longest core: A core measuring more than 1.5 kilometres long has been recovered under the Chesa

In a classic clash between religion and science, a us federal judge has ruled against the concept of

Kansas Board of Education in the us state of Kansas has redefined the origin of life. The board ruled that science classes in public schools should teach Intelligent Design (id), which casts

The Net administration is changing rapidly to serve business interests

INDIANS ELECTED: Two Indian scientists, Goverdhan Mehta and Anupam Varma, have been elected to the International Council for Science (ICSU) regional committee for Asia and the Pacific. Mehta, former

Popular search engine Google's free mapping programme, Google Earth, has been criticised by various governments, including India, which feel that the satellite images with resolution as high as one

Cryosat, a sattelite of the European Space Agency (esa), plumetted north of Greenland close to the region of the Lincoln Sea near North Pole, with no consequences to populated areas. The us $168

brain wave: A team of Swiss neuroscientists and computer engineers are trying to program a computer to create a brain. In collaboration with IBM, the scientists are building a computer model of

Harvest order: The Supreme Court recently issued notices to the Union and the state governments, urging them to conserve rainwater. The move came in response to a petition filed by Tap-Rejuvenate

Rekindling the debate over the interference of politics in scientific research, the us National Academy of Sciences (nas) disregarded the caution of the us Health and Human Services Department