Bharat Biotech COVID-19 vaccine claimed to have 80.6% efficacy
'Shot well tolerated in participants; adverse events balanced between vaccine and placebo arms of the trial'
Reversing food cycle
Processed and packaged food and sweetened beverages have become a part of our life. They have replaced traditional and fresh foods. Food companies,…
'They asked me to withdraw my court case'
P PARDHA SARADHI is tenacious. This mild-mannered professor at the Department of Environmental Studies at the University of Delhi (DU) has …
‘China growth model cannot be universal’
Wen Teijun, dean of Renim University in Beijing, has been documenting the world's agrarian history and turmoils. He initiated the New Rural …
‘Making TB a notifiable disease will benefit patients’
Tuberculosis kills around 1,000 people each day in India and more than two million people are affected by the bacterial disease. This makes India …
GM crop benefits are all in future
Nearly 40 years ago, Marc Van Montagu of Ghent University in Belgium, along with fellow researcher Jeff Schell, discovered that Agrobacterium …
'Most countries don’t want to recognise indigenous people as people'
Mohammed Taghi Farvar, former director of Avicenna University in Iran, is a well-known ecologist and social scientist. At present, he is the …
Desperately seeking skills & jobs
India has a youth bulge in its population, accounting for the largest number of young working age people in the world. This demographic …
How to contain Himalayan tsunamis
The Himalaya has one of the most fragile topographies among mountain ranges of the world on account of being the youngest. Even though its phase …
The panchayat outrage
It was a vote for self-governance, not self-determination. No panchayat election in the country ever created as much hype as that of Jammu and …
New genealogy project allows astronomers to trace ‘ancestors’
The database provides information on more than 33,000 astronomers, their advisors and universities and the links to their dissertations
Students win right to photocopy
Delhi University's course packs are not a copyright violation, says the court in a wide interpretation of the law
Eminent physicist Stephen Hawking dies at 76
Hawking theoretically proved that black holes were present as singularities in the cosmic space-time continuum
US scientists come up with equation to measure natural capital
They used the same economic principles used to value traditional assets to calculate the value of natural capital, but factored in changes in …
Climate change brings longer spring and autumn to US
Expanding growing season has enabled the forests to store an additional 26 million tonnes of carbon dioxide, say researchers
Why India should not reopen schools and colleges during COVID-19 pandemic
The Centre and state governments should refrain from doing so in the light of new studies highlighting COVID-19 cases among children
What’s in a name? Everything, if its botany
Taxonomists who can identify plant samples correctly are in great shortage, affecting research in applied sciences like biotechnology and genetics
Global Burden of Disease ranks air pollution as a top killer
Killer outdoor air contributes to 1.2 million deaths in East Asia which is in throes of high level of economic growth and motorization and 712,…
Air Pollution thwarting moths’ food-hunting abilities
Study underlines negative impacts of pollution, especially from vehicles, on agriculture
Medicines may be responsible for decline in wildlife population
Scientists urge for studies to estimate the environmental risks posed by pharmaceutical pollution
National Institutional Ranking Framework 2022: The grey side of it
Underrepresentation, unequal availability of opportunity for quality higher education plaguing India’s education system
Global warming increases carbon emissions from soil
Results of this study can help develop more accurate soil carbon and climate models, say researchers
New strategies needed for elimination of malaria: Experts
Conventionally less lethal malarial parasites are also taking up deadlier forms, they said
A fungus that can degrade endosulfan identified
The commonly used insecticide was used to get rid of insects in cashew plantations and exposure to it is reported to have led to several health …
Breakthrough in search for new malaria cure
Scientists find a way to block malaria parasite from making itself at home inside host blood cells; research opens up possibilities of new …