good

Lead on the palate

The final assault

The Indian subcontinent is probably the only region still at high risk from the polio virus

Antarctica blues

Indian scientists discover how living in the frigid continent affects the mind and the body

Zap the bacteria