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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Speeding up research
The world wide web has a huge resource of information available to tap. But precisely because of its size, it is also extremely hard to search for the relevant information. Now scientists have found
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Enigma unexplored
FROM Jawaharlal Nehru's evocative 'temples of modern India' dedication to the grotesque jubilation following Pokhran II, science has always played an important role in the way independent India has
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Rat chronicles
The tiny rodents that most people link only to pestilence and crop destruction have fascinated Ishwar Prakash one of that rare breed: a rat expert in India for most of his life
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Bacteria fossils or mere rock?
A team of British scientists analysed what has generally been accepted as the world's oldest fossils of bacteria, embedded in 3.5-billion-year-old rocks from western Australia, and they concluded
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Amid doubts
Stem cell research may not be the answer to human health problems
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Alien like
Scientists discover organisms similar to those that might be existing on other planets
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Self healing
Scientists develop a plastic that can repair itself when heated
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Deforestation accelerating
Rates of forest destruction in the Brazilian Amazon have accelerated over the last decade, according to a latest research done by a team of Brazilian and US scientists. The team analysed
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Look inside the whale
Scientists develop a method for studying the whales stomach contents without killing them
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Manipulating Research
Private funding has given a new meaning to scientific research today. With rising corporate research budgets, academic institutions are leaning more on industry sponsorship and less on government or charitable foundations. A major fallout of this alliance