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 …
In an attempt to preserve stem cells for treating various diseases, including cancer, the state government along with Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose Cancer Research Institute, is going to set up a stem cell research centre at Nayabadh Mouja near the EM bypass. The initiative was taken after it was found …
Hasan Suroor LONDON: Robert Edwards, the British scientist whose pioneering research with his late colleague Patrick Steptoe led to the birth of the world's first
Singapore: More than a third of mammal species considered extinct or missing have been rediscovered, a study says, and a lot of effort is wasted in trying to find species that have no chance of being found again. Species face an accelerated rate of extinction because of pollution, climate change, …
London: For the first time, scientists claim to have identified the genes which decide human height. About 80% of normal variation in human height is said to be down to genetic factors. Now, an international team, led by Exeter University, has pinpointed hundreds of genetic mutations that account for about …
THE Indian tectonic plate smashed into Asia some 55 million years ago. A ripple of geological events followed, creating the Himalayan mountains and Tibetan plateau over 40 million years. Geologists could figure out how the highlands were formed, but disagree on the timeline of their formation. Evolutionary biologists from China …
In 2009, the world celebrated the 200th anniversary of the life and work of Charles Darwin, a transformational scientist who brought about a revolution in our understanding of evolution. Evolution through natural selection among living organisms leading to the survival of the fittest was a concept alien to the Christian …
Aarti Dhar NEW DELHI: Favouring replacement of animal dissections for experimentation in a phased manner with the acquisition of appropriate technology, an expert committee of the University Grants Commission(UGC) has suggested a reduction in the number of animals, and the kind of species used for dissection and experimentation, and said …
One way to bring closure to the trauma of the gas tragedy is to build Bhopal up as a site of cutting edge clean, green technology, with special focus on life sciences, says R Gopalakrishnan IT IS time we stopped viewing Bhopal only as a site of pain and of …
Many important hominid-bearing fossil localities in East Africa are in regions that are extremely hot and dry. Although humans are well adapted to such conditions, it has been inferred that East African environments were cooler or more wooded during the Pliocene and Pleistocene when this region was a central stage …
The world’s heaviest and largest dog was a Saint Bernard. Named Benedictine, it measured nearly 275 cms in length and weighed 162 kgs. The world’s smallest breed of dog is named after the state of Chihuahua in Mexico. The dogs look as nervous as their tiny stature might make them …
Washington: US scientists have developed the first cell controlled by a synthetic genome, in a breakthrough which may lead to creating bacteria to clean up environmental problems, a new study showed on Thursday.
In 1824, a group of people thronged the home of Oxford professor William Buckland. They reported to the professor the finding of a large jawbone from a quarry not far from his quarters at Oxford University. Buckland had by then acquired fame as a geologist with a keen knowledge of …
Flowering plants and insects share a pollen-and-nectar history that goes back a long way. According to fossil records most of the insect groups originated before flowering plants appeared, which is some 140 to 190 million years ago. This would be during the late Jurassic and early Cretaceous periods. Scientists at …
Gargi Parsai NEW DELHI: The Project Directorate on Poultry (PDP), Hyderabad, under the Indian Council for Agricultural Research (ICAR), has developed transgenic chicken for therapeutic purposes by transferring a gene from a different species into chicken. A team, led by senior scientist T.K. Bhattacharya, transferred the enhanced green fluorescent protein …
