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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 …
Hanging by a silk
It’s flexible yet tougher than a bullet-proof jacket. Are we anywhere near deciphering the fibre?
Education Minister Satyapal Singh derides Darwin's Theory of Evolution
Singh suggested that the theory of evolution be modified in school and college curricula
India gassed
Climate changes induced by increasing concentration of greenhouse gases could adversely affect the country's crop yields
Unassuming bodyguards
Altering the structure of peptides can fashion them into loyal and hard-to-beat soldiers of the body's immune syustem
Molecular games
First there was the buckminster fullerene molecule, shaped like a football. Now, scientists have produced a tennis ball look-alike
The fruits of confusion
An Australian shrub has leaves that mimic its fruit to fool the voracious white-tailed black cockatoo
Jaldi dhan will transform drought-hit regions
New varieties of rice that mature in just about two months, can prove to be a boon for marginal farmers in drought-prone areas of India.
Monthly madness
A group of American psychiatrists have proclaimed that some women suffer from a mental illness that usually begins a week before their menstrual …
Preserving for posterity
A group of scientists is attempting to collect and store genetic material from various tribes on the verge of extinction in an effort to preserve …
Sudden jump in infant cancer cases
Doctors are finding it difficult to cope with the increasing incidence of thyroid cancer among children -- innocent victims of radioactivity.
Tilted in North's favour
A geological explanation as to why the South pays with a hole over the Antarctic for the North's misdemeanours
Self-purification
The world's biggest fresh water system, the Great Lakes, straddling Canada and the United States, are cleansing themselves of pollutants
Earth sciences ministry’s revised budget estimate reduced by 22%, multiple delays cited as reasons
Ministry cited delays in procuring high-power computing devices, constructing a National Centre for Seismology building & acquiring land to …
Experts demand ethical framework and standards for AI systems
Two-day international colloquium on ‘Ethics and Governance of Autonomous Al Systems for a Better World’
Nagaland Governor PB Acharya inaugurates Children's Science Congress
Solid waste management was the theme for a poster painting competition in the ongoing 105th edition of the Indian Science Congress
Real pride of ancient Indian science
Indian scientists are nowhere to be seen in the world you and I inhabit. This is when our modern world requires science to be integrated into …
Having a ball
Great balls of fire! Science has finally explained ball lightning, a mysterious atmospheric phenomenon until now
Jump, they say
Why do some gene fragments jump around from one place to another? Russians believe they have the answer
Ouch, it is a mutation
Do headaches, stomach upsets and several other minor ailments have their roots in the speed of genetic mutations?
How the topmost scientific advisory body gradually slipped into oblivion
After the NDA came to power under Narendra Modi in 2014, the SAC-PM went defunct as the new government failed to reconstitute the council
Contest to identify and nurture school students talented in science
‘Vidyarthi Vigyan Manthan’, a national programme to nurture school students talented in science, is here again