Drishti to improve runway visibility at airports

The indigenously developed system comes at a fraction of the cost of instruments currently in use

Debating science risks

Chinese scientists appear to be more open to discussing the risks and ethics of new technologies than their Indian counterparts

Green crackers answer to Diwali pollution but manufacturing limited

Most green crackers do not contain barium nitrate, which is the most dangerous ingredient in conventional crackers

Biotech industry has a new patron

Department of Biotechnology is playing venture capitalist to private companies to push biotech research in agriculture

Jungle raj

CAG memo shows IFS officers are administering country’s premier forestry research body like a fiefdom

When scientists blow a fuse

Giving a facelift

Wild thoughts pay

Patent bank

Prizing knowledge

Has the CSIR been a backbencher in the field of scientific research in India?

CSIR goes liberal

ACTION DEMANDED

CSIR announces Young Scientist Award 2020

The award will be given to seven scientists working in different institutions of CSIR

Plum posts

Violating our patents

Herbal hunt

Doda to host lavender festival

Down To Earth last year reported on Jammu’s 'purple revolution’

Herb to the rescue

Operation Himalayan yew

ONGC returns salvo

Braving the cyclones

Spiked petrol

Indian scientists hit novel formulation for cost-effective and thermo-stable Insulin

Fibrilliation lead to loss of effective quantum of insulin

Garnering research funds

Patenting a tradition