The latest meeting to decide upon funding for the ozone protocol ended up with the developed nations foiling the basic demands of the G 77 countries, adding more disputed issues in the square brackets
In what appears to be the decade s most spectacular event in biology, scientists sequenced the entire genome of Methanococcus jannaschii , a primitive microbe that not only provides fundamental insights into early evolution, but also holds a lot
in the ongoing saga of unravelling the mysteries of the universe, the latest pictures sent by the Hubble space telescope opens a new chapter on how galaxies are possibly born. The new images show
The mandarins of the Indian science establishment have begun pushing the process of making the wonder fuel from water and herbs to its logical conclusion: patent and commercial exploitation, and the news has set the media aflame
Proctor and Gamble Company is developing a method that it hopes will lead to the largescale and rapid composting of most non-recyclable solid wastes. Its researchers at the Winton Hill Technical
The archaeon M jannaschii was originally isolated in 1983 by John Leigh (then at the University of Illinois; now at the University of Washington) from a sample collected from the hydrothermal vent
A Japanese construction firm, Taisei Corporation, has developed a soil bioremediation technique that offers a less expensive and environmentally benign response to soil that has been contaminated
