"Our first supercomputer, PARAM, represents the potential India has in high-tech areas, especially in terms of skilled, dynamic humanpower," says N Vittal, former secretary in the department of
A group of scientists is attempting to collect and store genetic material from various tribes on the verge of extinction in an effort to preserve their characteristics.
The MNES has proposed the establishment of a solar thermal power plant near Jodhpur, even though such plants have proved commercially unviable in the past.
A group of American psychiatrists have proclaimed that some women suffer from a mental illness that usually begins a week before their menstrual period.
THE recent locust attack has made India and Pakistan suspend their rivalry and launch a large-scale joint operation along their border between Punjab and Sindh. "This is a common problem. We'll have
Rapid developments in human gene cloning and efficient gene-transfer technologies have opened up the possibility, in a sense, of producing transgenic humans. In the past four years, researchers have