The big aftershock

Quake activates nearby faults, triggers more quakes

Searing thirst

Do not water your plants under a fiercely glaring sun

Devanagri neuro-deciphered

The Indian script is complex, the brain works hard to read it

Nemo’s find

There are two sides to a coin

Sinks below and stays there

Problem fish

Farmed salmon escape their pens, threaten wild cousins

Headbangers' ball

A parasite's pantomime

Algal bloom kills birds

Nature’s mosquito repellent

Predator chemicals can prevent mosquitoes from breeding

Look beyond invasive species

Competition, not predation, is the most influential process that shapes food web  

GMs renegade genes

Ecological costs of a GM plant are higher than benefits

The dominant survives

Increasing nitrogen levels will pit plants against each other

Mosquitoes befuddled

Certain smells can lure mosquitoes away from humans

Billions of dollars, 50 years later

Small pox vaccine might have countered HIV  

Something for GM rallyists

Bt crops are durable agriculture if the refuge policy is strong  

Blame's on chimps

News for cooks

Frying meat on gas stove frees compounds that damage genes

Clue to save turtles

Agriculture runoff triggers fatal tumours in green sea turtles

Stress in the city

How brain behaves when stress builds up

Count fish before catch

Identify the weakest link in ecosystem-based management

Flooding out arsenic

The monsoons help decontaminate paddy soils