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

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

Newton, the alchemist

Book>> Clockwork Universe, Isaac Newton, the Royal Society and the Birth of Modern Science • By Edward Dolnick • Harper Collins &…

Lessons animals teach

How animals treat themselves with various plants provide medicinal leads to scientists.

On the verge of a breakthrought

The electronics industry is poised for a quantum jump as a group of Indian scientists claim to have developed a silicon-based, light-emitting diode.