Is it the soul? Is it the mind? Or is it something outside the confines of the human body? Author most elusive of mental phenomenon of consciousness

Mind-body medicine: in the realm of the possible but wholly inexplicable, this loose curative system has more takers every day

...and latest findings have 2 groups of mutually hostile astronomers still going cockeyed trying to gauge the age of the universe

The 4.5 million year blind leap from "almost human" to Homo sapiens continues to baffle palaeontologists, but 2 new finds offer a new understanding of human evolution.

Channels and valleys observed on the Martian surface and meteorites of Martian origin indicate that once there might have been water on the planet

What determines a person"s behaviour through the vicissitudes of life: genes, environment or both? There are many who believe that genetic determinism is fascist ideology in scientific garb. There are others who hold that genetics holds the key to everlas

A fabric developed at the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, promises to keep sweat from being a bother

Nonconformist to the core, Linus C Pauling epitomised the spirit of science and peace

Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin, crystallographer and Nobel laureate in chemistry, sparkled in a predominantly male preserve

Geographical Information Systems is revolutionising the present and portend a happier future. Or so we hope in the maps of our minds.

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