June 10, 2026

Science Chronicle

A Science and Technology Blog

June 10, 2026

Science Chronicle

A Science and Technology Blog

Day: December 12, 2015

Cardio vascular diseasesDiabetesObesity

Junk food: curbing direct marketing to children

Published in The Hindu on November 23, 2006 The ability of even a three-year-old child to identify and use pester-power

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EditorialObesity

Editorial: Countering an alarming trend

Published in The Hindu on November 22, 2006 If communicable diseases were the bane of society the world over some

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EditorialWHOWorld Health Organisation

Editorial: Practical approach to malaria control

Published in The Hindu on August 17, 2006 In a clear departure from its earlier stand on dichlorodiphenyl-trichloro ethane (DDT)

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Avian influenza

New bird flu strain emerges

Published in The Hindu on November 9, 2006 In a move that is hardly surprising, China has denied the emergence

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Stem cells

How adult stem cells injected into heart improve its function

Published in The Hindu on October 26, 2006 He is the only person so far to get the U.S. Food

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Detecting explosives with CO2 laser

Published in The Hindu on October 19, 2006 For C. Kumar N. Patel, the man who invented the carbon dioxide

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Nanotechnology

Nanofilter suit for chemical warfare

Published in The Hindu on October 12, 2006 For Seshadri Ramkumar the task was cut out – developing a higher

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CDCNatureTuberculosisWHOWorld Health Organisation

Editorial: A warning signal

Published in the Hindu on October 12, 2006 The discovery of a highly virulent strain — extremely drug resistant tuberculosis

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CDCNatureTuberculosis

Extremely drug-resistant TB emerges

Published in The Hindu on September 28, 2006 “Drug-resistant TB has frequently been encountered in India and its presence has

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Vaccines

Bacterial resistance to penicillin on the rise

Published in The Hindu on September 21, 2006 The consequences of a drug being used and misused on a large

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EarthquakeNature

Quakes: of prediction, coincidence and panic

Published in The Hindu on September 14, 2006 Next time when someone predicts an earthquake with great certainty and specifies

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Hwang Woo SukNatureScience

When rewards prove counterproductive

Published in The Hindu on September 7, 2006 Publish or perish. Researchers around the world are only too aware of

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IGCAR

Pluto’s demotion, science and superstition

Published in The Hindu on August 31, 2006 Pluto, we are sorry for you. Though Pluto may no longer find

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