New degree in Sustainable Agriculture launched at Hertfordshire

The BSc (Hons) in Sustainable Agriculture and Food Security has been designed around internationally recognized expertise and facilities at four partner institutions all lo...

CEO of Tyson Foods Inc. to donate $3.2 million to Institute of Agriculture

Donnie Smith, CEO of Tyson Foods Inc. in Arkansas, and his wife, Terry, have committed to give $3.2 million to the University of Tennessee, creating the Donald and Terry Sm...

Climate Change May Cause Trillions in Damage to World’s Coastal Regions

New research predicts that coastal regions may face massive increases in damages from storm surge flooding over the course of the 21st century.

According to the stu...

TERI university honours Shabana Azmi, Anshu Jain

Noted actor Shabana Azmi, Deutsche Bank Co-CEO Anshu Jain and Nobel laureate Yuan-Tseh Lee were among some of those who were conferred with honorary doctorates at the sixth...

Antarctica’s collapsing ice shelves may disappear in 200 years

A number of floating ice shelves in Antarctica are at risk of disappearing entirely in the next 200 years, as global warming reduces their snow cover, a new study has warne...

Viral infections may soon be history

Washington: Scientists have identified a mechanism how some viruses protect themselves from the immune system’s efforts to stop infections.

This new finding c...

Pakistan ranks eighth among countries hit by climate change

FAISALABAD: High resistant crops are need of the hour to fight climate changes as Pakistan is facing its worst impact and has been ranked eighth in climate change-hit count...

Ray of hope for HIV patients

New York: In a significant discovery, researchers have identified a new protein that holds promise for the next-generation of anti-HIV drugs.

The team at University...

Who said playing games is waste of time?

Throughout the last twenty or thirty years, parents around the world have been putting limitations on the amount of time their children spend playing games. Many a times, p...