In this issue
p. 1016

Women, Science and the X-Chromosome
p. 1017 | Balaram, P.

Who wants biochemical engineers?
p. 1019 | Patnaik, P. R.

Ultrasound imaging: A boon or bane?
p. 1019 | Yalavarthy, Phaneendra K.

Mind, machine and the tsunami
p. 1020 | Raval, U.

Tsunami engineering study in India
p. 1020 | Mandal, S.

Relevance of mathematics to other branches of science
p. 1021 | Rajappa, S.; Chatterji, Dipankar; Balakrishnan, V.

Phytomining of gold
p. 1021 | Mohan, B. S.

Systems biology is all noise
p. 1022 | Dhar, Pawan Kumar

Ethics in science: On the selective suppression of inconvenient data
p. 1023 | Rajappa, S.

Future earthquakes and other natural hazards: Impact on people living in the Ganga basin
p. 1025 | Singh, Ramesh P.

Coastal water quality off Dakshina Kannada before and after tsunami
p. 1026 | Reddy, H. R. V.; Katti, R. J.; Raveesha, K. P.; Vikas, S. J.; Babu, R. S. Nagendra; Kumar, K. S. Shiva; Chandrashekara

Habitat heterogeneity of the Loktak lake, Manipur
p. 1027 | Sanjit, Laishangbam; Bhatt, Dinesh; Sharma, Romesh Kumar

Borlaug award for Dr S. Nagarajan
p. 1028

Recent advances in mycology
p. 1028 | Sridhar, K. R.

Recent trends in biotechnology
p. 1030 | De, Minakshi

Impact spherules: Tiny peepholes to earth's geological past
p. 1032 | Sankaran, A. V.

Scientific basis of knowledge on Earth's composition
p. 1034 | Herndon, J. Marvin

First oceanographic expedition to survey the impact of the Sumatra earthquake and the tsunami of 26 December 2004
p. 1038 | Murthy, K. S. R.

First record of late Palaeozoic Euramerian calamitalean foliage shoot Annularia Sternberg in the Late Early Permian (Barakar Formation) Glossopteris floral assemblage of Peninsular Indian Lower Gondwana
p. 1040 | Banerjee, Manju; Mitra, Samik; Dutta, Sutapa

Wisdom of Ayurveda in perceiving diabetes: Enigma of therapeutic recognition
p. 1043 | Tiwari, Ashok K.

Pattern of chronic diseases amongst adolescent obese children in developing countries
p. 1052 | Kaur, Supreet; Kapil, Umesh; Singh, Preeti

Dark energy: The cosmological challenge of the millennium
p. 1057 | Padmanabhan, T.

The physics of CMBR anisotropies
p. 1068 | Subramanian, Kandaswamy

Cosmological N-body simulation: Techniques, scope and status
p. 1088 | Bagla, J. S.

High redshift intergalactic medium: Probes and physical models
p. 1117 | Sethi, Shiv K.

Accelerating universes in string theory
p. 1125 | Trivedi, Sandip P.

Cratering and spall simulation of Pokhran-1 event with three-dimensional transient finite element analysis
p. 1133 | Ranjan, Rajeev; Singh, R. K.; Sikka, S. K.; Kakodkar, Anil

Antenna beam tilting effects in fixed and mobile communication links
p. 1142 | Prasad, M. V. S. N.; Gupta, M. M.; Sarkar, S. K.; Ahmad, Iqbal

Incidence of loose shell syndrome disease of the shrimp Penaeus monodon and its impact in the grow-out culture
p. 1148 | Gopalakrishnan, A.; Parida, Ajay

On the gravitational deflection of light and particles
p. 1155 | Unnikrishnan, C. S.

Preparation and characterization of magnesium ion conducting glass-polymer composite films
p. 1159 | Kushwaha, S. S. S.; Mishra, J.

Polyethersulfone supported titanium complexes as ethylene polymerization catalysts
p. 1162 | Gupta, Virendrakumar; Vinod, C. P.; Kulkarni, G. U.; Lahiri, Goutam K.; Maity, Niladri; Bhaduri, Sumit

Cloning of synthetic VP2 gene of infectious bursal disease virus in a mammalian expression vector and its use as DNA vaccine in chicken
p. 1164 | Chauhan, S.; Rai, A.; Rai, N.; Dighe, N.; Roy, B.; Gupta, P. K.

Isolation and characterization of a mouse embryonic stem cell line that contributes efficiently to the germ line
p. 1167 | Alex, Jomini Liza; Sarathi, D. Partha; Goel, Sandeep; Kumar, Satish

Age-dependent pollen abortion in cashew
p. 1169 | Bhattacharya, Ashoke

Basement structure of Godavari basin, India - Geophysical modelling
p. 1172 | Sarma, B. S. P.; Rao, M. V. R. Krishna

Maritime heritage in and around Chilika Lake, Orissa: Geological evidences for its decline
p. 1175 | Tripati, Sila; Vor, K. H.

A Machine to Make a Future: Biotech Chronicles by Paul Rabinow and Talia Dan-Cohen
p. 1182 | Rajagopalan, Rukmini

Volcanoes in Human History by Jelle Zeilinga de Boer and Donald Theodore Sanders
p. 1183 | Rajendran, C. P.

S. Kedharnath (1921-2004)
p. 1185 | Subramanian, C. V.

Einstein and the Indian minds: Tagore, Gandhi and Nehru
p. 1187 | Sorkhabi, Rasoul

POORNAPRAJNA INSTITUTE OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH
p. 1192

UNIVERSITY OF MYSORE
p. 1193

RAJIV GANDHI CENTRE FOR BIOTECHNOLOGY
p. 1194

DEPARTMENT OF BIOTECHNOLOGY
p. 1195

Careers in Science Editing
p. 1196

Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering
p. 1196

SARDAR PATEL UNIVERSITY, P. G. DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS
p. 1197

Centre for Materials for Electronics Technology
p. 1197

BOSE INSTITUTE
p. 1198

Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science Programme
p. 1198

G. B. Pant Institute of Himalayan Environment and Development
p. 1199

The KETS's V. G. Vaze College of Arts, Science and Commerce
p. 1199

Indian National Science Academy
p. 1200

DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES Manipur University
p. 1200

DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES SOPHIA COLLEGE, MUMBAI
p. 1200