The battle of the genders intensifies as scientists discover that the differences begin, and perhaps end, at one of the human fundamentals: the brain
READ MORE 31 Aug 1995Can a cat be both dead and alive at the same time? If you believe the classic interpretation of quantum physics, it can. But several scientists …
READ MORE 15 Aug 1995The world over, the pockets where the poor live are used as environmental dumps. PAUL WAPNER debates the environmental ethics of International …
READ MORE 31 Jul 1995Once hailed as a boon to health, chlorine is now charged with being carcinogenic, maiming the immune and the reproductive systems.
READ MORE 31 Jul 1995Pauri Garwhal became ghost territory as villagers and the forest department virtually ignored unprecedented forest fires
READ MORE 15 Jul 1995Scientific fodder comes of age in today's era of specialisation and optimum use
READ MORE 15 Jul 1995European environmentalists tackle Third World concerns of irresponsible overconsumption by northern countries
READ MORE 15 Jul 1995Is it the soul? Is it the mind? Or is it something outside the confines of the human body? Author most elusive of mental phenomenon of consciousness
READ MORE 30 Jun 1995PLANET Earth would have been an utterly lifeless blob of space debris if it hadn't been for the water that covers 70 per cent of its surface. But …
READ MORE 30 Jun 1995It took almost 2 decades of squinting at the microverse to finally pin down, on March 2, an accomplished atomic escape artist, the top quark
READ MORE 15 Jun 1995The anachronistic, and explosive, colonial formula of exploiting forests by denying the forest people their rights is still being followed to the …
READ MORE 15 Jun 1995Nepal's controversial Arun III dam becomes the first World Bank-bankrolled project taken up for re-scrutiny by the Bank's new Inspection Panel …
READ MORE 31 May 1995The new Inspection Panel, whose first brief is Nepal's Arun III dam, is most certainly a radical step towards self-examination. It may cure …
READ MORE 31 May 1995One of the most lucrative pisciculture activities today, shrimp cultivation in India was recently given a devastating body blow by a mysterious …
READ MORE 15 May 1995Blind terror: 80 per cent of the world's sightless are in the developing world, and the number will double by the turn of the century. Carl …
READ MORE 15 May 1995Mind-body medicine: in the realm of the possible but wholly inexplicable, this loose curative system has more takers every day
READ MORE 30 Apr 1995Kerala finds its rivers drying up and beginning to die
READ MORE 30 Apr 1995How what you tuck into can pull you back from the brink of death
READ MORE 15 Apr 1995The trials run before introducing drugs into the market are peppered with death-inviting inaccuracies and even brazen lies
READ MORE 15 Apr 1995A timeless dream: eternal youth, unblemished by illness. The search for the font of immortality has taken a late 20th century turn into what …
READ MORE 31 Mar 1995Scientist R SUKUMAR of the Centre for Ecological Studies, Bangalore, says that DTE correspondent Anju Sharma was slipshod in her homework on elephants
READ MORE 31 Mar 1995The birth-pangs of development have been faced so far by the downtrodden, but things need to change soon
READ MORE 31 Mar 1995