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 …
LONDON: Science has now proved what Shakespeare always said—rosemary aroma improves memory and helps you remember to do things. The aroma of rosemary essential oil may improve memory in healthy adults, say Northumbria researchers. Jemma McCready and Dr Mark Moss presented their findings at the Annual Conference of the British …
John Maynard Keynes, the British economist, once described Issac Newton and physicists of his time as “not the first of the scientists, but the last of the sorcerers”. The British economist, rather uncharacteristically, did not substantiate. But in The Clockwork Universe, Isaac Newton, the Royal Society and the Birth of …
When German inventor Johannes Gutenberg devised the printing press, he scarcely had an inkling of his debt to China. But as Steven Johnson writes in Where Good Ideas Come From, A Natural History of Innovation, the 15th century inventor would not have managed without Chinese ink and movable type. The …
At school the periodic table was one of those things to be mugged up. Some - how the iron, silver and gold in Mendeleev’s chart seemed alien to the stuff we used everyday. Pity we did not have Sam Kean’s The Disappearing Spoon. The book tells the histories of the …
On a damp November day in 1660, 12 London University dons listened in rapt attention as Christopher Wren, a young astronomer, lectured about the moon. Elated after the lecture, they decided to gather every week to talk about science. Wren was also roped in and the informal gathering coalesced into …
Pope Benedict XVI called off a visit to a prestigious university in Rome in the face of hostility from some of its academics and students, who accused him of despising science and defending the church's persecution of Galileo. The Pope had been scheduled to make a speech at La Sapienza …
In a 1995 article in The New Statesman, the anthropologist Jonathan Benthall wrote, "Clifford Geertz disappoints some colleagues because he comes up with no overarching theories.' Benthall was right or at least partly so: Geertz deliberately chose not to expound universal theories, seeking instead to find meaning in small-scale observations …
THE 9 billion humans inhabiting the earth today originated about 270,000 years ago from a population of a few thousand in one region of the world and then dispersed, says a recent study. This challenges the origin of species hypothesis which says that modern humans began evolving about a million …
HISTORY informs us that the year Galileo died was the year Newton was born, thus ensuring a seamless continuum of the spirit of the ongoing revolution in physics. Martin Bernal's recent volumes on the Afro-Asiatic Roots of Western Civilisation, which appeared a couple of years ago, could be seen as …
A COMMITTEE of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) -- the world body that finalises names of chemical substances -- recently abandoned a move to name an element after the American Glenn T Seaborg, who won the 1951 Nobel Prize for chemistry. The only reason given for …
