Cosmic radiations originate in earth's galaxy

Latest satellite observations provide an answer to the long-standing query: What is the source of cosmic rays -- high energy radiations -- that …

Fresh light illumines search for dark matter

New evidence has emerged for the existence of dark matter -- an invisible constituent of the universe that is believed to play a key role in the …

Industry wary of entering handicapped market

New, more efficient aids are being developed for the physically handicapped under a government project. The stumbling blocks, however, are the …

The mystery of the aquadeaths

One of the most lucrative pisciculture activities today, shrimp cultivation in India was recently given a devastating body blow by a mysterious …

Seven-in-one

The highly laborious and time consuming process of sugarcane planting has been made simpler, thanks to a multiple-function device developed by …

Saved by a signal

Rescue operations in the high seas get a boost with the development of a new communication device

Graft craft

An artificial blood vessel, developed indigenously, would shortly undergo clinical trials on humans, heralding a new era in India's medical technology

Born in a dish

The birth of a mouse in a petri dish -the end result of the use of an effective technique to manipulate oocytes -heralds a new era in …

Papermaking at your doorstep

Although papermaking has traditionally been located in urban settings, technological innovations brought about by an NGO brings a new trade to …

Nature's laboratory

The ice cover almost 4.8 km thick is perhaps the most valuable feature of Antarctica, with its record of past atmospheres in the trapped air bubbles

Gas to liquid

A new physical process will help convert natural gas into liquid fuel, making it easier to transport

Look sharp

With the most powerful telescope in the world coming up in Chile, our view of the final frontier is sure to become larger and clearer

"Centralised wastewater treatment does not work"

The Centre For Scientific Research Trust (CSR), Auroville, Pondicherry has pioneered the decentralised wastewater treatment system in India. …

Hanging by a silk

It’s flexible yet tougher than a bullet-proof jacket. Are we anywhere near deciphering the fibre?

Craning at the treetops

Cleaning up the plastic act

Researchers are taking the dirt out of plastic

Love through catastrophe

Cold signatures in wood

A 300 year-old tree from Kashmir reveals that Europe's Little Ice Age had even affected India

Omens of deluge

Estimates of sea-level rises vary considerably

The beauty myth

Blame it on the genes

Some disorders of the nervous system for which faulty genes are responsible:

Seeding a la bulls

Transistors' hour of departure

A cheap fluidic alternative to a semiconducting transistor is set to invade the market

Brothers in arms

These robots know what teamwork means

Celestial lab

Black hole found in the Milky Way to help decipher cosmos