Blight plight
Boosting biotech
Lasers add zing to alignment systmes
Indian engineers have developed a laser-based alignment system, which have the high level of precision essential for installing sophisticated …
Developing hydrogen as a petrol substitute
With petrol stocks being fast depleted, scientists are developing a technology that will run vehicles on hydrogen
Disparate returns
The government's improper policies have foiled attempts to develop the biotechnology industry in the country
The new breadbasket
Cold storage
An age old principle comes in handy to provide the rural poor with low cost refrigerators
Demystifying science
To promote public understanding of science, it is essential not only to initiate openness and dialogue between the scientific community and the …
Tapping into the source
These are the days of frenetic crossborder data networking. Electronic cilia have crawled into almost every nook in the world where information …
New Genesis
The mapping of human genes opens up new frontiers and also gives rise to fresh fears
The lotus effect
Water doesn't stick to lotus leaves. Nature has given the plant a self-cleaning mechanism. Crack the science of it, and you have the formula for …
Technology To The Core, Science and Technology with Indira Gandhi
Book>>Technology To The Core, Science And Technology With Indira Gandhi by Ashok Parthasarthi Pearson Longman 2007
Safe as milk
Ethyl lactate, an ecologically benign chemical, is all set to replace dangerous solvents
Face-lift
Success matters
Social events play a major part in the development of the nervous system
Problem
Quality of Research: Only a fig leaf
Basis of rating
Each scientists work was rated in accordance with the following criteria
Solution
Awardee 2001
Green Scientist Award
Peanuts for ecology
India spends very little on Science for Ecological Security. And then spends it poorly
Deconstructing science
Nature uses lean sources to get work done. The environmental crises we face today are a result of ignoring this simple paradigm for two centuries.…
Science for ecology
Down To Earth and the Centre for Science and Environment announce the winner of the 2001 Green Scientist Award. In the exercise to rate the …
Science in our daily lives