The Big & The Beautiful An atomic-powered craft, being built at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and scheduled for a 2009 launch, aims to settle once and for all whether the conditions on Mars have ever been suitable for life.
Devil toads A fossil of a South American frog family has been found in Madagascar, evidence enough to suggest that the two regions were once land-linked. S Ananthanarayanan reports.
When maths and biology come together Mathematics and biology were poles apart. Until now. Advances in life sciences is increasingly relying on mathematics for modelling and other methods. However, India has a lot to catch up in making this connection.
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