Year: 2016

A field of sugarcane plants. Credit: scotnelson/Flickr, CC BY 2.0

An Agro-Ecological Way Through the Sugarcane Problem – Before We Quickly Resort to GM Crops

Radha Gopalan 12/05/2016

Given the challenges of climate change, deep agrarian distress...

Gilead’s Hepatitis C Drug Patent Approved by Indian Patent Office

Deena Beasley 11/05/2016

The Indian Patent Office's decision marks a setback for...

Record 1,284 Planets Added to List of Worlds Beyond Solar System

Irene Klotz 11/05/2016

Scientists announced the largest single finding of planets to...

Dubai. Credit: pisaphotography/shutterstock

UAE Wants to Build a ‘Rainmaking Mountain’ – Are We All OK With That?

Tim Kruger 10/05/2016

Even if the rainmaking mountain is not itself geoengineering,...

Credit: Xavi/Flickr, CC BY 2.0

What Wiped Out the Dinosaurs?

Ronak Gupta 10/05/2016

In the brimming potpourri of factors that encouraged the...

After mating, the male of Darwin's bark spider (Caerostris darwini) chews on his palps. The emasculation presumably renders the eunuch more aggressive, being better at fighting off rival males that might also want to mate with 'his' female. Credit: Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts

Within the Ritualistic Arena of Spider Sex, Male Darwin’s Bark Spiders Add a New Twist

Janaki Lenin 10/05/2016

None of self-mutilation, cannibalism, bondage and genital plugging among...

The remains of one of six partially eroded islands in the nation of Solomon Islands

Rising Seas Submerge Five Pacific Islands, Find Researchers

Sebastien Malo 10/05/2016

The submerged islands were part of the Solomon Islands,...