Light relief

Something stinks

Using special polymers, scientists are on trying to make an 'artificial nose'

MONEYMAKERS

Turning dreams into reality

A cure for influenza and a substance harder than diamond: two of the products conjured up by designer science

Ceramic coat makes AIDS drug more efficient

Scientists claim a new mode of administering drugs would strip the main AIDS drug -- Azidothymidine (AZT) -- of its side-effects.

A people devoid of "genius and imagination"

The curiosity about exotic lands that gripped scholars in the 17th and 18th centuries resulted in the collation of a lot of information, much of …

Value addition

A Pune teacher develops a calculator made out of cardboard for as little as Rs 15, which can even handle mindbending logarithms.

Programmed to kill

Farmers of the world are under attack. A new technology threatens to make them totally dependent on multinational corporations

Sweet measures

New means of collecting honey will no longer destroy the entire honey comb

Super power

After all these years, science finally creates superconducting transistors

Thought for food

Herbal hunt

Tissue culture in a pressure cooker

A new tissue culture technique that is claimed to be cheap and easy to understand is fast gaining popularity.

LIPS talks to you in many tongues

The 24th international film festival in New Delhi introduced an indigenously developed technology that makes it possible to telecast a film …

Device Spots potential back pain

AIDS researcher aquitted of misconduct charge

Hear, hear

Power of wood

Human atlas: An initiative for holistic understanding of human biology

The project will collate and integrate molecular information on human tissues and organs that currently lie hidden in research articles

Stellar showbiz

Still a source of wonder for some, no great shakes for others, the recent total solar eclipse was a memorable spectacle

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 …

You can't rub out this paint

Latex obtained from succulents can be used to manufacture a host of products such as paints, adhesives and roofing material

Blight plight

Weather on order

A new technology could render weather forecasts redundant

Boosting biotech