Agro tech to be evaluated

It is payback time for the scientific establishment too! The incumbent Indian government, keen to amass political capital well before the next year s general elections, hasn t spared scientific research in the country either. An increasing number of ads

In 2002, the Survey of India began a year long programme which celebrated 200 years of the Great Trigonometrical Survey, a mammoth cross country exercise the colonial government undertook in the nineteenth century to map the terrain of the then Indian s

On June 28, 1993, the Supreme Court of the us passed a verdict that tilted the scales of justice in favour of polluters by undermining the role of science in the country s judicial arena. This fact was made public during a recent press conference of the T

IPRs lead to shoddy research, admits world s oldest scientific academy

Scientists in the us have developed an ultra thin electronic display that could well transform into an e newspaper. The black and white display is constructed from steel foil and is less than 0.3 millimetres thick. It can be viewed from most angles and ca