Male flowers enhance pollination

Plants normally have only bisexual flowers. Some species, however, also produce male flowers to make the dispersal of pollen more efficient.

Eight hearts do the work of one

US scientists postulate the Barosaurus needed more than one heart to pump blood throughout its 15-metre height

Good night, sleep tight

Metallic clams

Auditioning pollution

Yeast genes spring surprise on scientists

Chromosome III in yeast, the first to have its DNA fully described, opened up a wealth of new genes whose functions are completely unknown

New words for hydrology

Introducing the bacteria

Hair-raising promise

Diamonds for dinosaurs

A stale session of scientists

The 81st session of the Indian Science Congress failed to inspire interaction among scientists and was reduced to a forum for criticising the …

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By God, it's Tipler!

THE PHYSICS OF IMMORTALITY Frank J Tipler . Doubledey (New York), 1994 Price: US $24.95

Meltdown 2000!

Celebrations of the new century might be accompanied by multiple nuclear meltdowns wrought by the millennium bug. Is there a way out?

A new light

New findings suggest that our ancestors did not tame fire as early as is believed

Weighing those words

Scientists have come up with yet another software to assess writing skills

Doing time

A beam of light could soon cure you of that jet lag as scientists find out how to "wind" our body clocks

Mother Universe

How did the Universe "get going"? Here's a new, interesting theory

Starch watch

Science Friction

Scientists discover the atomic phenomenon behind friction

Blood cells from stem cells

The apple holds ground

Gravity works between bodies kept at minute distances, just the way Newton calculated

Found at last

Remains of Neanderthals discovered in Germany

What a nerve!

Scientists turn skin cells into nerves and immune cells

Speeding up research