women who get beaten up at home are more vulnerable to asthma than those not subjected to domestic violence, a study says. The findings have been corroborated by social scientists working on

a new study claims to turn toxic cottonseeds into nutritious dinners for millions of undernourished people across the world. Keerti Rathore, a scientist at the Texas Agricultural Experiment

cars are designed to perform at their optimum when accelerated at one particular level. A slight deviation from that and the vehicles constantly lose energy. Whether on gear one, two, three or four,

An international consortium of scientists recently emphasised on the irreversible harm that toxic chemicals can cause to foetuses and infants. The consensus was reached at the International

of the worlds major biologically diverse zones, the Eastern and Western Ghats of India are among the richest, providing natural conservation to many unknown species of plants and animals. They

Partha Chaudhury, chief of nuclear medicine at Rajiv Gandhi Cancer Institute and Research Centre in New Delhi, explains radiopharmaceuticals What does the new radiopharmaceutical promise to do?

next time on the roads, don't scoff at the speed-breakers. They could actually light up small villages off the highway. An amateur innovator in Guwahati has developed a simple contraption

the Supreme Court has permitted conditional field trials of genetically modified (gm) crops approved by the Genetic Engineering Approval Committee (geac) in 2006. The anti-gm lobby in India,

The world's first vulture breeding programme for a socio-religious purpose has been shelved. Parsis are traditionally laid to rest in Mumbai's Tower of Silence where vultures (now endangered) devour