Bacteria play a major role in cleaning up oil spills and mitigating its environmental impacts. A new review examines the major limiting factors for microbial degradation in Arctic environments

Biodiversity loss raises risk of 'extinction cascades'

20 Feb 2018

Consumer and industrial products now a dominant urban air pollution source

19 Feb 2018

'Excess emissions' make significant contribution to air pollution

19 Feb 2018

Walls, toxicity and explosions: How plant cells protect themselves from salinity in soil

17 Feb 2018

Melting ice sheets in Greenland, Antarctica increasing pace of sea level rise

13 Feb 2018

Sun will dim in next 30 years, warns scientists

12 Feb 2018

Dunkin Donuts to get rid of styrofoam cups by 2020

08 Feb 2018

BARC develops technology to convert sewage into bio-fertilizer

08 Feb 2018

Melting Arctic permafrost would release 15 mn gallons of mercury

08 Feb 2018

An underestimated threat: Land-based pollution with microplastics

07 Feb 2018

What magnets have to do with pistachios

07 Feb 2018

Ozone at lower latitudes is not recovering, despite Antarctic ozone hole healing

06 Feb 2018

Killer whale says ‘hello’ and ‘bye bye’

02 Feb 2018

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Lighter than air, yet very, very powerful

By Kiron Kasbekar | 03 Jan 2024

In March 2013 Chinese scientists pulled off a remarkable feat. They created the world’s lightest aerogel. Tipping the scales at a mere 0.16 milligrams per cubic centimeter – that’s a sixth of the weight of air!

COP28 explained: A closer look at COP28's climate change solutions

By Aniket Gupta | 27 Dec 2023

The 28th United Nations Climate Change Conference, also known as COP28, took place from 30th November 2023, to 13th December 2023, at Expo City in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

What is a Ponzi scheme?

By Aniket Gupta | 06 Dec 2023

Ponzi schemes have long captivated the public imagination, drawing unsuspecting investors into a web of illusion and deception.

The Rise and Rise of HDFC Bank

03 Jul 2023

HDFC, which surged ahead of global majors like HSBC Holdings Plc and Citigroup Inc and left Indian peers like State Bank of India and ICICI Bank in market capitalisation, now ranks fourth largest among the world’s most valuable banks, after JPMorgan Chase & Co, Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Ltd and Bank of America Corp

India’s Millet Revolution To Enrich Global Food Basket

02 Apr 2023

Millets, a healthier and cheaper substitute to wheat and rice, are indigenous to many parts of the world, especially in the semiarid tropics of Asia and Africa, and offers a big scope for expanding production and consumption in the foodgrain deficient African continent 

Market predator Hindenburg preys on Adani stock

06 Mar 2023

Almost a month after the damning report of short-seller Hindenburg Research on the Adani Group that claimed that the seven stocks within the group were about 85 per cent overvalued, one of the group's stocks, Adani Total Gas, closed at Rs835 on the BSE, down nearly 79 per cent from its 24 January level, almost close to reaching that valuation