Public Health Expert opinion for cancer patients IN a move to standardise cancer care nationally, the Tata Trusts and the Tata Memorial ...
Medicine Secret of the body’s self-renewal R. RAMACHANDRAN This year’s Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to 71-year-old ...
Space Cryogenic gains for GSLV T.S. SUBRAMANIAN ISRO announces its arrival in the global satellite launch market with the successful ...
Scramjet success THE air-breathing propulsion experiment on August 28 was a success beyond expectations.
Essay Hindutva’s science envy MEERA NANDA Claiming an organic unity between the Vedic world view and modern science has been the ...
Gas exploration Huge helium reserves in Tanzania A NEW approach to gas exploration has discovered a huge helium gas field, which could ...
Nanotechnology A ‘nano’ drum RESEARCHERS in the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Mumbai, have ...
Climate change Paris agreement and climate change PLEDGES made for the Paris agreement on climate change last winter would lead to global ...
Nuclear Energy IAEA’s uranium ‘bank’ THE IAEA Low Enriched Uranium (LEU) Bank is scheduled to be ready for operations by ...
Entomology Moths & street lighting STREET lights change the natural behaviour of moths and disrupt nocturnal pollination, new ...
Technology Advances in terahertz imaging TERAHERTZ imaging, which exists between the microwave and infrared wavelengths, has ...
Astronomy Swirling ammonia over Jupiter USING the upgraded Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) in New Mexico, University of ...
Space Growing wings R. RAMACHANDRAN T.S. SUBRAMANIAN ISRO crosses yet another milestone with the successful launch and return of a winged ...
Interview: A.S. Kiran Kumar ‘Design process has been validated’ R. RAMACHANDRAN T.S. SUBRAMANIAN Interview with Dr A.S. Kiran Kumar, Chairman, Indian Space Research Organisation.
Awards Special prize THE Selection Committee of the Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics announced on May ...
Astronomy Hubble & Bubble Nebula TWENTY-SIX years ago, on April 24, 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) was launched ...
Medicine Cancer drug for brain disorder? AN experimental cancer drug can improve learning and memory in mice with fragile X ...
Earth Sciences Extreme rainfall & erosion IT seems intuitive that the force of an intense rainfall would lead to massive erosion of ...
Awards Maths prize for Wiles Sir Andrew Wiles has been awarded the 2016 Abel Prize for “his stunning proof of Fermat’s ...
Climate change Sea level rise cannot be pumped away BURNING fossil fuels leads to greenhouse gas emissions that cause global warming. The ...
Material Science Carbon nanotubes ONE of the main reasons for limiting the operating lifetime of nuclear reactors is that ...
Life Sciences Seed time capsule IN a visionary project of the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF), called “Project ...
Gravitational waves Ripples from the past R. RAMACHANDRAN The first detection of the sounds of the cosmos may be the harbinger of more such signals, ...
Gravitational waves New cosmic messengers ABHAY ASHTEKAR The gravitational waves detected by the LIGO observatories in the United States on ...
