Civil Aviation Minister says speculation on the causes of the accident at Kozhikode is “inappropriate and wrong”
Genetics GM rice to fight rotavirus A NEW genetically modified (GM) rice variety could protect children from rotavirus, the ...
Space Mysterious magnetar SCIENTISTS using the European Space Agency’s XMM-Newton space telescope have discovered ...
Astronomy Cosmic bursts of a distant past MYSTERIOUS bursts of radio waves originating from billions of light years away have left ...
Physics A new way to trap light Known ways of “trapping” light use mirrors, other reflective surfaces or high-tech ...
Medicine Early detection of AMD ENGINEERS at the United Kingdom Astronomy Technology Centre (UK ATC), part of the ...
Birth of a star Birth of a monster star NEW observations using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have given ...
Astronomy Neptune’s new moon THE National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (NASA) Hubble Space Telescope has ...
NAL Crash sled THE National Aerospace Laboratories (NAL), a subsidiary of India’s Council of Scientific ...
Biotechnology Bill Missing the purpose Critics of the Biotechnology Regulatory Authority of India Bill say that instead of ...
Medicine Cranial radiation therapy RADIATION therapy targeted at a person’s head, also known as prophylactic cranial ...
Plastics Shape-memory plastics IN a breakthrough research, biomaterial scientists in Teltow, Germany, have developed ...
Space In mission mode T. S. Subramanian ISRO has 12 missions lined up over the next eight months. K. Radhakrishnan, its Chairman, ...
Wi-Fi Seeing through walls NOW X-ray vision is no longer sci-fi, thanks to researchers at the Massachusetts Institute ...
Genetics Making genetic sense of horses SCIENTISTS at the Centre for GeoGenetics at the Natural History Museum of Denmark ...
Forensics Fluorescent fingerprint A NEW technique based on colour-changing fluorescent films could lead to higher-confidence ...
Astronomy Winds of Venus THE most detailed record of cloud motion in the atmosphere of Venus by the European Space ...
Medical research Statins and diabetes risk STATINS are a class of drugs used to lower cholesterol levels as increased cholesterol ...
Astronomy Nuclear pasta A STUDY led by the University of Alicante has detected what may be the first observational ...
Atomic weight Not-so-constant weights STANDARD atomic weights for chemical elements, we were told from school days, are ...
Palaeontology 408-million-year-old fish fossil in Spain THE fossilised remains of scales and bones found in Teruel and the south of Zaragoza in ...
Physics Creating chaos to harvest light AN international team of physicists has demonstrated that chaos can beat order, at least ...
Fukushima Study Radiation risks low “RADIATION exposure following the nuclear accident at Fukushima-Daiichi did not cause any ...
Medicine A step ahead R. RAMACHANDRAN India has successfully developed its first-ever truly indigenous vaccine, Rotavac, against ...
Thermal Dynamics Thermal invisibility cloak BY means of special metamaterials, light and sound can be passed around objects.
