April 5, 2026

Science Chronicle

A Science and Technology Blog

April 5, 2026

Science Chronicle

A Science and Technology Blog

Author: Prasad Ravindranath

All authors ‘approved final version’ of superbug report: Lancet

Published in The Hindu on August 15, 2010 All the authors, including the Indian researchers, involved in the project approved

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Nature

First use of stone tools pushed back by 8 lakh years

Published in The Hindu on August 12, 2010 So when did hominins (members of human lineage) start using stone tools

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Climate changeEditorial

Editorial: A timely effort

Published in The Hindu on August 9, 2010 If the number of species that live on land is not fully

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Nature

Sponge species sheds light on animal evolution

Published in The Hindu on August 5, 2010 What is so unique about sea sponges that scientists should care to

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DiabetesEditorial

Editorial: Long-acting insulin

Published in The Hindu on August 4, 2010 With animal studies trying out a single injection of a large assembly

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Health

Cholesterol: low HDL level not a risk?

Published in The Hindu on July 22, 2010 The more the high density lipoprotein (or HDL) cholesterol, or good cholesterol

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EditorialISRO

Editorial: Welcome Studsat

Published in The Hindu on July 22, 2010 Thirty-five undergraduate students from seven engineering colleges, four in Bangalore and three

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EditorialNature

Editorial: Early humans in a colder climate

Published in The Hindu on July 13, 2010 When and how far did early humans venture into the cold climatic

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Evidence of early humans who lived in colder climate found

Published in The Hindu on July 8, 2010 How far north did early humans who migrated out of Africa some

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EditorialMarsNASA

Editorial: Water on Mars

Published in The Hindu on July 2, 2010 After several attempts, researchers have successfully studied the composition of Mars’ northern

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Nature

Earliest multicellular, O2 breathing organisms found

Published in The Hindu on July 1, 2010 Atmospheric oxygen concentration on earth first started increasing about 2.45-2.32 billion years

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EarthquakeEditorial

Editorial: L’Aquila, a bizarre indictment

Published in The Hindu on June 25, 2010 In what may go down in history as one of the more

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Editorial

Editorial: The power of cash incentives

Published in the Hindu on June 18, 2010 The Janani Suraksha Yojana, a path-breaking conditional cash transfer initiative launched in

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