Guest Editorial
Joy of discovery as a reason for pursuing a career in science
B. Ananthanarayan
The Nobel laureate Serge Haroche while visiting India in January 2017 has been quoted as saying ‘Since they receive taxpayer’s money, the scientists can’t live in an ivory...
Correspondence
- Response by — Swaminathan, M. S. ; Full Text(PDF) Full Text(DjVu)
- Food and nutritional security — Gupta, P. K. ; Full Text(PDF) Full Text(DjVu)
- Copycats and impostors in science publishing: the case of Current Science — Teixeira da Silva, Jaime A. ; Full Text(PDF) Full Text(DjVu)
News
- Monitoring the spread and management of Tuta absoluta — Fayad, Amer ; Adiga, Abhijin ; Full Text(PDF) Full Text(DjVu)
- Green chemistry and engineering for sustainable development — Goel, Malti ; Full Text(PDF) Full Text(DjVu)
- India International Science Festival 2016 — Pandey, Shilpa ; Firoze Quamar, Md. ; Full Text(PDF) Full Text(DjVu)
Commentary
- A temporal analysis of the word ‘impact’ in titles published in Current Science between 1934 and 2015: to what impact? — Uma Shaanker, R. ; Full Text(PDF) Full Text(DjVu)
- Transforming Indian agriculture: is doubling farmers’ income by 2022 in the realm of reality? — Sendhil, R.; Ramasundaram, P.; Balaji, S. J. ; Full Text(PDF) Full Text(DjVu)
- Danger of a single score: NIRF rankings of colleges — Prathap, Gangan ; Full Text(PDF) Full Text(DjVu)
Scientific Correspondence
- Temporal variation of phytoplankton assemblage in estuarine waters: implication of cyclone Phailin — Baliarsingh, S. K.; Srichandan, Suchismita; Lotliker, Aneesh A.; Gracia-Escobar, M. F.; Tripathy, Madhusmita; Sahu, K. C.; Srinivasa Kumar, T. ; Full Text(PDF) Full Text(DjVu)
- Safflower (Carthamus tinctorius L.) – an underutilized leafy vegetable — Singh, Vrijendra; Jadhav, R. R.; Atre, G. E.; Kale, R. V.; Karande, P. T.; Kanbargi, K. D.; Nimbkar, N.; Rajvanshi, A. K. ; Full Text(PDF) Full Text(DjVu)
- Datura discolor Bernh. (Solanaceae), an overlooked species in India — Kumbhalkar, Bhagyashri B.; Nandikar, Mayur D. ; Full Text(PDF) Full Text(DjVu)
Review Articles
- Evolution and progress in the application of radiation in cancer diagnosis and therapy — Aggarwal, Gaurav ; Aggarwal, Suresh Kumar ; Full Text(PDF) Full Text(DjVu)
- Recent advances in optimization of photoanodes and counter electrodes of dye-sensitized solar cells — Bhagwat, Saily ; Dani, Riddhesh ; Full Text(PDF) Full Text(DjVu)
- Transgenics in ornamental crops — Sharma, Rishu ; Messar, Yalek ; Full Text(PDF) Full Text(DjVu)
Research Articles
- Wave generated structures in the Siwalik rocks — Suchana Taral ; Nandini Kar ; Tapan Chakraborty ; Full Text(PDF) Full Text(DjVu)
- Wave-generated structures in the Siwalik rocks of Tista valley, eastern Himalaya: implication for regional palaeogeography — Taral, Suchana; Kar, Nandini; Chakraborty, Tapan ; Full Text(PDF) Full Text(DjVu)
- Co-registration of LISS-4 multispectral band data using mutual information-based stochastic gradient descent optimization — Manthira Moorthi, S.; Dhar, D.; Sivakumar, R. ; Full Text(PDF) Full Text(DjVu)
Research Communications
- Callus-mediated organogenesis in Lilium polyphyllum — N. S. Subina ; Shanta Nair ; Maria-Judith Gonsalves ; Full Text(PDF) Full Text(DjVu)
- Evaluation of research organizations — Prathap, Gangan ; Full Text(PDF) Full Text(DjVu)
- Luminescence dating of Neolithic pottery — Sharma, Sukanya ; Singh, Pankaj ; Full Text(PDF) Full Text(DjVu)
Book Reviews
- Where the River Flows: Scientific Reflections on Earth’s Waterways by Sean W. Fleming — Sharma, Sudhirendar ; Full Text(PDF) Full Text(DjVu)
- Annual Review of Cell and Developmental Biology, 2016, Randy Schekman, Larry Goldstein and Ruth Lehmann — Nagaraj, R. ; Full Text(PDF) Full Text(DjVu)
- Annual Review of Biophysics, 2016, Ken A. Dill and Xiqowei Zhuang (eds) — Dutta, Somnath ; Full Text(PDF) Full Text(DjVu)
Personal News
- K. Chandrasekharan (1920–2017) — Narasimhan, M. S. ; Full Text(PDF) Full Text(DjVu)
- P. K. K. Nair — Garg, Garg ; Full Text(PDF) Full Text(DjVu)
- Erich Farber (1921–2017) — Rajvanshi, Anil K. ; Full Text(PDF) Full Text(DjVu)
Research News
- National Physical Laboratory demonstrates 1 g Kibble balance: Linkage of macroscopic mass to Planck constant — Kumar, Anil ; Kumar, Harish ; Ojha, V. N. ; Singh, Shakti ; Moona, Girija ; Satish; Dubey, P. K. ; Singh, H. K. ; Mandal, Goutam ; Aswal, D. K. ; Full Text(PDF) Full Text(DjVu)
- Elephant’s deterrence to cancer decoded — Sandhya Rani, B. ; Full Text(DjVu)
- Evolution of corn: role of single nucleotide polymorphism — Mahadeva, A. ; Full Text(DjVu)
Forthcoming Articles
Opinion
- Climate change and human–wildlife conflicts in the Indian Himalayan biodiversity hotspot — Gupta, Nishikant; Rajvanshi, Asha; Badola, Ruchi ; Full Text(PDF) Full Text(DjVu)
- Polarity, asymmetry and aging: are there Yayatis among bacteria? — Baig, Ulfat ; Watve, Milind ; Lele, Uttara ; Full Text(PDF) Full Text(DjVu)
- How to protect our valuable riverine fish species from multiple stressors? — Joshi, K. D. ; Full Text(PDF) Full Text(DjVu)
Historical Notes
- Records of sighting of Halley’s Comet in the 1531 apparition and an eclipse in Guru Nanak’s references — R. C. Kapoor ; Full Text(PDF) Full Text(DjVu)
- Debendra Mohan Bose (1885–1975) – an eminent physicist of India — Mukherji, Purabi ; Full Text(DjVu)
- Vedic rituals and the Aryan invasion theory — Prasanna, T. R. S. ; Full Text(DjVu)
Technical Notes
- Synthetic Aperture Sonar image of seafloor — Varghese, Saju ; Anil Kumar, A ; Nagendran, G. ; Balachandrudu, V. ; Sheikh, Nilofer ; Mohan, K. G. ; Singh, Kailash ; Full Text(PDF) Full Text(DjVu)
- Indian Plant Virus Database – a platform for showcasing research on plant viruses in India — Bhat, A. I. ; Martin, Agath ; John, Arun ; Isaac, Neethu ; Eapen, S. J. ; Full Text(PDF) Full Text(DjVu)
- Study of two xanthene dyes using spectrally resolved three-pulse photon echo spectroscopy — Kumar, Ajitesh ; Karthick Kumar, S. K. ; Singhal, Sumit ; Goswami, Debabrata ; Full Text(DjVu)