Regulation faces a hurdle

What has improved engine technology to do with it?

Test drive to Mars

India’s first inter-planetary flight is now well on its way. Once the satellite orbits the Red Planet, the country will become the fourth …

Environet

This column will bring you an update on various groups and individuals working in fields related to environment, development and the sciences. …

Pollution and plants

Ecologists reveal that trees are precise indicators of environmental health, as they show specific symptoms with an increase in air pollution

Untangling India’s Bt cotton fraud

ICAR’s top research institutes and GEAC exposed in Bt cotton research scam

A tsunami of questions

Choking research

Mismanagement in India's premier forestry research institute

Small in size, big problem

Nanoparticles, as tiny as a billionth of a metre, pose a challenge to scientists and regulatory authorities alike. It may also be a huge health …

Rice fields as carbon sinks

A study by Indian scientists finds lowland flooded rice ecosystems can store vast amounts of carbon but the jury is still out on whether these …

MONEYMAKERS

Why experts want GM freeze

Say regulatory system has grave deficiencies; challenge agriculture ministry’s claims

Passive neighbour

India remains indifferent as China builds dams on upper reaches of Brahmaputra  

Problem

Science & Technology - Bytes

Indian scientists: missing in action

Scientifically invalid

Inter-Academy update on GM crops does little to redeem Indian science

Geopolitics

By another name?

More like a ritual

So much for scope and research scale

One hot day in June

India woke up to a phone call

"The ice"

That's what Antarctica is called

Plastic Peril

Waste management is key to keeping the oceans free of plastic waste, new research suggests

US drug authority rejects plea to ban antibiotics in animal feed

Claims withdrawal process expensive and resource intensive

Shrouded in controversy

A mountaineering expedition into the Nanda Devi Biosphere Reserve revives the debate on ecotourism and people's rights over forests.

A plant breeder comes into his own

Awards are finally coming to K Vinod Prabhu, 54, a plant breeder, for his work on building resistance in wheat, mustard and rice through the …