Trapping solar energy in space

Can solar power ever become a major source of energy?

Disappearing fields

Urbanisation takes its toll on farmlands

Celestial explorers

Book>> Voyager, seeking newer worlds in the third great age of discovery • by Stephen J Pyne • Viking • Rs 1,000

Space mirror "illumines" Europe by night

A Russian attempt to light up the night by using sunlight reflected from a huge space-based mirror failed to come up to expectations but could …

Black China

Soot particles are causing intensive droughts and floods in China

Houston, we've a tumour

Docking a space shuttle and detecting tumours -- NASA's new neural network does both with aplomb

Smart alien's relentless strike

SARS motivates researchers to redefine space invasion

35 kg too heavy?

Code of conduct for space

EU drafts law to govern space activities as countries increase explorations

Unearthing a duplicate

Discovery of a new planet raises hopes of finding planets similar to the Earth

Particles of significance

The newfound character of neutrinos is revolutionary

Disaster intimation

Satellite control

Has forest cover really increased?

The provisional figures for India's forest cover are now ready, and Down To Earth has managed to acquire a copy. The figures, when compared to …

Little to show for crores of rupees spent

Inefficient use funds, not lack of resources, is responsible for the failure of scientific departments to meet their targets, says a recent CAG …

Universally changing

A recent research throws light on the possibility that the laws of physics were different in the past

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Common man's access to space

Small satellites are providing cost-effective and reliable means of space exploration

Satellite mapping of flora hotspots

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Water mark

The stakes just got higher

Website review: Stargazers' delight

http://www.science.nasa.gov - This National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)-maintained website should be of immense interest to space-…

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