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End of the climate-change bubble? |
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 Going by the evidence we have, it appears that the fascinating Climate Change bubble is on its last legs and a burst is imminent. That will bring back the scientific rigour and discipline that is now missing in climate research. By Shivshanker Verma |
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Newly engineered enzyme is a powerful staph antibiotic |
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 With their best chemical antibiotics slowly failing, scientists are increasingly looking to nature for a way to control deadly staph bacteria - the culprit behind most hospital infections |
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Weight training improves cognitive function in seniors |
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 Weight-bearing exercises may help minimise cognitive decline and impaired mobility in seniors, according to a new study conducted by the Centre for Hip Health and Mobility at Vancouver Coastal Health and the University of British Columbia |
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The train - journey into the inner self |
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 Born and brought up in the United States and eager to experience India firsthand, Karl Rosario travels to India. The teenager is overwhelmed by the reality that is India, but soon realises that it has another face |
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Levitating magnet brings space physics to fusion |
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 Tests on an experimental machine that mimics a planet's magnetic field show that it may offer an 'alternative path' to taming nuclear fusion for power generation, David L. Chandler, MIT News Office |
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Genetic "atlas" of cells will pinpoint causes of disease, improve drug treatments |
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Scientists at the University of Toronto have discovered a way to map the interactions of genes within a cell, that could lead to more precise targeting of drug treatments. By Chris Garbutt, faculty of medicine, University of Toronto |
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White roofs may successfully cool cities |
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 Computer simulations indicate that if every roof were entirely painted white, the urban heat island effect could be reduced by 33 per cent, reveals ongoing research by a study team, led by scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado |
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Murli Deora goes on African oil hunt with small change |
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 Petroleum minister Murli Deora, currently on an African oil safari, is hunting for oil and energy assets for the country armed with a budget that seems a mere pittance while competing with multi-billion dollar budgets from Chinese and Western rivals.Ravi Kunder reports |
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India is a strategic growth market for TelStrat |
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 Although we had many invitations from a number of channels and distributors, we had to build our model right before entering a market like India Arun Krishnankutty, director, Asia Pacific, TelStrat, tells domain-b's Sanjeev Verma in an exclusive interview |
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Picture-driven computing |
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 New research could enable computer programming based on screen shots, not just code. By Larry Hardesty, MIT News Office |
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Keck I telescope helps Caltech astronomers spot a "super earth" |
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 HD 156668b was discovered with the radial velocity or wobble method, which relies on Keck's High Resolution Echelle Spectrometer (HIRES) to spread light collected from the telescope into its component wavelengths or colours, producing a spectrum |
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High energy physicists set new record for network data transfer |
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Caltech-led high-energy physicists show how long range networks can be used to support leading edge science |
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