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NOBEL PRIZE: Physics

Catching cosmic chirps

This year’s Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to three U.S. scientists, Rainer Weiss, Kip S. Thorne and Barry C. Barish, for their contribution

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NOBEL PRIZE: CHEMISTRY

Imaging molecules

Jacques Dubochet of Switzerland, Richard Henderson of the U.K. and Joachim Frank of the U.S. have been awarded this year’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry fo

Space & nuclear power

Space flights, nuclear power and a missile shield

India’s achievements in space, marked by missions to the moon and Mars; its nuclear power programme; and the range of missiles in its armoury were mad

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Floundering about after promising start

Jawaharlal Nehru had worked with a distinct vision for the role S&T would play in the country’s development, but poor funding for the area in the

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Tracking arboviruses

Bats and other small mammals that chronically harbour viruses act as disease reservoirs, though the exact pathways through which these are transmitted

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An oxygen mystery

Two Caltech chemical engineers, on the basis of their experience with semiconductor fabrication technology, have come up with a novel theory that migh

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Science & Technology

Swadeshi success

BEHIND the success of the GSLV-MkIII D1 lay 15 years of developmental efforts of the vehicle’s massive strap-on motors, the core liquid stage and the

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Memories of a Bangalore quartet

Satish Dhawan, Sivaraj Ramaseshan, G.N. Ramachandran, and H. Narasimhaiah dominated the scientific landscape of Bengaluru between 1970 and 1990 as co

Fighting cotton pests

UNIVERSITY of Arizona scientists, together with Chinese researchers, have discovered a strategy that can delay and even reverse evolution of resistanc

Holograms using wi-fi

SCIENTISTS at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have developed a holographic imaging process that enables the radiation of a standard Wi-Fi rou

FILE - In this Jan. 28, 2014, file photo, a hive of honeybees appears on display at the Vermont Beekeeping Supply booth at the annual Vermont Farm Show at the Champlain Valley Expo in Essex Junction, Vt. The federal government hopes to reverse America's declining honeybee and monarch butterfly populations by making more federal land bee-friendly, spending more money on research and considering the use of less pesticides. (AP Photo/Andy Duback, File)

How honeybees choose nests

USING a model inspired by networks of coupled neurons, researchers from the University of Sheffield, led by Andreagiovanni Reina, have investigated th