New guidelines to help scientists communicate effectively

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 …

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

SC permits conditional field trials of GM crops

Sunil Shaunak on ethical medicine, patent laws

Sunil Shaunak of Imperial College, London, is pioneering 'ethical pharmaceuticals'. He talks to Subhra Priyadarshini about his work, evergreening …

But where's the data?

'They asked me to withdraw my court case'

P PARDHA SARADHI is tenacious. This mild-mannered professor at the Department of Environmental Studies at the University of Delhi (DU) has …

Desert green

A gene found in humans can help plants thrive in arid regions

Written in the ice

Welcome to Sheba. Here, 50 scientists will endure extreme weather conditions to better understand the Arctic climate and global warming

Oceanic treasures

Marine life is a source for future medicines

Bytes

Historian Heather Goodall on indigenous people, water in Australia

Heather Goodall, a historian at the University of Technology, Sydney, has a special interest in Australia's indigenous people--especially their …

Bee confused

Far from being avid shift workers, young honeybees are quite hopeless when it comes to timekeeping