Gene games

Tackling a pest

Lava whirlpool

Deep-sea secrets

Little nibblers

How green algae eat pipelines

A treat of lime

Preserve old books efficiently now

Little warrior

Scientists discover microbe that degrades a commonly found pollutant

Undercurrents

Norway installs world's first underwater electricity grid to be powered by tidal currents

I don't want to leapfrog

Commonly used herbicide is changing gender of US frogs

Footlongs

Long nanotubes made possible

Drugged to death

US waterways highly contaminated by a cocktail of drugs

Startling links

Viruses of many ailments, including common cold and HIV, have common genetic traits

Tick of the body clock

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

Foul-free

Quick way to make compost

AI can see you

A sophisticated and frightening face-recognition algorithm being employed by technology firms could be the end of privacy as we know it

Robots develop new semiconductor materials in tests that are 10 times faster & greener

With the technology, scientists have been able to develop alloys with perovskites materials that can improve solar cells

Opinion: Earthquakes are a boon for Earth

Earthquakes are natural but huge losses of life and property during the incidence of an earthquake are anthropogenic

James Webb Telescope captures clearest view of Neptune’s rings after 3 decades

Webb images vividly display Neptune’s fainter dust bands in addition to many brilliant, narrow rings

Helping cells become better protein factories could improve gene therapies and other treatments — a new technique shows how

Gene therapy involves replacing a defective gene with a functioning one that can direct cells to produce missing or dysfunctional proteins

My PhD supervisor just won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for designing a safer, cheaper and faster way to build molecules and make medicine

How do chemists make the correct version of a molecule so that drugs work as intended  

India an overperformer in frontier tech among developing countries: UN report

Several developing countries showed stronger capabilities to use and adapt frontier technologies above their GDPs, but were lagging behind 

Animals can feel an upcoming earthquake, says study

Animals might sense ionisation of the air caused by large rock pressures in earthquake zones with their fur. They can also smell gases released …

Innovation may not be the answer to India’s development challenges

India ranks second among middle income countries on ‘quality of innovation’

IIIT-Hyderabad creates the first Indian brain atlas

The researchers in IIIT have also revealed that the Indian brain is smaller compared to others

Nasa unveils the stellar cosmos

Here are some of the images the American space agency selected to feature “our fascinating universe”