Use data on parliamentary constituencies to fight malnutrition: Harvard study

The focus on PCs can bring a greater degree of accountability to policy vision and implementation since lawmakers are directly responsible for …

Kumbh karma

It took a trip to Harvard for the Uttar Pradesh top brass to realize that back home their house was not in order

Scientist who called mysterious Oumuamua object alien probe explains why

Abraham Loeb, one of the Harvard scientists who came up with this theory, talks about this extraordinary conclusion and the media frenzy it generated

Scientists find supermassive black hole moving within host galaxy

It can be two black holes in the process of merging or one in a binary system of black holes

Harvard University accused of land grab & violation of indigenous people's rights: study

The university's endowment fund, meant to support educational and research goals, was misused to acquire 850,000 hectares of farmland across 5 …

The online answer to publishing industry tyranny

Academic research stands much to gain from open digital access

Global strategy needed to build new roads to minimise environmental damage: study

Researchers identify areas where new roads have most potential benefit, areas where road building should be avoided

Stubble burning: Focus on 6 Punjab districts, study by Harvard, MIT suggests

Stubble burning in India affecting other south Asian countries too; but most of the impact is within India, say US researchers

Delayed paddy plantation has cascading effect on north India’s air pollution: Harvard University

Delhi and other parts of the region can experience lesser pollution if certain districts of Punjab do not delay planting paddy, say researchers

Weight gain during pregnancy may help shorter women have healthy babies

UNICEF estimates that 8 million babies are born with low weight every year in India

First ‘direct evidence’ of Big Bang discovered

The discovery offers insight into some basic questions: Why do we exist? How did the universe begin?

Economic growth has done little to reduce child under-nutrition

Data taken from 121 health surveys and 36 countries has been analysed

‘The role of the state should be pragmatic, not ideological’

Calestous Juma is professor of Practice of International Development and faculty chair of Innovation for Economic Development Program at Harvard …

Lab-made stem cells provide breakthrough in type 1 diabetes cure

Insulin-producing pancreatic beta cells controlled blood sugar levels in mice for several months

Happily never after

Caste bar on marriages fuelling genetic disorders in India

Too much sun could make you a UV addict, raise cancer risk

Chronic exposure releases endorphins, causing desire to laze around in the sun, finds study

Global Burden of Disease ranks air pollution as a top killer

Killer outdoor air contributes to 1.2 million deaths in East Asia which is in throes of high level of economic growth and motorization and 712,…

US scientists engineer stem cells capable of killing cancer

cells killed cancer cells by secreting toxins, without harming healthy cells

Information cannot be leashed

The state and capital meet their match in digital technology

New genealogy project allows astronomers to trace ‘ancestors’

The database provides information on more than 33,000 astronomers, their advisors and universities and the links to their dissertations

Plastic makes little girls cranky

Research links bisphenol A, used in plastic bottles, with behavioural disorders in three-year-old girls

'South Asia, Africa show poor progress towards MDGs'

India fares worse than Bangladesh and Nepal, says report

Experts call for holistic approach to reproductive healthcare

Urge governments to give women free healthcare to reduce maternal mortality

Ban on stem cell patents which involve destroying human embryos

Researchers call it regressive step, ethicists happy