Special Features

Fine-tuned friction
Make way for on-demand friction with a technique that promises to help in multiple fields.
Flashes of mystery
FRBs — high-powered, short-lived bursts of radio light — continue to baffle scientists.
Twists in the quantum tale
TIFR physicists have produced a superconducting diode that works at high temperatures.
All tanked up
A start-up is developing world-beating technology for the safe transport and storage of hydrogen.
Proton therapy: the beam of hope
A new centre harnesses high-energy proton beams to transform the way certain cancers are treated.