imagine what A P J Abdul Kalam would be doing today had he not been making Prithvi and Agni . He would, in that case, be certainly mediating in a sufi shrine in some remote corner of

It is now down to the summit. Marine scientists are planning to build an observatory at the tip of a massive underwater volcano. Recently,

Scientists at the Lawrence Livermore Laboratory have made a thermonuclear fusion reactor that, they claim, can fit on a laboratory bench. The reactor consists of

Scientists discover the atomic phenomenon behind friction

Melting Himalayan glaciers are threatening to unleash a torrent of floods into mountain valleys, and ultimately dry up rivers across South Asia. A new study, due to be presented in July to the International Commission on Snow and Ice (ICSI), predicts that most of the glaciers in the region will vanish within 40 years as a result of global warming.

High levels of sulphur dioxide in the air could threaten the agricultural sector

HYBRID VEHICLE: Nissan Motor Company Limited of Tokyo said that it aimed to start sales of gasoline-electric hybrid cars in Japan at the beginning of the year 2000. The

geoscientists and physicists in Assam have warned that the northeastern parts of India and western Burma are likely

russian scientists' attempt to reflect the Sun's light towards dark areas of the Earth floundered when the giant mirror failed. Astronauts aboard the Russian space station Mir were to

Scientists guide light through a new generation of fibre optic cables

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