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A bridge across space

The dream of constructing an elevator to space has come a step closer to reality

The discovery machine

Ultra-smart software is outdoing humans, making scientific discoveries and helping drivers cope with bad driving

The last fetter

-- involving use of symbolic communication -- there is evidence that our ancestors could speak.

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Gel travel

Scientists fly rockets with toothpaste-like jelly

Re-counting

Insect species are much fewer than previously estimated

In interstellar space

Ungracious

Why we exist

Book>> The grand design • by Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow • Random House • Rs 800

An unsung genius

Book>> The Strangest Man, the Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, the Mystic of the Atom • by Graham Farmelo • Faber and Faber, Rs 450

Researchers’ horror act

Film>> Scientists • Antarctic

Can't stand the smell

Giving girls the horrors

Practical hunting

The secret sex life of the sea urchin

With the unravelling of how fertilisation occurs in sea urchins, scientists may now better understand the reproduction process in higher mammals, …

Helping computers keep a tight hold on power

Scientists are trying to integrate a new type of circuits - called reversible circuits -- into computers to make them more energy efficient

Why some bumble bees spend the night out

Bumble-bees infected with the larvae of parasitic flies stay the night out in the cold to hinder the development of the eggs

In search of gravitational waves

Two projects are under way to detect an elusive phenomenon that are thought to be produced by violent events in outer space

Wanderlust heats up the blood of some fish

Biologists have found that some fish evolved into warm-blooded creatures because their adventurous ancestors were exposed to large temperature …

Dinosaur dawn

Relying on intrigue to survive

Some insects come up with amazing answers to the question of survival.

Penguins gauge sea resources for scientists

Scientists are relying on the emperor penguins to find out the state of sea resources in the inhospitable Antarctic region.

Birth of a galaxy