Newton, the alchemist

Book>> Clockwork Universe, Isaac Newton, the Royal Society and the Birth of Modern Science • By Edward Dolnick • Harper Collins &…

Lessons animals teach

How animals treat themselves with various plants provide medicinal leads to scientists.

On the verge of a breakthrought

The electronics industry is poised for a quantum jump as a group of Indian scientists claim to have developed a silicon-based, light-emitting diode.

Detecting a hard-to-trace brain disease

Indian scientists have developed a kit to detect a disease caused by tapeworm larvae, which doctors often confuse with tuberculosis of the brain.

Hopes dashed

Underwater "windmill"

Indian officials optimistic

Setting new limits to scientific knowledge

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Hairy potato

Malaria breakthrough promises better drugs

Now that they have discovered how chloroquine controls the malaria parasite, scientists hope to use this knowledge to develop more efficient anti-…

Do Indian scientists get what they deserve?

Leading scientists state unequivocally that favouritism and not talent attracts grants and promotions in Indian research institute.

Bickering stalls formation of R&D authority

Scientists and industrialists are trying to give final shape to a body that will select and fund projects.

Plum posts

Trial, at last

Satellite images help monitor ocean warmth

Meteorologists can now use satellite pictures to keep track of hot spots in the Pacific.

The truth about frogs

Scientists in the US are trying to find out the reason fordeformities in frogs

A robot for the deep

Scientists in the US have developed a device that would help search toxic wastes at seabed

Probe into poaching

Plastic, sans the peril

Indian scientists develop a process to free plastic of its notoriety

Space for life!

Scientists claim to have found the first evidence of life from outer space

Creation of a lifetime

Scientists synthesise a working biological entity for the first time

GM bollworms on the anvil?

Insects have been modified to destroy own species

From the realms of past

...researchers discover oldest hard-shelled marine animal

Caught by the gen(i)e

Scientists develop genetically modified mosquitoes that are unable to transmit malaria parasite

Spilling the beans

Brazilian scientists decode coffee genome