Science & Technology

A CENTURY AND a half ago an alien insect alighted in Europe. It displaced millions, ruined local economies and forced...

IN FEBRUARY 2018 a panel of experts convened by the World Health Organisation (WHO) put together a list of diseases...

THERE IS "LOCKDOWN". And then there is lockdown. Those who have spent the past weeks allowed out only to exercise...

DRUG DISCOVERY is, almost by definition, an emotional rollercoaster. The path to success is strewn with false hopes, disappointment and...

ONCE PRAISED as a miracle cure for covid-19, an antimalarial drug called hydroxychloroquine has rarely been out of the headlines...

WHEN AN EARTHQUAKE rocked Nepal in 2015, geophysicists were surprised to find that they could see its reflection in the...

MICE ARE, as it were, the guinea pigs of science. And these days they are often genetically engineered guinea pigs,...

PEOPLE ARE familiar with the idea of probiotic bacteria, which, if consumed as part of someone's diet, are supposed to...

WHEN AN EARTHQUAKE rocked Nepal in 2015, geophysicists were surprised to find that they could see its reflection in the...

MICE ARE, as it were, the guinea pigs of science. And these days they are often genetically engineered guinea pigs,...