Indian lunar mission to US aid

US to piggyback on Indian lunar mission

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 …

Weathering the drought

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

At an atom's level

Nanotechnology has immense potential, but it is also a little-known area with many dangers

Tropical high-altitude glaciers are melting fast

Glacial melting assumes huge proportions

What a switch

A bacterium in optical communications

Combining chips and drives

In today's information world, bits of data are processed by semiconductor chips, but stored in magnetic disc drives. Limitations of this …

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 …

Simple yet efficient

Grassroots innovations are often better than high-tech equipments, shows a new geyser

Role reversal

India to work together with the US to launch satellites

Rain drops

Less precipitation over fewer days in Orissa

Aging science

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

Home made potash

New Technology will help save foreign exchange

Molecular computers

Irish study gives the green signal

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

Sci-tech headway

Science and technology capacity building centre set to take off

Silver iodide lining

Cloud seeding is a safe but improbable method to enhance rains

Long lives the drink

New technology facilitates commercialisation of coconut water

Cooking up mustard

This genetically modified plant is a marker of discontent

No passing through

New carbon-based nanotube filter cleans drinking water, petroleum too

Bleeding white

Antarctic microbes could be rampantly exploited to benefit a few

Archaeology helps to unlearn too

Archaeology is the science that studies the remains of past cultures by investigating and analysing the objects people leave behind. It is a …

Filter out trouble

Gold and silver nanoparticles remove pesticides from water