Fungi create fertile soils

Glue to bind bridges

It wasn't the asteroid

There's a virus in the camera

Science & Technology - Briefs

Whales give clues

A void for 0

Predicting soil erosion

Fear factor

Grasshoppers, like humans, indulge in emotional eating

Fitting in

Fish evolved to adapt to their swimming environments  

China loses its patent

Human’s best friend originated from a wolf in West Asia  

Ant’s invasion plan decoded

The fire ant first went to the US, then conquered the world

Miller's experiment revisited

Operation landslide

Sugar kills

Energy matters

Quality of light influences stomatal movement

The sun burns in a lab

Scientists strike atoms with impossibly high energy levels  

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 

Science Tales

Writings on the interplay of science, history, gender, culture and politics

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’