Smokeless ashtrays devised to protect non smokers are not all that effective, as it was believed

The scourge of pollution has not spared even the icy continent

Scientists are catching up with the biological clock in plants

Enzymes remain active at freezing temperatures

Researchers at the us Agriculture Department claim that pest population in grain stores can be controlled by increasing the population of a tiny insect-eating bug. Lycotcoris Campestris -- the

New technology to develop steel is on the forge

Research indicates that there is still a place for that much maligned pesticide DDT, in controlling the Tse-tse fly, a vector in the debilitating disease trypanosomiasis -- the dreaded sleeping

Enriching oceans with iron could help absorb atmospheric carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas

Scientists from the Kochi-based Central Institute of Fisheries Technology have developed surgical suture -- a fibre for stitching up a wound -- from fish gut that can be absorbed by the body.