Soon it may be possible to get resistance against a disease by simply eating a potato. A team headed by Charles Arntzen at the Boyce Thompson Institute of Plant Research in New York, US, has

Coal is making a comeback, in gaseous and liquid forms, as the fossil fuel of choice

heating of the planet can cause the dreaded dengue fever to rise to epidemic proportions. Simon Hales and colleagues at the Wellington School of Medicine in New Zealand believe that the occurrence

there seems to be some consensus on the means of disposing excess pluto

An American company has put up a proposal to the West Bengal government for setting up a power plant in Calcutta with a capacity to generate upto 200 mw of electricity daily from garbage and

Trees contaminated by radioactivity from the 1986 Chernobyl disaster are to be burnt to produce electri

Orbiting space junk poses a serious threat to future space exploration

A pocket sized camera with a transmitter is finding a lot of uses in police investigation

a project to study India's genetically diverse population groups has been proposed by the department of biotechnology (dbt). The country has 75 endangered tribal groups among its 465

A foodstuff industry fungus finds a new job: cleaning up ash from municipal waste