Opportunists among plants

Invasive species thrive by making the most of nutrition that comes in spurts

An ardent activist passes away

Spaced out waste

Space mirror "illumines" Europe by night

A Russian attempt to light up the night by using sunlight reflected from a huge space-based mirror failed to come up to expectations but could …

Look inside the whale

Scientists develop a method for studying the whales' stomach contents without killing them

Bytes

Government to boost scientific research

News Snippets

Clouds seeded with burning tyres

Two paragraphs too many

How To Sell A Wonder Herb

There is arogyapacha. A rare herb with extraordinary medicinal properties. There is the Kani tribe of Kerala. It has preserved the herb and the …

Caught in a haze

Indian scientists contest the UNEP report on the aerosol-caused Asian brown cloud

Rat chronicles

The tiny rodents that most people link only to pestilence and crop destruction have fascinated Ishwar Prakash -- one of that rare breed: a rat …

QED

Scientific proof that pesticides harm the human body

It's time India had a scientific ethics body

Feather touch conservationist

From permafrost microbes to survivor songbirds: Research projects are also victims of COVID-19

Ornithologists are committed to determining why North America lost 3 bln birds in last 50 years, and seamless records of individual birds’ …

बाइडन की जीत से वैज्ञानिकों ने कहा, बुरा सपना हुआ खत्म

दुनियाभर के वैज्ञानिकों ने अमेरिका के राष्ट्रपति के रूप में जो बाइडन के चुने जाने पर राहत की सांस ली है

Mangrove fungi that munches on polythene

Isolated from India’s West Coast, the fungi can potentially help degrade polythene

Brazilian climate scientist wins Volvo Environment Prize for work on Amazon

Nobre has raised concern over possible "savannisation" of the largest tropical forest in the world

Mosquito matters

The blood-sucking pest is altering itself with changing environment. But studies on it are few and far between

Reconstructing atmospheric history

Old paintings can provide information about the composition of the atmosphere of bygone ages. When a volcano erupted in Indonesia in 1815, …

Simulating real-life networks

India is a leader in IT. But how do researchers here apply the science to improve people’s lives? Malay Bhattacharyya, assistant professor …

Higgs hypothesis gathers mass

Scientists say the discovered particle is consistent with the sought-after Higgs boson

Beetle's taste for sunflowers alarms experts

Scientists fear the Mexican beetle, introduced to counter the adverse effects of a weed, may destroy the sunflower crop.