from mad cow to mad fish. It is not the disease by another name; instead it is a "brand new disease' according to Donald Low, head of the department of microbiology at Mount Sinai and Princess

Bilaspur in Madhya Pradesh will be the first in the country to grant right to information to its people

Famished bacteria are now known to be able to enter porous media like soil and create a bio barrier to prevent the spread of pollutants

strange are the ways of the Scottish Environment Protection Agency ( sepa ). They have authorised salmon farmers to use a synthetic chemical

A WHO report on Southeast Asia blames poverty for the rot

Ever seen a chicken transform itself into a duck? The discovery of resear chers at New York's Memo

there seems to be some good news regarding the most imperilled marshlands on earth, the Florida Everglades. The South Florida Water Management District, which undertook studies of

Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania, in collaboration with those at the Marine Biological Lab in Massachusetts, US, have worked out the mechanism behind the fastest muscle among

sip in success: Dalmia Industries Ltd (DIL) has come up with a new cure for students having problems with remembering things. They have launched a memory drug Learnol, which is packaged both as a

How do some species of bacteria and a species of algae manage to survive in the inhospitable salty waters of the Dead Sea? Researchers in Israel and USA have got an answer for at least one such