Powerful new technique reveals the mechanical environment of cells in their natural habitat, the living embryo

Whether building organs or maintaining healthy adult tissues, cells use biochemical and mechanical cues from their environment to make important decisions, such as becoming...

A Catastrophic Amount of Carbon Could Leak From the Soil By 2050

The term “snowball effect” is an unfortunate way to describe climate change, but a new study is predicting just that.

Climate scientists war...

New Method For Trapping CO2 as Solid Rock Could Help to Fight Climate Change

There’s no denying that 2016 has been a year of environmental extremes. Think “extraordinarily” hot Arctic temperatures, rapidly melting glaciers, unprece...

Plants Appear To Be Trying To Rescue Us From Climate Change

For decades, we’ve been pumping billions of tons of harmful greenhouse gases into the air, and for decades plants have been obligingly sucking it back out again. In f...

Activist revisits prison diaries

In a session at the Times Celebrate Bandra Festival, activist Arun Ferreira, who was branded a 'Naxalite' by the state and charged with sedition before being acquitted of a...

The Fact and Fiction of the NASA EmDrive Paper Leak

The EmDrive has been dismissed as “impossible” on more than one occasion because it appears to violate Newton’s Third Law of Motion, which states that for...

Could An Algorithm Replace The Pill?

Cern scientist Elina Berglund developed an app to monitor her own fertility, with impressive results. Now thousands of women are using Natural Cycles to prevent – and...

NASA And FEMA Practiced Emergency Operations For An Asteroid Impact

The year is 2020 and Los Angeles is about to be wiped off the face of the planet. You’ve known this day was coming since the fall of 2016, when the asteroid that is o...

Oil Drilling Caused Killer Earthquake In Boomtime California, Scientists Suspect

Several damaging Los Angeles-area earthquakes of the 1920s and 1930s, including the deadliest ever in southern California, may have been brought on by oil production during...