Mercury is now traceable

Energy matters

Quality of light influences stomatal movement

Detective poles

Magnets to check fat content of milk, adulterated oil

The sun burns in a lab

Scientists strike atoms with impossibly high energy levels  

Project nose

A mission to prevent mosquitoes from smelling out humans

Birds are losing their voice

A new Word for Microsoft

Spills and omissions

Copyright legacy of the great

Mahatma Gandhi’s works have been available freely thanks to his copyright philosophy, but not those of Martin Luther King Jr

US is finally trying to rein in drug giants

Biden government’s push to get Big Pharma to reduce the astronomical rates of prescription medicines is significant

How do Indian states perform as far as hunger eradication is concerned

Using Global Hunger Index methodology to rank India’s states and Union Territories puts Bihar, Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh at the bottom, …

Biden wins – experts on what it means for race relations, US foreign policy and the Supreme Court

Three scholars discuss what a Biden presidency may have in store in three key areas: race, the Supreme Court and foreign policy

Civil society calls on govts to reject WTO e-commerce talks

Some WTO members announce new talks, which were rejected by the membership at the last Ministerial, at the WEF

India has 2nd-highest number of diabetes diagnostic centres globally, new study finds

Currently, 537 million adults globally are living with diabetes, with three in four of them living in low- and middle-income countries

Like ‘the tolling of a distant temple bell’, Ibuse Masuji’s Black Rain remembers the horrors of Hiroshima

Black Rain records the scorching memories of the hibakusha — atomic bomb survivors — of the bombing and its aftermath

What is ‘heat dome’, the phenomenon causing record temperatures across US?

‘Heat domes’ have also been associated with unusually warm periods in India, Bangladesh, China and some other Asian countries

Pharma’s dirty deals to stall generics

As generic companies, including Indian firms, collude with innovator pharma giants in pay-for-delay pacts, consumers pay a high price

Planetary summer: Why Europe may have reached a point of no return on prolonged droughts, heatwaves

Droughts are becoming a new reality for Europe, latest scientific projections suggest 

Inflation Reduction Act: Experts cautious as US Senate passes landmark climate investment bill

Bill still does not go far enough to meet the scale of climate emergency; the nature of investment is not known at the moment, they say

86 European, US children down with severe hepatitis; experts perplexed

Some have cited COVID-19 as a reason; some two years of it, while the rest have blamed the adenovirus

Russia-Ukraine war to have ‘ripple effects’ on India’s fuel prices: Experts

India should take this as a market signal and channel investments into electric vehicles and green hydrogen, which are substitutes for oil and gas,…

Cover, quality of severe depression treatment low globally: Study

Nearly 75 per cent of those diagnosed with MDD across the globe live in low and lower-middle income countries

Just what is the hoopla around 5G and aviation troubles in the US about

Major US airlines were forced to write a letter to federal authorities recently after disruption to flight schedules due to 5G technology

Kenya takes over the presidency of the UN Security Council, but must work hard to influence the agenda

The presidency of the Council affords Kenya some, albeit limited, scope to shape the Council’s agenda

Human activity is slowly killing the world’s rivers, study illustrates

The chemical composition of major rivers such as Yangtze, Amazon, Mississippi and Congo have been altered