What a nerve!

Scientists turn skin cells into nerves and immune cells

Speeding up research

Enigma unexplored

Bacteria fossils or mere rock?

Deforestation accelerating

Parmjit Singh Sehra

Meet the only Indian scientist to have visited the South Pole

Precious discovery

The country's first micro-diamond deposit found

Hitting diamond

India has deposits in Andhra Pradesh

100 biggest questions on UK's environment drawn

Row over research on calculus

Charles Darwin's wife's diaries published

The first Sinophile

Book>> The Man Who Loved China by Simon Winchester Harper Collins, New York 2008

Moral of science

Agropedia

His government's agency

Gravity deniers after

Chef, scientist come to blows

TV Show>> Fisheries • The UK

All birds in one tree

Scientists develop phylogenetic tree linking all bird species

Our complex world

Book>> The quantum universe, everything that can happen can happen •Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw • Allen Lane • Rs 699

Debates on atom

Book>> The Age Of Entanglement, When Quantum Physics Was Reborn • by Louisa Gilder • Alfred A Knopf • Rs 650

Interest in metals rekindled

Scientists have found a metallic mix that allows superconductivity at higher temperatures than before

Spotlight on a scientist

A treasure in eggs

Is it a gene defect?

All in the mind