Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item titled "Nayar river is vanishing - a yatra reveals conservation goes beyond science and policy" appearing in ‘The Down To Earth’ dated 03.06.2025. The original application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled "Nayar …
Scientists Are Trying To Enable Humanity’s First Encounter With Alien Life Right Here On Earth San Diego: In a laboratory perched on the edge of the continent, researchers are trying to construct ‘Life As We Don’t Know It’ in a thimbleful of liquid. Generations of scientists and science fiction fans …
Regulators must look past visceral disgust about human–animal hybrids. Strict but sensible rules are needed for research on hybrid embryos and chimaeric animals that could produce therapies. (Editorial) http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v475/n7357/full/475423a.html
The time is right, says Martin Bobrow, to improve the governance of research involving animals that contain human genetic or cellular material. http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v475/n7357/full/475448a.html
Regenerative medicine crossed another milestone this week when scientists at the University of Lund in Sweden demonstrated the direct conversion of skin tissue cells into nerve cells. So far, the standard technique in this field has been to convert adult cells (usually from the skin) into stem cells, and then …
EARLY humans arrived in India from Africa more than a million years ago, indicate newly discovered stone tools. The discovery overturns the earlier assumption that our ancestors reached India about half a million years ago. A research team led by Shanti Pappu of non-profit Sharma Centre for Heritage Education in …
THEY entered the US from Argentina in the 1930s armed with lethal venom, gained a foothold in southern parts of the country and then marched to invade faraway countries across the world. Such is the invasion strategy of Red Imported Fire Ant, or Solenopsis invicta, one of the world’s highly …
Scientists of the University of Delhi, in a collaborative programme involving researchers from other leading institutions in the country, have rediscovered five species of frogs believed extinct long ago. Chalazodes Bubble-nest Frog ( Raorchestes chalazodes), was last reported in 1874 from the Kalakkad-Mundanthurai region in the western ghats in south …
Scientists claim to have discovered a strain of bacteria that seems to be able to grow on arsenic, a well-known poison. SCIENTISTS have always believed that phosphorus is essential to life. But a recent finding, which was reported in Science Express, the early online version of the reputed journal Science, …
A Singapore consortium led by the Institute of Materials Research and Engineering (IMRE) is mimicking nature to produce a new chemical-free, anti-bacteria plastic
The use of rare and endangered species in science laboratories at most schools will henceforth be prohibited. The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has asked all affiliated schools to discontinue the use of rare species, dead or alive, in their science laboratories. After receiving a complaint from the director …
Call it a DNA digital Dewey Decimal System for all life on Earth. Every species, from extinct to thriving, is set to get its own DNA barcode in an attempt to better track the ones that are endangered, as well as those being shipped across international borders as food or …
London: In a breakthrough which could pave the way for customised transplant organs for patients, scientists claim to have successfully grown miniature human livers in the laboratory. An international team, led by Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine in North Carolina in the US, created working livers the size of …
American scientists claim to have found evidence that suggests Mars had a warm and wet climate which could have supported life some 3.5 billion years ago. A team led by planetary geologists at Brown University found mounds of a mineral deposited on a volcanic cone less than 3.5 billion years …
OUR understanding of evolution has increased manifolds in the last 150 years, but more needs to be done to demystify the concept. While evolutionary biologists agree with Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution, they also say that ecological diversity is driven by expansion and contraction of occupied niches, rather than by …
