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For the much-hyped Bihar suburb of Taregana, the July 22 total solar eclipse turned out to be a no-show, thanks to truant monsoon clouds. Debiprosad Duari, who was there to get a vantage view, says he isn't disappointed as he witnessed another historic event -- the roaring success of India's science popularisation programme in a rural hamlet.
There's a lot of debate on whether the Indus valley script is evolved enough to be categorised as 'linguistic'. Nature India traces the history of scientific work regarding this, the latest findings and views for and against the theory.
In times when much-debated stem cell therapies are opening up myriad treatment options for every possible malady, could heart ailments be far behind? In a critical analysis of use of human stem cells in clinical studies and animal models, Lakshmi Pillai and Deepa Bhartiya also look at the hurdles that need to be crossed to make stem-cell based regenerative medicine a reality.
