Antarctica seems to be melting and contributing to the slow rise of the ocean levels, scientists from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory of the

Scientists in California and Finland have done what may be the first study that provides estimates of the strength of genetic influences on the size and shape of different parts of the brain. The

a loophole in the law could make human cloning legal for scientists in Britain. This loophole, exposed in a uk court by anti-cloning campaigners, has triggered a lot of furore. Following the

A four atom oxygen molecule might make for good fuel

The prestigious Johns Hopkins University (JHU) in Baltimore, US , has admitted that one of its researchers used patients at the Regional Cancer Centre (RCC) in Kerala as human guinea pigs to

Discovery of a crater sheds new light on the end of many Middle East civilisations

Recently found fossils provide evidence that mammals were predecessors of whales

A recent research throws light on the possibility that the laws of physics were different in the past

A mountaineering expedition into the Nanda Devi Biosphere Reserve revives the debate on ecotourism and people s rights over forests.

A magnet when heated above its so-called Curie temperature becomes demagnetised. Recently a calcium compound, cab6, doped with lanthanum was reported to have a Curie temperature of about 600