Sep 30 2008
Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit has said that her government has “halted the rot of pollution” choking the Indian capital through a massive environment awareness campaign launched with people’s involvement. Speaking during a round...
Sep 30 2008
Flushed with the success of Olympic traffic controls and struck by the painful return to congested normality, Beijing on Saturday unveile d plans for smaller-scale but permanent controls on its drivers.
Sep 30 2008
Heritage conservationists here disagree with the district administration’s concern over the rising waters of the Yamuna river posing a threat to the Taj Mahal and other Mughal era monuments. In fact, they say, the rising waters could be good for...
Sep 30 2008
Dainty blue fish dart around coral shaped like moose antlers near the Mexican resort of Cancun, but sickly brown spots are appearing where pollution threatens one of the world’s largest reefs.
Sep 30 2008
An internet entrepreneur’s latest effort to make space launch more affordable paid off when his commercial rocket, carrying a dummy payload, was lofted into orbit from the South Pacific. It was the fourth attempt by Space Exploration...
Sep 30 2008
LONDON: Experiments on mice conducted by Emory University researchers have revealed that a protein required for the earliest steps in embryonic d evelopment, beta-catenin, also plays a key role in solidifying fear memories in the brain.
Sep 30 2008
Scientists have begun work to commercially produce a tiny and cheap satellite that could collect readings from your electricity and gas meters
Sep 30 2008
At least 113 people have been killed and several injured in a stampede at Chamunda Devi temple in Jodhpur, according to a senior Rajasthan government .
Sep 22 2008
The fault that has shut down the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will be hugely disappointing for scientists and engineers following the successful “start-up” of the experiment. It is now over a week since the first beams were fired around the...
Sep 22 2008
People with dementia should be able to end their lives if they feel they are a burden to others or to the NHS, according to a respected ethicist. Baroness Mary Warnock, who has made similar calls in recent years, first made her remarks in a Church of...