Smart homes

Soon, your house could take care of simple household functions, such as controlling heating and lighting

Hot option

Heliostats may now trap half the energy from sunlight and convert it into electrical and heat energy

Kalpana Chawla—a mission becomes impossible

In all the media hype, the legacy left behind by the Columbia (STS-107) crew was almost forgotten–a wealth of information gathered from …

Simply put: Politics shakti

Stainless glass

How soot can help surfaces repel both oil and water

How old is the universe?

...or how young?

Weighty matter

No easy smokes

Remote sensing devices for measuring vehicular emissions have come of age

Microwave pollution detector

Just cool it

Using electricity to draw out pollutants from soil

A cheap and environmentally benign technology has been developed to rid soils of contaminants

Keeping Mars clean

US space shot lifts tethered satellite

Comet snaring

Genetic signature

Laser duster

New light on the past

Latest technologies are set to bring a sea change in the field of archaeology and anthropology

Warning signals

Short-lived independence

Scientists may have had their first glance of a rare state of matter -- a quark-gluon plasma

Creating impressions

Mobile fax-machines

Big, bigger

Original breakthrough

Firm coat

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