To save the planet, first save elephants
Wiping out all of Africa’s elephants could accelerate Earth’s climate crisis by allowing 7% more damaging greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, scientists say. But conserving forest elephants may reverse
Scientists
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Snooping on the rain
Indian scientists have embarked on the final leg of an ambitious voyage to unravel the mysteries of the monsoon
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Taste of waste
How to make plants yield salt
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Parmjit Singh Sehra
Meet the only Indian scientist to have visited the South Pole
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The cold rush
What has India got to show after 20 years on the Antarctica research bandwagon? Lack of focus
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Paperless news
Scientists in the us have developed an ultra thin electronic display that could well transform into an e newspaper. The black and white display is constructed from steel foil and is less than 0.3 millimetres thick. It can be viewed from most angles and ca
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Kalpana Chawla A mission become impossible
In all the media hype, the legacy left behind by the Columbia STS 107 crew was almost forgotten a wealth of information gathered from more than 80 experiments
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Sound judgement for whales
A us federal judge has blocked scientists from carrying out trials of newly developed sonar on migrating grey whales. The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and Scientific Solutions Inc. had
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Mouse make up
Mice are genetically similar to humans
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Bureaucratic coup
Administrative officers wrest control of the environment ministry, relegating scientists to the sidelines
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Real laureates
This year s Nobel prizes are truly grounded in practicality