Glacial melting assumes huge proportions

US to piggyback on Indian lunar mission

Cellular system to silence genes found

Bird flu resurfaces, exposes weakness of testing system

Coal-based power plants caus haze over Indo-Gangetic plains

Quake-hit areas of Pakistan threatened by landslide

Biofuel is efficient but its environmental benefits are marginal

A new study says that river-linking will affect monsoons in the country

Expert committee set for Mullaperiyar dam

But will it be effective against the huge number of strains found in India?

Irish study gives the green signal

New study stresses air currents within clouds are crucial

How fields of different GM crops are spaced may be crucial to their survival,

Tamarind paste, mud burial or klih : these preserved manuscripts

Reduced Himalayan snow cover affects marine life in the Arabian Sea

Rs 25 crore water park in Kerala's Kannur district

Significant ozone depletion

Will cannabis be rethought fit for medical use?

The Asian giant unravels the most extensive genetic mapping of the silkworm

Gold and silver nanoparticles remove pesticides from water

Debris, into Karnaprayag

Grassroots innovations are often better than high-tech equipments, shows a new geyser

Unique method to conserve endangered fish stocks

Nanotechnology has immense potential, but it is also a little-known area with many dangers

Biological process to extract minerals from ocean mineral lumps

Kerala plans to use water hyacinth to manufacture an important industrial enzyme

Mango crop runs into rough weather

Antarctic microbes could be rampantly exploited to benefit a few

It's time something was done about the lack of Braille texts in India

despite its genome sequenced three years ago, the cholera bacterium continues to dodge all efforts aimed at combating its menace. Now, scientists from the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Diseases Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b), have found out how Vibrio cholerae, the bacterium, renders the 'medicinal ammunition' futile

The world's powers celebrated Christmas 2003 in style: they sent robotic geologists to the red planet Mars, Earth's uninviting and hostile neighbour. Two major space-faring powers, the European Union and the US, extended their race for space supremacy to Mars with their spacecraft landing on the planet within 10 days of each other

Thirty years after they were abandoned for good, nuclear reactors are making a fatal comeback in the US spacecrafts. In 2003, the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) was notified about a federal commitment of US $3 billion to develop nuclear-fuelled engines in the next five years. The sum is three times more than what was promised previously. Appallingly, the Bush administration's decision to broaden the nation's nuclear-powered rocket programme, called Project Prometheus, came soon after the 2003 Columbia space shuttle mishap

Will biodiversity hotspots such as the Himalaya become hunting grounds of the notorious mining industry? This concern has been raised by experts in the wake of research advocating that the probability of finding large quantities of sulphide ores of metallic elements, such as zinc and gold, is higher in the mountain layers than the seafloors. Over-exploitation has led to a significant depletion of the underground ore stock. Therefore, miners are seeking new sources -- mountains and oceans...

In today's information world, bits of data are processed by semiconductor chips, but stored in magnetic disc drives. Limitations of this technology have made the world of electronics anxiously wait for a device that can transmit as well as store information. Now, researchers at the Sweden-based Royal Institute of Technology have made a 'spintronic ferromagnetic material', which displays both magnetic and semi-conducting properties, and functions at room temperature. The material would be ideal to make the device that transmits and stores data

Debris flow is a natural occurence. Environment-friendly town-planning can reduce its impact on human settlements

Ironically, the upgrade involves a technology that is being discarded worldwide due to its poor safety record and complicated processes

Mosquito coils are finally in the dock, after a prolonged deference. Two independent studies indicate that coils commonly used in Asian countries, including India, can be disastrous for human health

With the southeastern parts of Bangladesh experiencing a number of mild-to-moderate tremors since July 27, it is feared that a major earthquake is set to rock the region in the near future

Meet the only Indian scientist to have visited the South Pole

An agricultural scientist discovers why some rotis are tastier than others

Archaeology is the science that studies the remains of past cultures by investigating and analysing the objects people leave behind. It is a serious attempt to record and understand the past. As an area of study, it demands much from other science and social science disciplines. While geology or history might help the archaeologist to understand the significance of a find, disciplines such as chemistry, botany and zoology provide vital clues about its age, milieu and environment. In some cases, archaeology rewrites the history too!

In overhauling the wildlife act, MEF could ride roughshod over people's rights

A bacterium in optical communications

Controversy erupts as samples for study on genetic mutations are sent outside India without approval