World’s first three-parent baby raises questions about long-term health risks

It's a landmark case but there are many unknowns

Summing up the golden ratio

What's behind our puzzling fetish to find beauty in numbers?

Presumed ideals

Any utopia, whether founded on reason or faith, contains the seeds of dystopia within

A navigation start-up is mapping the world to reach unaddressed locations

What3words will also be integrated in the postal system of Mongolia

The genesis of a knot

If our early ancestors were polygamous, then how did we become monogamous?

Strong western disturbance to impact many states of India

Wet and stormy weather is in store for many states

Research paves way for preventing mass amphibian die-offs

Out of the total 7,511 species of amphibians alive today, 40 per cent are declining

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Matrix reloaded

Adding jute fiber to cement mix can make buildings stronger

Swinging both ways

Early human ‘Lucy’ walked but was good at climbing trees too

No wood is waste

Nano-onions from wood shavings can deliver nutrients to plants

Sound track of the earth

Seismic noise can help map our planet’s interiors

Hollywood’s Net police

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Not all is lost

Indian recipes retain most iodine during cooking

What lurks beneath the Network

Social media is often the scapegoat for a real crisis

Improved cure for TB

Combination drug can treat both TB and resistant TB

Lab on the lap

Indian scientists develop a low-cost, easy-to-use physics lab

Plastics enlightened

Scientists develop plastics that can repair cracks on their own with the aid of light

Pluck and dry

Herbarium trip shows climate change not the only threat

Cyber-rattling

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Kickstart for fuel cells

Non-precious metals are new catalyst substitutes

At the mercy of chromosomes

Sets of it decide whether a plant will dominate or vanish

Carcinogenic pesticides

Cancer congress

The battle against the disease intensifies

Breasting cancer

A pair of genes responsible for causing breast cancer have been nabbed