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 …
Fish antics Two US-based Johns Hopkins University researchers have found answers to how the brain guides the complex movement of limbs in a tropical fish. Their research may contribute to important medical advances in humans, including better prosthetic limbs and improved rehabilitative techniques for people suffering from strokes, cerebral palsy …
birth and death of stars has intrigued scientists all along. A recent study has dispelled the notion that massive stars die with violent accompaniments such as bursts of light and ejection of chemicals (also called supernova explosion). Astronomers have stumbled upon a class of such stars that die silently. On …
Breaking an 11-month-long impasse, Colombia has resumed spraying of the herbicide glyphosate along parts of its border with Ecuador. The move is aimed at destroying illegal coca crops. Coca is used to make cocaine. The aerial fumigation has, however, sparked tension between the two countries. Ecuador says the fumigants are …
hazy skies on early Earth could have provided a substantial source of organic material useful for emerging life on the planet. In a study published in the Proceedings for the National Academy of Sciences (Vol 103, No 48), a research team of the University of Colorado at Boulder measured organic …
A hole in the roof, a bathroom full of debris and a strange, silvery rock near the toilet - the Nageswaran family soon realised they needed an astronomer, not a contractor, to fully explain what damaged their house. Scientists determined it was a meteorite that crashed through the roof of …
After the failure of the GSLV launch in July last year, scientists at the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) have begun their countdown for the launch of Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV)-C7 tomorrow. The PSLV will put into orbit a remote sensing satellite with mapping applications and a space capsule …
It was not from the neighbourhood. The object that tore through the roof of a house in the New Jersey suburbs last week was an iron meteorite, perhaps billions of years old and maybe ripped from the belly of an asteroid, experts who examined it said. It has been tentatively …
One of the largest mysteries of the Universe is about to be unravelled with the first detailed, three-dimensional map of Dark Matter - the invisible material that makes up most of the cosmos. Astronomers announced that they have achieved the apparently impossible task of building every attempt to detect it …
