Unbearable

Zoo>> Cruelty To Animals • Iran

It’s all greenwash

Eco-friendly products, services are nothing but excellent marketing strategies

Gory conservation

Assam debates dehorning rhinos without proper studies

Potato shield for bamboo

Coatings of potato starch can protect bamboo shoots from microbes and browning

Back to print

Magazine>> Revival • USA

Shutter bugs

Irresponsible wildlife photography runs counter to conservation

Faster and sharper

Peptide-based biosensor can detect food contamination by Salmonella in minutes

Not-so-organic fests

Literature fests have spread all over the subcontinent, like an epidemic

Parasite to control locust

A parasite found in locust hindgut inhibits its ability to swarm

Changing paradigm

Soil’s carbon storing ability may be different from what is believed

Cosmic dance

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A touch of powder

Maharashtrians spice up their simple meals with dry oilseed chutney

Tree coagulants

Why trees don’t bleed to death on being injured

Plastic money

Roadshow>> Currency Note • UK

Sizing up trees

A safer, cheaper device to measure tree circumference

Trolls whipped, really?

Twitter>> Abusive Talk • UK

Nano fix

Autoclave uses nanoparticles, sunlight to sterilise hospital equipment

An app beats court

APP>> Gay Rights • Russia/USA

You’ve got an SMS

Mobile>> Weather Forecast • Thailand

Beyond stoned

Feeding frenzy

14 fly species and 18 species of wasps found living in a single tropical flower, feeding on each other

Assam and its notion of nationhood

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One dollar, one language, one world

Ram Chandra Biswas rode 627,500 km on a humble bicycle and witnessed the world change, warmth giving way to suspicion. Sayantan Bera catches up …

Induced fertility

Study shows way to treat primary ovarian insufficiency, one of the disorders responsible for infertility

Malaria cases rise in Valsad

Gujarat health department confused why efforts to curb the disease have not yielded result