Civil Aviation Minister says speculation on the causes of the accident at Kozhikode is “inappropriate and wrong”
Technology An end to power cuts R. RAMACHANDRAN Researchers at IIT Madras come up with an innovative solution to link decentralised ...
Nuclear power Japanese reactors cleared TWO units at the Takahama nuclear power plant in Japan received the final approval from ...
Black holes Huge black hole AN international team of astronomers led by Xue-Bing Wu at Peking University discovered a ...
Biology & Research When is biology quantum? BIOLOGICAL processes such as vision, photosynthesis and animal magnetoreception (for ...
Medicine Tackling Ebola FOR over five years, a team of U.S. and German researchers led by Yasuteru Sakurai and ...
Science Neutrino scare R. Ramachandran India’s neutrino project, slated to come up in Bodi hills in Tamil Nadu, once again runs ...
Electronics Extreme electronics INCREASINGLY, industries are beginning to require electronics that can operate reliably in ...
Health A chilli for your pain Capsaicin, a chemical found in chillies, is known to have pain-relieving effects. It burns ...
Environment Plastic ocean In 2010, about eight million tonnes (mt) of plastic waste ended up in the oceans of the ...
Astronomy Five-planet star On the basis of data gathered by NASA’s Kepler mission, scientists led by ...
Blood glucose & pancreatic cancer EPIDEMIOLOGICALLY, it is known that type 2 diabetes is a risk factor for pancreatic ...
No ant traffic jams STUDIES of ant trails have shown that the insects never seem to get into a traffic jam ...
Planetary boundaries crossed THE concept of planetary boundaries, developed by a global community of scholars with the ...
‘Lost’ and found THE Beagle 2 Mars Lander, built by the U.K. and launched in 2003, had been thought lost on ...
May 20, 2005 Einstein's century IN the spring of 1905, a hundred years ago, a young man began the journey from obscurity ...
January 16, 2004 ISRO rising WHEN the orange trail lit up the twilight sky over the fishing village of Thumba near ...
April 11, 2008 Vaccine worries THE Cover Story by Frontline (April 11, 2008) and other media reports on the suspension ...
Mathematics Calculus & India There is probably no hope of ever coming to a firm conclusion on whether calculus ...
Space Giant leap for ISRO T. S. Subramanian GSLV-Mark III puts a 3.75-tonne unmanned crew module into a sub-orbit as per plan, making ...
Health Conquering fear The research findings of Sumantra Chattarji and Supriya Ghosh may lead to a potential ...
Nuclear Energy Safety first At Rawatbhatta in Rajasthan, work on two 700 MWe indigenous reactors is in full swing, ...
Cosmic secrets COMETS are the most primitive objects in our cosmic neighbourhood. They are fragile and ...
Space On a comet R. RAMACHANDRAN The orbiter Rosetta and its lander Philae make a historic cometary mission, despite an ...
