Interview with Diganta Narzary

New guidelines to help scientists communicate effectively

Where did leprosy originate?

Maybe in East Africa, but not in India, says a new study

A P Mitra practical professor

Indian scientists return with rare plant samples from Arctic

Everybody must get stones

Fungi fight malaria

Especially helpful against mosquitoes resistant to pesticides

Sawdust scrounger

To remove toxic dye

Awesome monarchs

Migration cycle of the fragile monarch butterfly extends beyond its average lifespan

Jugaad of Indian innovation

Patting ourselves for our ability to arrive at makeshift solutions will not take us far

Glacier through drone's eye

Researchers use new technology to gather data in rugged, inaccessible Himalayan terrain

Masking noise

Breaking the ice

Pathogen chip

Can scan for thousands of microbes in 24 hours

Cholera control

Through a group of viruses

Ruckus over IPCC's global warming data

SC permits conditional field trials of GM crops

But where's the data?

Desert green

A gene found in humans can help plants thrive in arid regions

Oceanic treasures

Marine life is a source for future medicines

Bytes

A nobel indictment of gene patenting

Legendary scientist James Watson files court brief against lunacy of gene patents

Self cleansing

Drug abuse

Can render ineffective the only antimalarial medicine against Plasmodium falci

Asian scientists on new plan to study monsoon patterns