INDIAN traditional knowledge, as well as plants of the Amazon, continue to be "stolen" by scientists from other nations and used by pharmaceutical companies to develop new drugs. And, says Peter

RELEASING the biggest wave of classified nuclear secrets ever to pour out of Washington, US energy secretary Hazel O'Leary admitted that between 1945 and 1990, the country had conducted 204 secret

• US computer software companies are in a state of shock over an announcement by Compton's New Media, a small US company, that it has been granted a patent on computer systems that retrieve

The Union environment minister says that a comprehensive bill to protect India"s biodiversity is on the anvil. But whether it can be a timely, effective measure that give farmers and tribals right over their biological knowledge, remains to be seen.

The 81st session of the Indian Science Congress failed to inspire interaction among scientists and was reduced to a forum for criticising the state of Indian science.

Children are more likely to develop the spirit of scientific inquiry when they treat science like a game than when they have to study it.

With a sharp fall in India's tiger population, the ministry of environment and forests has decided to set up special teams to deal with poaching.

The Gujarat government has been ordered not to close the sluice gates of the Sardar Sarovar dam until all rehabilitation and resettlement plans are finalised

Interpreting dreams to help diagnosis was a major topic of discussion at a two-day convention organised by the Indian Homoeopathic Institute at Vijayawada in December 1993. The participants agreed

The Pune-based Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM) will conduct an experiment to improve weather forecasting by using additional parameters. The pilot project, which will be sponsored by