Days of the dino

A priest-scientist to artists, dinosaurs have had their popularizers  

Jugaad of Indian innovation

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

Rogue GM crops wreak havoc

Monsanto’s unauthorised GM wheat in the US has spooked the world, but contamination is widespread

Test drive to Mars

India’s first inter-planetary flight is now well on its way. Once the satellite orbits the Red Planet, the country will become the fourth …

Choking research

Mismanagement in India's premier forestry research institute

Why experts want GM freeze

Say regulatory system has grave deficiencies; challenge agriculture ministry’s claims

Indian scientists: missing in action

Climate change denial must stop

Getting more with less

System of crop intensification, specially in rice, has shown sizeable savings in water and seed usage. Yet its adoption has not spread despite …

Salvage science

Scientific Advisory Council to Prime Minister seeks more funds and education reforms in science sector

ICAR chases patents for pickle

The National Research Centre on Meat has odd ideas on what can be patented

Tubelights give more than light to labs

Used tubelights can now be recycled into laboratory apparatus that are cheap and as good as those available in the market.

A scientist, a Marxist and a dreamer

Thirty-five years ago, a renowned British biologist branded England "a criminal state" and migrated to India. Today, in the year of his birth …

Schrodinger's kittens dead or alive

Can a cat be both dead and alive at the same time? If you believe the classic interpretation of quantum physics, it can. But several scientists …

The haze is political

US scientists upto mischief on the eve of climate change talks?

Master of all

Leonardo da Vinci was the creator of natural plastic

The inspirational value of ISRO's Mars mission

India's researchers need to find quickest and cheapest possible solutions to problems in the country; technology dearth no longer an acceptable excuse

Countdown to self-reliance

Indian space scientists have been forced on the indigenisation track to launch communications satellites

The statistician who "planned" India

P C Mahalanobis can rightly be called the father of Indian statistics. Today, in the year of his birth centenary, he is remembered not only as …

Warning Quakes

Frequent tremors in Khandwa, which lies on the Budwani-Sukta fault line, may be signs of a larger quake to come

An output called research

First among equals

Peer review, the long-standing custodian of good science, is now being seen by many as a cabalistic exercise that assures the self-interests of …

Elephants pit

Scientist R SUKUMAR of the Centre for Ecological Studies, Bangalore, says that DTE correspondent Anju Sharma was slipshod in her homework on elephants

An island away

Larger forests can help control extinction, not epidemics

Before Adam came Zinj