Women in Turkey, Chile and the US are among the world's most frequent criers, and men from Spain, Peru and Bulgaria cry the least, according to a study done by psychologists from the

AN OIL slick in the English Channel is threatening marine life along a 225 km stretch of the southeastern coast of England. "This is the first major incident of its kind that we have had since the

The Hubble telescope is slowly wearing out and efforts to repair it are on, alongwith preparations for its replacement

THE Arctic is in the midst of a major climatic shift, warn Arctic scientists who have written to the US National Science Foundation (NSF) urging it to support a monitoring programme. No one knows

An open nuclear industry would hardly indicate that India has achieved desired safety levels

Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ornl) researchers in the US have theorised that mercury in soil gas is absorbed by plants when the plants ' mercury level is low. But when their mercury level rises

the world wide Fund for Nature (wwf) made a strong plea for the conservation and restoration of wetlands throughout the world on the occasion of the World Wetlands Day on February 1. Despite

David Michelson and his team from the National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, US , have found that clinical depression in women can lead to broken bones. They measured the bone-mineral