A cheap, effective technique to remove toxic polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) from contaminated soil has been developed in the US by scientists at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Tennessee. The
In a serendipitous discovery, scientists at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory and the University of California at Berkeley may have found an inexpensive material for making windows more energy-efficient.
Scientists may have stumbled onto a new way to treat depression:an experimental drug that targets a mysterious brain chemical that doctors did not know was at work in mental disorders. Merck & Co.'s
Digging in a cemetery on the Arctic island of Spitsbergen, Norway, medical scientists found the seven coffins they were looking for, but the coffins were not what they wanted to find. They had hoped
Govt : One out of every hundred persons is infected with HIV, admits the Union government, on the basis of recent country wide surveys. This indicates a serious spread of AIDS in this country. "The
Several Shahdara residents have been consuming water laced with heavy metals and toxic compounds, while Delhiites living in some southern part of the city are exposed to the danger of nitrate excess.
The Sydney law firm Cashman and Partners will continue to battle the implant manufacturer Dow Corning in the US Bankruptcy Court despite an in-principle agreement by Dow Corning to pay $66.5 million
A private firm hired to get rid of garbage generated in Chiang Mai's town municipality of Thailand has been accused by the Lampang governor of dumping trash in his province despite a ban on the
