Paint that changes colour when the metal beneath it corrodes is being developed at the Ohio State University. Preliminary studies have shown the paint can pinpoint a corrosion cavity that is

Marguerite, the first calf to be cloned in France, has died at about six weeks of age from an infected muscle tear, researchers have

Indians today have heart attacks 2.5-to-five times more frequently than people in the West, and by the year 2020 heart disease will be the top killer disease in

Dr V Saldana, of the National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO) today said that the services of more NGOs will have to be availed of, to gather AIDS related data in the North East. He agreed that the

The Central Government has reconstituted a high-level technical advisory committee on lakes to oversee matters of development and management of these natural water bodies. The Committee headed by the

Rising levels of "greenhouse gases" in the atmosphere will lead to further depletion of earth's protection ozone layer and could produce an Arctic "ozone hole" equivalent to the one already appearing

A report released argues that radioactive pigeons at Britain's Sellafield plutonium reprocessing site may well indicate widespread and unexamined contamination of the general public and environment.

Scientists at the G.B.Pant Institute of Himalayan Environment and Development at Almora have drawn attention to the urgent need for developing an action-oriented network programme to protect

Nearly a year after the Assistant drug Controller of India cautioned hospitals about possible contamination of intravenous fluids, a city hospital has reported visible contamination of the IV fluid

Water rationing for more than 600,000 people in the Klang Valley has been extended for another two weeks from tomorrow, while the same exercise will begin in Seremban on the same day and could go on