Ethics of science in practice

fishy plant: A team of Australian scientists has created a plant that yields the highly beneficial long-chain omega-3 fatty acids usually found in fish oil. Allan Green of CSIRO, an Australian

Despite achievements, India s space programme is still struggling with projects targeting rural India, finds out T V JAYAN

Differences in the structure of the ocean floor off the coast of Sumatra could explain why the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake created a much larger tsunami than a similar magnitude quake the following year, according to a study.

farthest galaxies: The most distant cluster of galaxies yet has been revealed by astronomers to lie 9 billion light-years away. That beats the 8.5 billion light-years' distance of the previous

An important find at Gona in Ethiopia's Afar region, about 500 kilometres from Addis Ababa, is likely to fill a major gap in the story of human evolution. Fossils of Ardipithecus ramidus, one of the

Stem cells can replace pacemaker

using cotton gin residue: US researchers have found the waste generated when cotton is ginned (seeds separa

Today, it is accepted that farm mechanisation is an unavoidable imperative. For productivity must be increased. But

Beyond research spending, the gap in scientific output between developed and developing countries is glaring