What a switch

A bacterium in optical communications

Molecular computers

Irish study gives the green signal

Tropical high-altitude glaciers are melting fast

Glacial melting assumes huge proportions

Doctored!

Ethics of science in practice

Crusaders of science

A conference for the common good the mainstream media ignored

Role reversal

India to work together with the US to launch satellites

Indian lunar mission to US aid

US to piggyback on Indian lunar mission

Rain drops

Less precipitation over fewer days in Orissa

Aging science

The 91st Indian Science Congress was old wine in a tainted bottle

Original knock out

Cellular system to silence genes found

Cooking up mustard

This genetically modified plant is a marker of discontent

The first Indians

Among the world's oldest indigenous populations, too

Sea change

Dam construction facilitates

Bleeding white

Antarctic microbes could be rampantly exploited to benefit a few

Fusion power

France to host global thermonuclear project to generate electricity

Aerial threat to Ganga basin

Significant ozone depletion

Shaky foundation

Seismic zoning map for the country underestimates risk

Weathering the drought

Meteorological Department attempts to get its act together after bungling with monsoon predictions

Himalayan hazard

The next big quake can kill 150,000 people, claim seismologists; say traditional construction is safer

As clean as coal

India dithers on cleaner coal technologies. But it has the technology to help the thermal power sector clean up its act

Landing on the red planet

The world's powers celebrated Christmas 2003 in style: they sent robotic geologists to the red planet Mars, Earth's uninviting and hostile …

US embraces nuclear reactors to power spacecrafts

Thirty years after they were abandoned for good, nuclear reactors are making a fatal comeback in the US spacecrafts. In 2003, the US National …