Tokyo Olympics: Sports science the ‘ultimate winner’

Sports and sports science have been complementing each other for the last three decades when technology was given top priority to maintain …

Evolution and Science-fiction: Marriage of facts and fantasy

It is nearly impossible to consume a work of science-fiction that concerns itself with evolution without acknowledging Darwin’s role

Assault on open access to science in India

Elsevier, Wiley and American Chemical Society have pleaded in front of Delhi High Court that ISPs block Sci-Hub and Libgen websites in India

Liver fibrosis can be detected through blood test: new study

It will make diagnosis easier to perform, non-invasive, and less prone to sampling errors, researchers say

Yawning gaps

The lack of planning and lethargic management have reduced the once prestigious Indian Science Congress to a meaningless jamboree

Can 104th Indian Science Congress claim any achievement?

From nanoscience to navigation satellites and sanitation to antibiotics resistance, the potential of science in tackling development issues was …

Can reading fiction literally change your mind?

Is there weight to claims that reading can make you a better person – or are they just tall tales?

My genetic profile

Book>> My Beautiful Genome • by Lone Frank • Penguin • Rs 450

Blast That Cures

For the first time in India a needleless drug delivery device has been designed. Gopalan Jagadeesh from the Department of Aerospace Engineering, …

Playing Lego with molecules

Scientists are trying to make designer solids -- substances whose molecules they assemble according to a predetermined plan

Surprise rays from a comet

First ever X -ray emission by a comet has excited several astrophysicists who are optimistic of bringing some more dark areas of the universe …

Hope for Earth

We are producing less CFCs - the main agent for ozone depletion. That, say experts, is a good sign

Gas to liquid

A new physical process will help convert natural gas into liquid fuel, making it easier to transport

Look sharp

With the most powerful telescope in the world coming up in Chile, our view of the final frontier is sure to become larger and clearer

RNAs online

Scientists discover how molecules travel along a veritable 'information superhighway' inside plants

Super-heavy elements

Two experiments succeed in creating super-heavy elements, improving our understanding of the nuclear structure

Hanging by a silk

It’s flexible yet tougher than a bullet-proof jacket. Are we anywhere near deciphering the fibre?

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