Fish stocks in Asia-Pacific to be over by 2048
Economic growth is leading to the decline of biodiversity, says a report released in Colombia
C V Raman Fellowships bring African and Indian researchers closer
Between 2010 and 2018, close to 500 African researchers availed the C V Raman International Fellowship to improve the quality of lives …
Climate change to affect rice productivity, finds a new study
Elevated temperature was found to have a negative impact on rice productivity, even nullifying the positive effects of higher level of CO2 …
Caterpillars could hold the key to managing plastic waste: study
Moth caterpillars, which bio-degrade polyethylene found in plastic bags, can help scientists find a viable solution to the plastic waste problem
Do you really choose what you eat – or do your gut microbes decide for you?
A new study with fruit flies suggests that we may have less free will when it comes to choosing what we eat than we like to think
Making sex count
In the annals of modern medicine, medical research experiments have always been sexist. The tide is finally turning
Plant microbiomes are not exactly a ‘treasure-trove’
Breeding plants with more beneficial bacteria to feed the world won’t be simple, study says
Increase investment in R&D in India, stress experts at Indian Science Congress
Advocate adopting a Public Private Partnership approach and promoting technology transfer
ICMR releases new draft guidelines on bio-medical research involving children
Children’s nod would be compulsory for making them part of any clinical trials, say guidelines
`Student satellites are more than lab experiments'
D V A Raghava Murthy, director, Earth Observations Systems, was the project director of Small Satellite Projects at ISRO Satellite Centre between …
Novel Therapy
Bimal K Banik is President’s Endowed Professor and professor of chemistry at College of Science and Mathematics, University of Texas-Pan …
Perfect model
Biologists use a variety of animal models for experiments. But a mouse or a fruitfly cannot truly represent a human being. Jessica Bolker, …
A shot in the arm for abandoned vaccine trials
With HIV spreading fast in some Third World nations, these countries have decided to end months of uncertainity by opting for vaccine trials …
Shutting down the particle powerhouse
Even though funds for the Superconducting Super Collider have dried up, particle physicists are determined to prove their theory of, well, everything
An empire withers away
Recent findings suggest the Akkadian empire, which once flourished on the banks of the Euphrates, collapsed because of a sudden dearth of water.
A question of leadership
The issue of leadership and management of R&D institutions proves to be a stumbling block in making such bodies more productive.
Making clothes more comfortable
A mathematical theory may result in an objective technique to evaluate both the comfort of a fabric and how it will behave over time
Are your organs in the right place?
Scientists have hit on a gene that decides exactly where internal organs will be positioned in the body of a mouse
Rao wants more opportunities for young talent
Twenty-five scientists met the Prime Minister recently and appraised him of the issues confronting scientific research in India
The female face of environment
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Supercomputers map global ocean currents
Scientists have created the most realistic model of ocean currents yet and taken another step towards understanding global climate
No more shrinking from shrimps
Scientists in Bangalore have identified the protein that makes people allergic to the meat of shrimps, crabs and prawns. Now they will be able to …
No money for labs in antibiotics research
Though increasing bacterial resistance to antibiotics is making it difficult to treat diseases such as malaria, pharmaceutical companies do not …
Super panel proposed to promote research
The setting-up of a national research body and reviving the cabinet committee on science and technology are among the steps the government is …
Protein provides clue to Alzheimer's disease
Scientists have made a significant breakthrough in treating this old-age disease, with the discovery that abnormal production of proteins, called …