Ignorance is bliss! While some cancer screening tests - for cervical cancer or breast cancer - clearly save lives, the benefits of
other screening tests are less clear. According to
medical experts, in testing for cancer, early results
can actually mislead.
When dark matters... As cosmologists are groping literally in the dark to understand the universe, ongoing and future experiments may come up with clues to identify at least a key component of the universe, dark matter. Kalyan Ray elaborates.
Scientific spirit Dr M Nageswara Rao and Dr Jaya R Soneji, a couple from Madhugiri, have made headlines in the field of genetics and plant breeding. Their team's work on producing seedless citrus was broadcast on 'Fox News'.
Light matters Surpassing nature, scientists bend light backward.
Using tiny wires and fishnet structures, researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, have found new ways to bend light backward, something that never occurs in nature.
