Title: Myth Breaker: Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw & the Story of Indian Biotech; Author: Seema Singh; Publisher: Collins Business; Pages: 324; Price: Rs.599


How Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw broke the glass ceiling with Biocon (Book Review)(Lead, correcting figure in last paragraph)


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An experimental malaria vaccine has been found to protect a small number of healthy people from infection for more than one year after immunisation, says a study.


Malaria vaccine offers durable protection in human trials


Presence of warm water in the Pacific Ocean due to a stalled  El Nino in 2014  stacked the deck for a monstrous version of the warming climate cycle to occur in 2015, a study says.


What caused the monster El Nino in 2015?


Title: Black Hole Blues and Other Songs from Outer Space; Author: Janna Levin; Publisher: Bodley Head/Penguin Random House; Pages:256; Price: Rs.599


Hearing whispers across the cosmos: LIGO's inside story (Book Review) 


Turning the traditional knowledge on its head that young Earth had a thicker atmosphere, scientists, including an Indian-origin researcher, have found that air at that time exerted at most half the pressure of today's atmosphere.


Air on young Earth weighed less than half: Researchers


Hundreds of space enthusiasts in Delhi witnessed a tiny black dot crossing the Sun, marking a rare astronomical event -- the Mercury transit as the planet crossed the Sun between 4.43 p.m. and 7.01 p.m. on Monday.


Hundreds witness Mercury transit in Delhi, scientists in Srinagar disappointed


As many as 36 animal and plant species in Gujarat have been categorized as endangered by the International Union of Conservation of Nature (IUCN), Union Minister of State for Environment and Forests Prakash Javadekar said on Monday.


36 animal, plant species endangered in Gujarat


Want to conserve water and grow plants indoors without soil? One can do that by using fish poop.


Use fish poop to feed plants, conserve water


In a move that could immensely benefit private space technology companies, NASA has released 56 formerly patented agency technologies into the public domain, making its government-developed technologies freely available for unrestricted commercial use.


NASA makes dozens of patents free for use


Researchers have developed a device with the potential of shortening the time required to rapidly diagnose bacterial infections from days to a couple  of hours.


Novel rapid test for bacterial infections found promising


Although it may sound counterintuitive, researchers from the University of Adelaide say that the global increase in Type-1 diabetes is directly linked to advances in medical care that has significantly increased the life expectancy of people.


Advances in medical care linked to Type-1 diabetes boom


Male voices are not deeply pitched in order to attract female mates but to dominate the competition with other males, finds a new study that analysed a wide variety of primates including humans.


Deep-pitched voice in males liked to dominance


While the full moon does not make kids hyperactive - as commonly believed - it may decrease their sleep time by five minutes on an average, says a study.


Full moon can shorten children's sleep a little


Researchers have discovered how hijacking a human immune molecule the Zika virus infection in pregnant women can stunt neonatal brain development, leading to babies born with abnormally small heads -- a condition known as microcephaly.


How Zika virus stunts foetal brain development


Mother's milk gives babies antibodies along with microbes to support the infant's gut immune responses, new research says.


How mother's milk boosts baby's immunity


Leading astronomers from across India and abroad will gather here on May 9 to view rare celestial event, the "Transit of Mercury", which will be best viewed from Jammu and Kashmir.


Leading astronomers to see 'Transit of Mercury' from Srinagar


Your favourite strawberries and bananas can stay fresh for more than a week without refrigeration if they are coated in a thin, odourless, biocompatible silk solution, says a study.


Silk coating can keep fruit fresh without refrigeration


The Zoological Survey of India (ZSI) is helping preserve some of the partially-damaged rare specimens of the Calcutta University's zoology department museum that was ravaged by a recent fire, officials said on Friday.


ZSI to preserve fire-ravaged specimens of Calcutta University


Researchers have developed a miniature camera that can be mounted onto the eyeglasses of people who are legally blind -- vision with 20/200 or worse in the better eye -- and dramatically improve their ability to read an email or a newspaper article.


Miniature camera helps people with low vision read better 


It is possible for us to intentionally forget past experiences by changing how we think about the context of those memories, says a study.


How to get bad memories out of your head


A team of astronomers has for the first time derived a highly precise measurement of the mass of a black hole -- calculating its mass to be 660 million times greater than that of the Sun.

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