Quake Escape

Geoscientist Harsh Gupta speaks to Dinsa Sachan on the need for an  early warning system for  earthquakes  

Origin of child birth

Junk DNA, the precursor of modern mammalian pregnancy

Cyber dystopia

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Slim or obese? Brain decides

Insulin receptor in brain controls satiety, energy expenditure

Techno dystopia

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Satellite link

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Love links

Pollutant-gobblers

Old shine

Indian scientists have found a chemical that cleans antique metallic objets d'art without damaging the patina

Mushroom boom

Indian farmers are busy harvesting the booming demand for mushrooms. The problem is that it is a delicacy that is rather fastidious about its …

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

Light information

Optic fibres enable transmission of information at the speed of light and without any interference

Garlic wards off TB

Mars' water connection

Channels and valleys observed on the Martian surface and meteorites of Martian origin indicate that once there might have been water on the planet

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

Automatic warning

Posting humans to inhospitable sites in the Himalaya to monitor snow and wind patterns may soon be unnecessary