Breaking the rural barrier

The Centre for Application of Science and Technology to Rural Areas, set up in 1974, was a bold effort at bringing appropriate technology to the …

Scientists in the fields

Farmers in South Andamans benefit with guidance from the Central Agricultural Research Institute

Experimental protests in the lab

A week of unprecedented protests by the employees of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research indicates the deep discontent among India'…

A question of leadership

The issue of leadership and management of R&D institutions proves to be a stumbling block in making such bodies more productive.

Rao wants more opportunities for young talent

Twenty-five scientists met the Prime Minister recently and appraised him of the issues confronting scientific research in India

Skeleton Lake

What happens when ice melts in the Roopkund tarn?

Quake causes rift among seismologists

Seismologists may not agree on what caused the earthquake, but their views have made the government take up better seismic monitoring and analysis.

Countdown to self-reliance

Indian space scientists have been forced on the indigenisation track to launch communications satellites

Lilliputians

Scientists claim to have discovered the smallest life forms. But are they alive?

The seabirds have flown

At the North Pole

The world of french fries and potato salad

The potato, native to South America, invaded England in 1588, the year Elizabeth I's devil-may-care sea-dogs vanquished the Spanish Armada. It …

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

Lab's labour lost

Products designed by premier scientific institutions fail to find the pulse of the market

Astronomy's orginal rebel

Electric cattle

Bullock-powered pump to tide over farmersÔÇÖ electricity woes

Making science of mumbo-jumbo

Scientists compile India's ethnic knowledge. They find a veritable gold-mine

Why are we all falling ill

The pursuit of unsustainable economic growth, bad development policy, lack of good science, and poverty are a prescription for ill-health. These …

Proposed IPR law raises concerns

Science congress is a jamboree