Crop pests are adapting to climate change and are evolving to spread to new areas, wreaking more havoc. Dan Bebber from the department of biosciences...

Cockroaches are known for their special ability to slip through some of the narrowest gaps, and this superior maneuvering skill can be attributed to...

Among the various strategies scientists are working on to tackle climate change, carbon-negative technologies have gained a lot of attention in the...

Cancer is one of the few scourges that have been known for thousands of years but scientists are yet to find a definitive treatment for it. According...

FISH have an inherent knack of swimming through most difficult of rivers, but it is a different story when it comes to navigating through dams....

THE Chinook salmon is a marine fish that hatches in freshwater. It then migrates to specific feeding habitats thousands of kilometres away in the sea...

THE tallgrass prairies of North America have rich fertile soil and have been ravaged for cultivation for centuries. Restoration efforts are now under...

Conservation efforts generally entail elaborate action plans to counter threats to biodiversity and wildlife. But it has been seen that there is too...

IT is a common belief that landscape simplification, or conversion of land for agriculture, results in increased use of pesticides due to the loss of...

An unprecedented number of hysterectomies (surgical removal of uterus) were conducted in Bihar and Rajasthan in 2012. It later came to light that...