Frequent cyclones in the Arabian sea might be the result of a fattening cloud of pollutants hovering over the Indian subcontinent.

On Monday, October 31, there will be seven billion humans on the planet. The world celebrated the birth of the sixth billionth baby in 1999; it took us just 12 years to add a billion more.

AMERICAN RESEAR-CHERS have demonstrated the evolution of flight while improving on their experimental robot design.

The Megha-Tropiques satellite, an Indo-French joint effort, that will study the tropical climate, launched last week from the island of Sriharikota, the Indian spaceport. The one-tonne satellite was the biggest of four satellites carried by the ISRO rocket Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV).

Evidence of the earliest art-studio, existing 100,000 years ago, has been unearthed, literally.

One of the most sophisticated machines on earth, the ALMA — Atacama large millimetre/sub-millimetre array, opened its eyes this week and has started peering deep into the universe to find the light f

The innermost planet, our little sibling Mercury might be very similar to other terrestrial planets in the solar family, but as Nasa’s Messenger probe finds, it has many secrets of its own.

The Ig Nobel prizes were awarded last week to “improbable yet genuine” work in science, including resea-rch on psychology with a full bladder, beetle sex with beer caps, wasabi firealarms for the deaf

Since the news of “light barrier-breaking neutrinos” hit the blogosphere, physicists are in a confused uproar of disbelief, excitement and imagination.

New scientific trends are hardly unfounded at the British Science festival. It is here that the term “scientist” was coined and the word “dinosaur” was first used.