An audacity of hope

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

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

‘The Persian Gulf is a sensitive issue in Iran’

Amir Masoud Aghababaeian is an Iranian film-maker, originally from Isfahan and based in Tehran. He is the director of ‘Mermaid’, a …

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

Beluga whale spotted in September, still in the Thames

The marine mammal is spending its time in Gravesend, near the river mouth  

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

World is not doing enough to end hunger by 2030: UN

Food inflation on unprecedented rise triggered by COVID-19 pandemic, Russia-Ukraine war  

Intellectual Property: Why is India silent, as a compromise deal on COVID-19 therapies is worked out

The fact is, Indian and South African interests have diverged; India is not in desperate need of vaccines anymore and hence does not want to …

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

New WHO report highlights collaborative action to reduce antimicrobial resistance

Strategic framework designed by the four organisations to advance a One Health response to AMR  

Some good news for beleaguered Vaquita and Sumatran Rhino

While the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has upheld a preliminary ban on Mexican seafood imports to save the Vaquita, the first wild …

Pollution in cities damaging insects and ecosystems: study

Research reveals plants and insects exposed to high levels of nitrogen dioxide–a major component of smog–produce more defensive …

Trophy hunters take aim at Yellowstone’s Grizzly Bears

Last summer, the Trump administration removed the bears off the Endangered Species Act list of threatened species, paving the way for states to …

India’s very own Dust Bowl

Rising temperatures, changing weather patterns, depleting groundwater, unsustainable agriculture and deforestation are turning large parts of …