Going beyond the curriculum
The Indian information technology and business process outsourcing industries have been witnessing a galloping growth of 25 per cent a
Read MoreThe end of mixed carbide fuel
Twenty years after the Fast Breeder Test Reactor (FBTR) at Kalpakkam in Tamil Nadu went critical, the mixed carbide fuel
Read MoreThe perils of science fraud
In early 2004, Woo Suk Hwang, a stem cell researcher from Seoul National University (SNU), gained worldwide fame for `successfully’
Read MoreFundamentalism versus science
With a stroke of the pen, President George Bush has dealt a body blow to science and dashed the hopes
Read MoreEditorial: Rewards of basic research
Published in The Hindu on October 7, 2006 The Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine awarded this year to Andrew
Read MoreUniversities as centres of research excellence
In a move to stem the rapid deterioration of research in Indian universities, the Union Ministry of Human Resource Development
Read MoreEditorial: An advice well taken
Published in The Hindu on February 20, 2006 Nearly a year after the commencement of the Phase I clinical trial
Read MoreSecond Indian AIDS vaccine trial initiated
Published in The Hindu on February 9, 2006 It must have been a case of coincidence. Many important events of
Read MoreAIDS vaccine trial in India
Published in The Hindu on February 7, 2006 The Phase I clinical trial of the AIDS test vaccine was initiated
Read More‘We don’t believe in process labelling’
This is the first time that Madelyn E. Spirnak, Senior Advisor for Agricultural Biotechnology, U.S. Department of State, is visiting
Read MoreHwang Woo Suk: all eyes on journals’ conflict of interest policy
Published in The Hindu on January 26, 2006 Hwang Woo Suk of Seoul National University, one of the biggest science
Read MoreISRO: Towards air-breathing rockets
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) added another feather to its cap when it successfully tested the use of oxygen
Read MoreMAPS reactors get a new lease of life
Published in The Hindu on January 12, 2006 The first unit of the Madras Atomic Power Station (MAPS) at Kalpakkam
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