Calculating disability

Area of brain responsible identified

Cancer sees red in green

Enter super broccoli

Interview with Diganta Narzary

New guidelines to help scientists communicate effectively

Permitting wildlife science

Forest permissions haunt wildlife research

Forest fires - a trailblazer

Controlled burning of woodlands can be an effective tool for enriching the land and ecology. Dipanjan Ghosh looks at the possibilities

Landing on the red planet

The world's powers celebrated Christmas 2003 in style: they sent robotic geologists to the red planet Mars, Earth's uninviting and hostile …

The passing of scientific threads

India lost two eminent scientists last fortnight. While Yash Pal was a scientific communicator par excellence, P M Bhargava laid the foundation …

Where did leprosy originate?

Maybe in East Africa, but not in India, says a new study

A P Mitra practical professor

Nobel winner Paul J Crutzen on the neglect of nitrogen cycle

Paul J Crutzen received the 1995 Chemistry Nobel prize for showing that nitrogen oxides react catalytically with ozone, thus accelerating …

God’s Invincible Laddoo

Tirupati temple wins its Geographical Indications case on a specious logic; registry order sidesteps fundamental issues

Putting out new shoots

Whether it's increasing yields, cutting growth time of plants, increasing their resistance to disease or preserving genetic resources, scientists …

Indian scientists return with rare plant samples from Arctic

Everybody must get stones

Fungi fight malaria

Especially helpful against mosquitoes resistant to pesticides

Sawdust scrounger

To remove toxic dye

Awesome monarchs

Migration cycle of the fragile monarch butterfly extends beyond its average lifespan

Glacier through drone's eye

Researchers use new technology to gather data in rugged, inaccessible Himalayan terrain

The other side of nitrogen

Excess of any thing is bad, and nitrogen is no exception. The benevolent gas is actually responsible for immense ecological damage

Masking noise

Breaking the ice

Pathogen chip

Can scan for thousands of microbes in 24 hours

Cholera control

Through a group of viruses

Ruckus over IPCC's global warming data