A new drug will reduce the agony and the costs of treating thalassaemia, a hereditary blood disorder

The extinction of species decreases plant productivity and impairs the functions of an ecosystem like mopping up carbon dioxide

A pregnant woman exposed to cigarette smoke can pass on the harmful smoke constituents to the foetus

GREEN pigments, scientists believed, were found only in plants. In most animals whose plumage or body parts appear green, the colour is seen not because of pigments but because of the refraction of

A UK power company, Eastern Electric, has pioneered a technique to prevent fresh fruit from ripening and decaying in storage. Normally, fruits stored in refrigerated warehouses continue to ripen

A hypothesis that radiation from a nuclear plant caused leukaemia in the children of its employees has been trashed

SCIENTISTS have recently confirmed the presence in the lungs of asthmatics of an enzyme that produces nitric oxide, which damages cells lining the airways. Nitric oxide was known to be present in the

A recent astronomical observation may prove to be the first sighting of a class of celestial bodies whose existence was postulated about two decades ago.

A furore over the ethics of the new eugenics reproduction technologies that could create 'designer' babies has the medical community worldwide in a fix.

THE FUTURE of the windmill industry in Britain appears bleak now that Taylor Woodrow, the proprietor of the Wind Energy Group (WEG), plans to withdraw. Woodrow, one of the leading players in this