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India has jumped to the third position in the global ranking for scientific publications, Science and Technology Minister Jitendra Singh has said. He disclosed on Sunday that according to the …

Sarvesh Prabhu, a 17-year-old student who is a research intern from International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) in Hyderabad, Telangana has brought laurels for the country and …

In a major find, scientists have found fossilised remains of lizards and snakes which belong to the late Miocene period in Himachal Pradesh, India dating back to 9.1 million years …

Usually, one imagines that parasites adversely affect an organism’s health and well-being but there is more. Toxoplasma gondii parasite is known to influence the demeanour of an animal and for …

The US Department of Energy said on Sunday it would announce a “major scientific breakthrough” this week, after The Financial Times reported on Sunday that scientists in the California-based Lawrence …

Inspired and dictated by his love for the environment and concerned with its degradation, K. Bulbendran has created a man-made forest at Ayiramacre village located in Kerala’s Idukki district. It …

The asteroid which was 10 kilometres in diameter struck the seas of the Yucatan Peninsula 66 million years ago and caused upheavals of gigantic proportions. It made the world shake …

COP15 – the UN’s biodiversity summit to halt ecological destruction and biodiversity loss begins today in Montreal, Canada. It was supposed to be held in Kunming, China, but was postponed …

Union Minister of State for Atomic Energy and Space, Dr Jitendra Singh, informed the Lok Sabha today that the Government proposes to set up more nuclear power plants for augmenting …

The scientists at Indian Institute of Technology Madras have developed and deployed a system capable of generating electricity using energy from sea waves. This system, christened as Sindhuja-I has been …

The northern long-eared bats in United States are in a vulnerable situation. A report in smithsonianmag.com stated that a fatal disease caused by fungus has killed them in such large …

People living in remote areas with no or irregular access to power face the problem of heating their food and making a hot drink. This can be solved as a …

One keeps hearing and reading news about how proposed dams are going to adversely affect the environment of a region. Contrary to that, the headlines about the demotion of four …

Java, one of the islands of Indonesia was struck by an earthquake last week and it left 321 people dead while grievously injuring 2,000 others. That is not all as …

Making forays into the electric vehicle segment, the students of Indian Institute of Technology, Madras have launched the first-of-its-kind electric formula racing car on Monday at the campus. Designated as …

India’s top environmental science practitioners say the world has to do more to prevent a climate catastrophe. Chetan Singh Solanki, IITB professor, says that carbon dioxide once released into the …

The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) will launch Earth Observation Satellite – Oceansat and eight other customer satellites on a PSLV-C54 rocket from the spaceport at Sriharikota today. The 56th …

A recent post on the Facebook page of the United States National Park Service took everyone by surprise. The agency which manages all the national parks of the country had …

The work on India’s first-ever ‘Night Sky Sanctuary’ in Ladakh’s Hanle is going on in full swing and is expected to be complete in over a month’s time. The sanctuary, …

One is never sure of what surprises are in store when one goes around exploring. Something similar to this happened to Wiley Prewitt who while looking at a freshly uncovered …

The agreement over the setting up of a loss and damage fund has been the bright spot for COP27 at Sharm-el-Sheikh. All these decades, negotiations over climate finance and transfer …