Real laureates

This year's Nobel prizes are truly grounded in practicality

Beauty of being natural

Organic farming has many advantages over other farming methods, proves a 21-year long study

Self healing

Scientists develop a plastic that can repair itself when heated

Profitable in every way

Scientists develop method to use jute for making paper pulp

Perfect model?

New method to forecast monsoon early

Making power needs more energy than it yields

Kani vs Kani

Kanis are dragged into bureaucratic wrangling, pitting them against each other

Taste of waste

How to make plants yield salt

Why no debate on independence of research?

There was no discussion on how promoting PPP model will affect independence of research

Even shorter workouts help

Exercise changes the way fat is stored

Opportunists among plants

Invasive species thrive by making the most of nutrition that comes in spurts

An ardent activist passes away

Spaced out waste

Caught in a haze

Indian scientists contest the UNEP report on the aerosol-caused Asian brown cloud

Look inside the whale

Scientists develop a method for studying the whales' stomach contents without killing them

Bytes

Higgs hypothesis gathers mass

Scientists say the discovered particle is consistent with the sought-after Higgs boson

A vote for alien seeds

The Swiss vote overwhelmingly against a ban on the genetic modification of plants and animals

Cosmic collision

Discovery of a crater sheds new light on the end of many Middle East civilisations

Walking whales

Recently found fossils provide evidence that mammals were predecessors of whales

Lab's labour lost

Products designed by premier scientific institutions fail to find the pulse of the market

Falling prey

Star among star gazers

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Man behind scientist

Film>> Stephen Hawking • UK

Bitter battle