Science

<p> <strong>Irrespective of the hemisphere, region or country, the problem of river pollution is present at a global scale. A case in point is the extraordinary news about “wet wipe …

<p> <strong>The Indian Council of Agricultural Research’s National Bureau of Fish Genetic Resources has discovered two new marine fishes.</strong></p> <p> The first is an eel discovered when a specimen was …

<p> <strong>Climate change and global warming has had serious repercussions world over. Among them are the mountainous regions where receding glaciers have led to scarcity of water for drinking and …

<p> <strong>Human beings have come to accept dogs among all other animals as part of their daily life either as strays or as pets. Still, the question which keeps coming …

<p> <strong>It is a garden where visitors are forbidden to touch, smell or taste any of the plants because located in England’s Northumberland this garden is the world’s deadliest. Forming …

<p> <strong>The advent of monsoon while providing relief to the citizens of Delhi-NCR also forced the reptilian population to leave their burrows to seek refuge at safe places. This triggered …

<p> <strong>The Giant Pandas who have become popular world over being the logo of the World Wildlife Fund has something unusual. It has a thumb which is actually not a …

<p> <strong>It reads like the plot of a Western spaghetti film or Indian pot boiler movie where two characters terrorise a community. Much like them in the waters of Gansbaai …

<p> <strong>It was indeed a proud day for India, as keeping up with its commitment to reduce carbon footprint, the country’s largest floating Solar Power Project has become fully operational.</strong></p> …

<p> <strong>Swimming in the waters, the marine fishes, sea dragons look stunning while their colours dazzle, drawing the entire limelight on themselves! Yet, according to a report in sciencealert.com, there …

<p> The ban on single-use plastics by the Centre in order to reduce pollution in the ecosystem comes into effect nationwide from today. </p> <p> Single-use plastics are items that are …

<p> <strong>Plants are generally thought to be benign, providing food and shade for other beings but there is another side of theirs – the carnivorous species. These, as the name …

<p> <strong>It is usually expected that a creature which is bigger, faster and deadlier will be able to eat another animal either from its own species or another. Yet, sometimes …

<p> <strong>Octopuses have been known to be intelligent as compared to several other creatures in their category – invertebrates. And now a new study brings to light one of the …

<p> <strong>Today the polar and the brown bears are living apart but in the past their habitats had overlapped and they had intermingled. Close examination of the DNA recovered from …

<p> <strong>Setting an example for others to follow, the Delhi Airport — the country’s busiest – has become totally dependent on green energy as it is using hydro and solar …

<p> <strong>Between 15 and 18 million years ago in parts of Africa there were two species of giant dwarf crocodile which may have been terror for the human beings at …

<p> <strong>On the occasion of International Day of Yoga today, the National Monuments Authority is organising an astrophysical study of the movement of the sun around Qutub Minar.</strong></p> <p> The …

<p> <strong>There is a glimmer of hope for wildlife lovers and conservationists as a population of polar bears in Greenland has been found in a place where they were not …

<p> <strong>World’s two wettest places – Cherrapunji and Mawsynram – in Meghalaya State in Northeast India have registered record-breaking rainfall this week.</strong></p> <p> In the 24-hour period between Tuesday and …

<p> <strong>It has been a mystery for the scientific community and lovers of marine life as to how in deep waters, creatures hunt their food as the vision is absolutely …