Faking history

Most fossils, repositories of early life on Earth, may not be fossils at all. Existing evolutionary theories stand to lose ground

Why Angry with Vedanta?

The jury seems to have missed the dumping of fly ash by Vedanta in the Vansadhara River. It has also overlooked the sudden spurt in skin …

150 years of humanitarian action: peace in war

In 1863 Swiss entrepreneur Jean Henry Dunant mobilised statesmen, doctors and philanthropists to form the International Committee of the Red …

A dark tunnel

Twenty-nine workers were killed in a landslide at the Tehri dam. The contractor building the dam has blamed the "weak mountains" for …

Five Earth-like planets discovered by NASA

Simply Put: Earth Day 2024

Nobody can predict earthquakes, but we can forecast them; Here’s how

Earthquake forecasts are built on observations of past earthquake activity, which may stretch back decades, centuries or even thousands of years

Plans for deep seabed mining pit renewable energy demand against ocean life in a largely unexplored frontier

Less than 10% of the deep seabed has been mapped to understand its basic structure and contents

Three Indian cities among this year’s Earth Hour challenge finalists

The 2015 National Earth Hour Capital Awards will be presented in Seoul, South Korea, on April 9

Leap of imagination: how February 29 reminds us of our mysterious relationship with time and space

The Julian calendar had observed a leap year every four years, but this meant time had drifted out of alignment with the dates of celestial …

Earth sciences ministry’s revised budget estimate reduced by 22%, multiple delays cited as reasons

Ministry cited delays in procuring high-power computing devices, constructing a National Centre for Seismology building & acquiring land to …

Medieval descriptions of an 1114 CE quake in present-day Turkey and Syria feel eerily familiar

Even at a distance of 900 years, accounts of the 1114 earthquake reveal historical societies went about recording natural disasters in terms that …

New NASA project to map Earth’s forests in 3D

The maps will help researchers to find how much carbon is exactly stored in planet's forests

Agra’s petha is losing its sheen

People pay with jobs as government cracks down on petha-making units

Delhi and Istanbul-oceans apart

Unlike Delhi, Turkey’s largest city has been designed for people, not cars

Monsoon readies for departure

The withdrawal of south west Monsoon will begin this weekend from north-west India

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Forbidden country

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Bright idea

Catalysis breakthrough makes chemical production green

In censor’s web

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The enemy within

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