A nose for ova

Third eye

A new mapping technique can help quickly locate any site in a city

Harder than nails

A quicker, pollution-free and cost-effective technique to harden iron alloys

Creasefree cotton

Nitrogen's role rediscovered

Microbial miners

A bacterium can rid magnesite ore of silica, a major impurity

Cometary conundrum

Fresh data on the collision of shards of Shoemaker-Levy 9 with Jupiter last year has divided scientists on the size of the comet fragments

Shelving shopping sprees

Enlightening sulphur

Oldest feast

Green gene

Humane pigs

Timeless pursuits

A new interpretation of texts from a civilisation that flourished 1,000 years ago reveals its uncanny similarity with modern times

Eternal launcher

Touchless and screenless

Super storage

A new technology is set to boost the storage capacity of CD s by 1,000 times

Choice from voice

Sounds phony

Ceramic wonder

The recent in radar

Kitchenware in orbit

More than skin-deep

Miniature musings

Science or pure imagination? Nanotechnology opens up unlimited possibilities which can revolutionise almost every field of human activity

NET WORK

In broad daylight

Now conferencing can be a lot brighter and lighter with the help of a new device that does away with dark rooms and bulks of paper