India, China and Nepal are set to launch a joint conservation initiative for the Mount Kailash landscape. The conservation will be meant to tackle the issue of glacial melt, biodiversity conservation and, interestingly, also have a mandate for cultural conservation in the Himalayan region.

Made By Smashing Calcium, Berkelium

A team of Russian and American scientists has discovered a new element that has long stood as a missing link among the heaviest bits of atomic matter ever produced. The element, still nameless, appears to point the way toward a brew of still more massive elements with chemical properties no one can predict.

The Indian Space Research Organisation is all set to do the country proud by launching its heavy geostationary communication satellite on 15 April using the indigenously built cryogenic engine, the technology for which was being denied to it since 1994.

Prasun Chatterjee, an Indian environmental engineering student whose research has contributed to a new way of detecting toxic lead and copper in water, has won one of the highest US research honours.

The 6.6 magnitude earthquake that occurred north of the Andaman Islands on March 30 is yet another confirmation that this particular region will continue to be source of severe earthquakes, says a leading Indian geologist.

London: A parliamentary panel investigating allegations that scientists at one of the world

CERN breaks its own record for high-energy collisions

GENEVA: The world's largest atom smasher conducted its first experiments at conditions nearing those after the Big Bang, breaking its own record for high-energy collisions with proton beams crashing into each other on Tuesday at 3.5 times more force than ever before.

London: Tomatoes can be made more sweeter by tweaking a gene that can also increase its yield by 60%, a new study has found.

Researchers at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in New York identified the gene that promotes

WASHINGTON: Since the surprise discovery last year of trace amounts of water on the moon, scientists have been redefining their concept of Earth's rocky neighbor. Now researchers say that the water on the Moon comes in three different flavors.

This new announcement comes hot on the tail of a series of water discoveries on the lunar surface.

Even after achieving success in producing the first

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