Putting colour into pelts

Scientists say a pair of genes are responsible for lending colour to animal furs.

The ancients were right

Simply Put: Politician fish

On starry nights

The smallest battery

Eve's motherhood challenged

Nerd calender

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A bridge across space

The dream of constructing an elevator to space has come a step closer to reality

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Gel travel

Scientists fly rockets with toothpaste-like jelly

Re-counting

Insect species are much fewer than previously estimated

In interstellar space

The haze is political

US scientists upto mischief on the eve of climate change talks?

Ungracious

Tubelights give more than light to labs

Used tubelights can now be recycled into laboratory apparatus that are cheap and as good as those available in the market.

A gene that follows its own drum-beat

A team of Russian scientists have found in mice a gene, which, unlike others, decides when to express itself

Was the Archaeopteryx: Bird or dinosaur?

An American ornithologist says he has found fresh evidence that the world's oldest bird-like creature, the Archaeopteryx, was undoubtedly a bird. …

Seeking many more Hedy Lamarrs

The number of women inventors is finally rising the world over but their percentage is still too small to be celebrated

Know your scientists

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New form of carbon opens up exciting possibilities

The discovery of a simple procedure for synthesis of a new crystalline form of carbon has opened up immense possibilities in the field of …

A long step forward in nerve communications

Agrin, a protein released by nerve cells, helps in triggering off the formation of a machinery through which neurons communicate.

Dead brain cells may be replaceable

Certain mouse brain cells have been found to be capable of producing neurons. Scientists say if similar cells are found to exist in the human …

New theory explains the evolution of sexes

An Oxford biologist says sexes exist to prevent chaos within cells during reproduction. And why only two sexes? Because life would get too …

And now, "calculating" babies

Babies less than six months old have the surprising abilities to distinguish shapes, sizes and colours. Now, a study indicates infants can even …