A bad example from the US

A public sector technology transfer bill focuses exclusively on patenting

Grains of culture

Why China lost out to Europe in industrialisation

The India effect

The US is targeting India's patent law because it is inspiring other countries to follow suit

A great panic

Overextended banks crashing, leading to recession. 1873 revisited

Blood on the Internet

Governments are censoring digital content on the ground that it infringes intellectual ­property rights or offends people. Can they be stopped?

अपने आप में बदलाव कर ज्यादा स्थिर होने की कोशिश कर रहा है कोरोनावायरस: रिसर्च

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2020 में दर्ज किया गया इतिहास का दूसरा सबसे गर्म मार्च

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Wait and watch

The US government is in transition. But why should the rest of the world suffer?

US energy secretary supports Paris Agreement, wants to renegotiate terms

Rick Perry has not elaborated on what “renegotiate” meant in terms of the Paris Agreement

Poison on the plate

Study links toxins in food products to cancer and other diseases in children

California drought: valleys sinking faster than ‘ever before’

Increased subsidence in fifth consecutive year of drought can damage surface and underground infrastructure 

Fish take oil spills to heart

2010 oil spill in Gulf of Mexico may have caused heart defects in tuna species, reducing their numbers

India to confront Monsanto in US

Biodiversity Authority will oppose Monsanto’s patent application involving Indian melon

Save nature, do nothing

In some cases, doing nothing is the way to preserve ecology

Maybe it’s ALIVE

Keeping plucked vegetables and fruits in daylight helps them stay alert, produce nutrients

Count fish before catch

Identify the weakest link in ecosystem-based management

Hard time for honeybees

Entomologist May Berenbaum of University of Illinois in USA has inspired a character in TV series, X-Files. The winner of this year’s Tyler …

Another leak

Wikileaks>> Nuclear deal • New Zealand/India/US

It's official now

News Snippets

Gay by mercury

Water contamination may alter white ibises’ hormones

Trade war over green energy

Japan v Canada; US v China

Dow subsidiary blacklisted

It bribed Indian officials to get approval for pesticides

Wake-up call

A fungus could wipe out American bats

Caspian tigers may not be extinct