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 …
CHENNAI: Three new species of bacteria, which are not found on the earth and are highly resistant to ultraviolet radiation, have been discovered in the upper stratosphere (more than 15 km above the earth) by Indian scientists, according to the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO). While one of the species …
Sharmila Krishna | Lucknow Former Vice-Chancellor of Kanpur University Sarvagya Singh Katiyar, who has been honoured by the Padma Bhushan (in Science and Engineering), is perhaps the first scientist to make it to the list from the state in the past 20 years. And not without reason. The senior scientist …
Agencies Houston An Indian-American professor has been honoured with the 2009 Edith and Peter O'Donnell Award by The Academy of Medicine, Engineering and Science of Texas for his research that could lead to the creation of artificial proteins in the human body. Dr Rama Ranganathan, Director of the Systems Biology …
The axolotl, a salamander that retains unique evolutionary features and is a darling of biologists because it can regenerate limbs, faces adversity on two fronts.
Amoeba-Like Organism Engulfed A Bacterium That Developed Power To Use Sunlight And Liberate Oxygen Jonathan Leake Scientists have identified the single chance encounter about 1.9billion years ago to which almost all life on earth owes its existence. It saw an amoeba-like organism engulf a bacterium that had developed the power …
PATENTLY ABSURD Latha Jishnu / New Delhi September 17, 2008, 3:35 IST There was groundbreaking news from Japan five days ago. Scientists from Kyoto University were awarded a patent for their discovery on how to produce stem cells from skin, the first stem cell patent granted in Japan. The special …
Syed Akbar IN A major ecological exercise a team of scientists at the National Institute of Oceanography, Goa, has successfully produced seahorses in captivity. The success of NIO
The germs that help cattle eat grass and gorillas gorge on leaves may have been the secret weapon that let mammals populate the planet, researchers reported on Thursday. Two separate teams of researchers reported on the bacteria living in and on the bodies of humans and other animals, and found …
Scientists have discovered the tracks of a herd of 11 long-necked sauropods walking along a coastal mudflat in what is now the Republic of Yemen, the first discovery of dinosaur footprints on the Arabian peninsula. Sauropods, the largest land animals in earth's history, walked on four stout legs and ate …
While global warming is expected to be strongest at the poles, it may be an even greater threat to species living in the tropics, scientists say. Tropical species are accustomed to living in a small temperature range and thus may be unable to cope with changes of even a few …
A new study has claimed that lack of a heatgenerating tissue may have contributed to the extinction of dinosaurs. A team of researchers at New York Medical College came to the conclusion after discovering why birds, unlike mammals, lack a tissue that is specialised to generate heat, the
Dutch ecologist Roxina Soler and her colleagues have discovered that subterranean and aboveground herbivorous insects can communicate with each other by using plants as telephones. Subterranean insects issue chemical warning signals via the leaves of the plant. This way, aboveground insects are alerted that the plant is already '
Two computer screens display images of the first edition copy of Charles Darwin's "On the origin of species" in London on Thursday. About 90,000 pages of manuscripts, field notes, photographs, and sketches connected with Charles Darwin are being placed online, where they can be viewed free. Among the gems are …
Scientists with the European Space Agency have shown that plants and flowers can be grown on the Moon by demonstrating that marigolds can grow in crushed rock very much like the lunar surface, with no need for plant food. According to a report by BBC News, the new research was …
