Harnessing wind

Post offices sell wind

Combusting hydrogen

Fight back

Plankton Power

Managing floods

Flood Management adds to the problem

Long distance travellers

Air pollutants ride the currents over long distances

A warmer and greener Arctic

Shrubs are found growing higher up in the Alaskan Arctic

Education Minister Satyapal Singh derides Darwin's Theory of Evolution

Singh suggested that the theory of evolution be modified in school and college curricula

India gassed

Climate changes induced by increasing concentration of greenhouse gases could adversely affect the country's crop yields

Unassuming bodyguards

Altering the structure of peptides can fashion them into loyal and hard-to-beat soldiers of the body's immune syustem

Molecular games

First there was the buckminster fullerene molecule, shaped like a football. Now, scientists have produced a tennis ball look-alike

The fruits of confusion

An Australian shrub has leaves that mimic its fruit to fool the voracious white-tailed black cockatoo

Jaldi dhan will transform drought-hit regions

New varieties of rice that mature in just about two months, can prove to be a boon for marginal farmers in drought-prone areas of India.

Monthly madness

A group of American psychiatrists have proclaimed that some women suffer from a mental illness that usually begins a week before their menstrual …

Preserving for posterity

A group of scientists is attempting to collect and store genetic material from various tribes on the verge of extinction in an effort to preserve …

Sudden jump in infant cancer cases

Doctors are finding it difficult to cope with the increasing incidence of thyroid cancer among children -- innocent victims of radioactivity.

Tilted in North's favour

A geological explanation as to why the South pays with a hole over the Antarctic for the North's misdemeanours

Self-purification

The world's biggest fresh water system, the Great Lakes, straddling Canada and the United States, are cleansing themselves of pollutants

Bytes

Irrigation can't stave off global warming

A cakewalk

Pressmud, a byproduct of the sugar industry, is a potential source of soil nutrients and wax

Yellow metal can fight cancer

Scientists say palm trees can predict climate change

Simulation helps enhance photosynthesis