The government has decided to set up two institutes to deal with the impact of climate change on Indian agriculture. Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar said the government was in the process of setting up the National Institute on Biotic Stress Management and Indian Institute of Agricultural Biotechnology under the Indian Council of Agricultural Research.
An international team of physicists working in the bottom of an old iron mine in Minnesota said on Thursday that they might have registered the first faint hints of a ghostly sea of subatomic particles known as dark matter long thought to permeate the cosmos.
Paris: Astronomers have discovered a new Earth-like planet that is larger than our own and may be more than half covered with water, according to a study published in the science journal Nature.
Soon, remote villages and small towns in rural India as well as the Australian outback could be powered by self-sufficient sustainable energy-based mini-grids.
BHUBANESWAR: Is desertification process in Orissa already on? The answer appears to be yes if one goes by the latest report of Space Application Centre, Ahmedabad that has bracketed Orissa among top five States facing
VELLORE: Calling on engineers to come up with technologies which will aid in the development of a fleet of robots for underwater exploration, Mohd Rizal Arshad, Director of the Underwater Robotics Research Group, at Universiti Sains, Malaysia, on Tuesday said engineering must act as a tool for oceanographers to study the ocean.
The Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB), Hyderabad, in association with Indo-US Science and Technology Forum (IUSSTF) is organising an Indo-US Workshop on Epigenetic Regulation and Genome Control from December 16-18. Dr S.K.
MUMBAI: The crucial Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) study for the proposed Navi Mumbai airport, sought by the Union ministry of Environment and Forests before it gives the go-ahead to the project, is ready for submission.
