New anthrax medicine

Financial lure

Namibia

Impossible ispossible

Cold nuclear fusion has been observed during a recent experiment. If this holds ground, energy harnessing process would become much easier

What ails ICAR?

10 committees and 30 years on, nobody knows

Portable nuclear reactor

Works at room temperature

Golden technique

To make nanoprisms

Freeze frame

New forms of ice discovered

Apollo's Nazi connections

First expedition in Intenational Polar Year 2007-08 begins

Lab manual

Book>> A Guinea Pig's History of Biology by Jim Endersby Random House 2008 Indian Price Rs 495

The icons of physics

Book>> Quantum, Einstein, Bohr and the Debate on the Nature of Reality • by Manjit Kumar • Icon Books • Rs 300

Edison’s estranged apprentice

An eccentric genius who thought big with electricity

Scientific Indian

First among equals

Peer review, the long-standing custodian of good science, is now being seen by many as a cabalistic exercise that assures the self-interests of …

Elephants pit

Scientist R SUKUMAR of the Centre for Ecological Studies, Bangalore, says that DTE correspondent Anju Sharma was slipshod in her homework on elephants

An island away

Larger forests can help control extinction, not epidemics

Before Adam came Zinj

जानिए, क्यों मिट्टी लगाने से रुक जाता है खून का बहना

वैज्ञानिकों के अनुसार घाव में मिट्टी लगाने पर रक्त में मौजूद एक प्रोटीन 'कोएगुलेशन फैक्टर XII' सक्रिय हो जाता है, जिसके कारण खून बहना बंद ...

Scientists synthesise cannabis like products in lab

The developed chemicals' commercial use is limited since it is difficult to procure sufficient quantities of marine sources for their isolation

How scientists solved a centuries-old mystery

UK scientists discovered a rare form of star collision

Making rubber recycling eco-friendly

Scientists at Indian Institute of Technology, Mandi identified bacteria involved in breaking down natural rubber in order to make it …

Scientists in India develop biosensor to detect diabetes-related complications

Till date, there has been very little effort to quantify levels of Methylglyoxal in the blood or food products we consume

Yawning gaps

The lack of planning and lethargic management have reduced the once prestigious Indian Science Congress to a meaningless jamboree

Can 104th Indian Science Congress claim any achievement?

From nanoscience to navigation satellites and sanitation to antibiotics resistance, the potential of science in tackling development issues was …