The frequency of short-duration, heavy rainfall events over central India and long-duration heavy rainfall events over the north-western coasts of the country has risen considerably in the last few decades.
Israeli scientists have developed a DNA nanocomputer which could roam the human bloodstream, fixing disease on the spot.
Human and rat cells, when exposed to radiation at a frequency that is used in cell phones, the radiation began to switch on a chemical signal inside the cells within 10 minutes.
India-born Nobel laureate Sir Venkatraman Ramakrishnan has been confirmed as president elect of Britain's prestigious Royal Society.
Three molecular chemists -- Martin Karplus, Michael Levitt and Arieh Warshel -- were on Wednesday awarded the 2013 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for devising computer simulations that are used to understand and predict chemical processes.