Father’s missive

Letter>> Genetics • The UK

Stress saves

Stress hormone helps animals change shape to evade predators

Bad days for film

Contest>> Camera • Japan

Simply Put: COVID-19 and the Earth

Simply put: Earth revolves around the Sun

In ink and line

Day 1 of World Health Assembly highlights why WHO is crucial for universal health

Hudhud gains speed and strength as it prepares for landfall

Severe weather conditions in coastal Andhra Pradesh and Odisha from today evening

Earth's spinning innards

A recent finding about the earth's core could hold a clue to the forces that shape the planet

Steaming stones

A quaky future

Creepy forebodings

Pole track

Hot spot motion

Deadly impact

A series of comet collisions with the Earth may have led to the extinction of many species

Of ups and downs

Shifts in the Earth's rotational axis caused changes in sea level

Mapping Food

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This once-stable Antarctic region has suddenly started melting

The fact that so many glaciers in such a large region suddenly started to lose ice came as a surprise

Growth of renewable energy in India

Renewable energy has arrived. In matter of a decade, it has grown from a fringe player to a mainstream actor in the energy sector

Beyond home

Bill Clinton's absence from the Copenhagen summit on social development underscores the post-Cold War parochialism that has gripped the American …

The slower, the safer

Geologists in the US have discovered that earthquakes can also occur slowly causing minimal damage

Hitting rock-bottom

Certain rocks, discovered literally in the pits of the earth, could substantially change the prevailing tectonic theory

To quake or not to quake

Earthquakes occurring below oceans have been the subject of intense speculation of seismologists across the globe. Theories of the past have …

Earthy ups and downs

New images of the earth's interior show that slabs of surface rock sink to the bottom of the core

Early birds

Rocks -- 3.85 billion year old --show that battered by meteors and supposedly sterile, ancient Earth still harboured life-forms