Bigger & better As Mars rovers near their fourth landing anniversaries, Dr Amitabha Ghosh updates us on Mars Science Laboratory, a bigger rover built to further the exploration of Mars.
Getting to the stem of it all Even as cancer patients survival remains the ultimate endpoint, scientists debate stem cells
role in cancer.
Mind over matter Does Alzheimers strike suddenly in old age or does it begin long before the mind fails? Efforts are now on to find ways to detect the disease at the earliest possible moment.
Its lonely at the top Global warming is threatening the survival of four penguin species in the Antarctic.
Possibilities aplenty! Energy conservation, cleaner technologies to
reduce emission and augmenting energy
generation from potential renewable energy sources can go a long way in addressing
global warming.
There is a proposal to set up a commission for reorganisation of states. Is it desirable to have smaller states? Deccan Herald had invited its readers to comment on the topic. While some of the readers believe that it is good to have smaller states as it would help the government machinery to function effectively, others opine that the division of states would affect the already diminishing national unity and could only add troubles to the country.
