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

World biodiversity day this year focuses on islands

In the last 500 years around 80 per cent of vertebrate extinctions have been on islands

Extinction Rebellion needs to build solidarity and work on its race problem

But it shouldn't be on a government watch list

Houthi rebel Red Sea attacks, threat of escalation, supply chain chaos are a major headache — and not just for the west

Airstrikes entail further risks of regional escalation, drawing other countries in the region, such as Iran and Saudi Arabia, into the conflict &…

Chandrayaan-3: Science on the political agenda

While science is always definitive, its use is a political decision

Heatwaves in Europe, North America ‘virtually impossible’ without anthropogenic emissions: WWA

The heat event in China was made 50 times more likely by human-induced climate change

Gorgosaurus: Sotheby’s all set to auction T-Rex’s cousin

Get out, Bolsonaro: Amazonian activists protest Brazil leader’s meeting with Biden

Both leaders are meeting at the ongoing Summit of the Americas in Los Angeles

Bumper production, reduced import duty may hurt lentil farmers

There was no immediate inflation pressure on pulses for import duty cut

Wind power capacity needs to grow at thrice the current speed to reach net zero: Report

The world needs to instal a minimum of 180 GW of new wind energy capacity every year

COVID-19: Medical experts, civil society slam Trump’s move to cut WHO funding

Whatever the UN body’s faults, now not the time for such an action, they say

Coronavirus update: 2nd death in India in west Delhi

Bolsonaro's test results awaited

Amid COVID-19 outbreak, India imports record LNG

The pandemic has led to a reduction in demand for crude globally

Are enough kits for coronavirus sampling available with NIV?

Global tally of cases crosses 6,000-mark, 132 dead

Denmark’s new climate law could potentially be world-leading but does not go far enough

While a crucial step, the law does not reform the Nordic model of consumption

Typical US

Anyone but US is the problem

US govt data shows 62% of pregnant black women not vaccinated for flu, pertussis

Low trust levels among black adults for vaccines, doctors

Can glare be a roadblock in solar power expansion?

US authorities in Belmont have issued guidelines to manage solar glare

6.7 earthquake hits Northeast, claims lives

The state government is yet to assess the status of the hydropower projects in Manipur

Powerful strings

Muscles of polythene, nylon strings open new possibilities