Lichens are reliable monitors of air pollution

Indian scientists have classified levels of atmospheric pollution using lichens.

Mere volume will not sell research papers abroad

Despite a prolific output, Indian science researchers are rarely cited in foreign journals. The reasons: poor quality work on subjects far …

Herbal cure for stones

Sterling enzyme

Bubbles from sound

Babies made to order

A furore over the ethics of the new eugenics-reproduction technologies that could create 'designer' babies-has the medical community worldwide in …

Reinterpreting Darwin

THE MEANING OF EVOLUTION Robert J Richards Publisher: University of Chicago Press, Chicago Price: Not stated

Colouring cotton

A matter of consequence

Science's search for the Holy Grail finally comes to an end with the uncovering of the 5th state of matter

Save our soil

Cold deserts

Mushrooming study

Hope for infertile women

A new method to overcome infertility in mothers uses the same technique which was used to clone Dolly, the sheep

Flight into the storms

Close insight

Brain (un)drain

Super harvest

Sticky fibres

No sweat

Guiding light

Scientists 'guide' light through a new generation of fibre optic cables

Failed project

Heat over ice

BORN FREE

New anthrax medicine

Financial lure