A team of German physicists has discovered a new chemical element, atomic number 111, which is reported to have survived for less than 2,000th of a second. The research team, led by Siguard Hofman

Over the next few years, ozone loss is projected to go from to worse

A new instrument makes the task of monitoring ozone levels easier

A hypothesis that radiation from a nuclear plant caused leukaemia in the children of its employees has been trashed

The Meghalaya government is taking no chances even though uranium mining in the state has been given a clean chit by a high-level team led by Atomic Energy Commission chairperson R Chidambaram.

USE OF additives, irradiation and the threat of pesticide residues and food-borne infections have led to the quality of diet being questioned these days as never before. Factory Farming comes as a

AUSTRALIAN astronomers have chanced upon a rare type of pulsar (a word coined from pulsating star) -- a cosmic source of regular and rapid pulses of radiation, usually at radio frequencies. The

The puckish wit of the actor turned anchorperson in Turning Point has contributed to the popularity of the programme

FOR the first time ever humans have grabbed a peep-hole into the birth of the universe about 15 billion years ago. Since the Big Bang theory was first mooted in 1964, scientists have found it

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