Stainless glass

How soot can help surfaces repel both oil and water

Spin it like spider

Modified silkworms created to spin spider silk

What if Laki returns?

Scientists revisit one of the largest volcanic eruptions  

New space glue

Unlike other adhesives it becomes stickier in dry environments

India close to solar energy breakthrough

Solar energy is free, but harnessing it using conventional crystalline silicon cells is expensive. Efforts in India to produce an efficient, low-…

Craning at the treetops

Cleaning up the plastic act

Researchers are taking the dirt out of plastic

Love through catastrophe

Cold signatures in wood

A 300 year-old tree from Kashmir reveals that Europe's Little Ice Age had even affected India

Omens of deluge

Estimates of sea-level rises vary considerably

The beauty myth

Blame it on the genes

Some disorders of the nervous system for which faulty genes are responsible:

Seeding a la bulls

Transistors' hour of departure

A cheap fluidic alternative to a semiconducting transistor is set to invade the market

Brothers in arms

These robots know what teamwork means

Celestial lab

Black hole found in the Milky Way to help decipher cosmos

Beam us up Scotty

Teleportation is no more a fantasy

A view into the past

A new galaxy sheds light on the origins of the universe

Unattractive magnet

Universe's age

Photocatalysts

Vaccine against Anthrax

New DNA-based vaccine protects mice against anthrax

The AIDS war plan

How HIV infects is now understood, brings researchers close to a cure

Core of a chromosome

The secret chromosome center, the root of many cancers, is sequenced

Black death unravelled

The plague bacterium genome is mapped