After the proposed Nylon 6,6 plant in Goa was discussed threadbare and opposed by many, the Greens succeeded in having the project shifted out

WHEN the giant comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 crashed against Jupiter exactly a year ago and took the world of science by storm, it also created water. Researchers working with Italy's National

Burgeoning flyash dumps in Kolaghat spread silicosis

An unexplored region of the electromagnetic spectrum is to be exploited for imaging

Phillip Tobias, head of the anthropology department at Witwatersrand University, with his discovery: primate bones dating from 3.5 million years ago, marking a crucial transition stage

A historic victory was achieved by Nepal's environmentalists and citizens' groups, when the World Bank announced on August 4 in Washington DC, that the proposed Bank loan to Nepars Arun IH dam

Using light instead of electrons in circuits

SCIENTISTS have now found a way to render "killer" malaria viruses impotent. Researchers based in the Institute of Molecular Medicine at Oxford University and other research bodies in the us have

Tourism Concern, a London network drawing attention to the rights of people living in the tourist hotspots of the world, recently publiclsed Goa's tourism problems in the UK's mainstream

Researchers at the University of Leiden, the Netherlands, have photographed images of the growth of Helium-3 crystals. The crystals, grown at a temperature of 0.001' Kelvin - close to the lowest