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
Read MoreEvidence 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
Read MoreEditorial: Water on Mars
Published in The Hindu on July 2, 2010 After several attempts, researchers have successfully studied the composition of Mars’ northern
Read MoreEarliest 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
Read MoreEditorial: 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
Read MoreEditorial: 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
Read MoreEditorial: WHO and conflicts of interest
Published in The Hindu on June 14, 2010 A year after the World Health Organisation declared an Influenza A(H1N1) pandemic,
Read MoreEditorial: A ray of hope
Published in The Hindu on June 3, 2010 The results of a vaccine trial for preventing breast cancer in mice
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Neanderthal genes in modern humans
Did Neanderthals and modern humans interbreed? While several methods, including the study of mitochondrial DNA of Neanderthals, failed to
Read MoreChemical signature of Archaeopteryx revealed
Published in The Hindu on May 13, 2010 For the first time ever, chemical analysis of Archaeopteryx — a transitional
Read MoreThe chance discovery of the ozone hole
Published in The Hindu on May 5, 2010 Twenty-five years ago British scientists — Joseph Farman, Brian Gardiner and Jonathan
Read MoreEditorial: Doing science in a new way
Published in The Hindu on April 17, 2010 The recent successful mapping of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis (TB) genome by the
Read MoreHow the young brigade mapped the TB genome
Published in The Hindu on April 15, 2010 When nearly 400 motivated students, with the help of a few faculty
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