Month: April 2018

FILE PHOTO - Robert Lighthizer speaks after being sworn in as U.S. Trade Representative in Washington

US Makes First Public Comments Against India’s Price Cap on Medical Devices

Anoo Bhuyan 18/04/2018

The US has announced it will review import benefits...

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Impact Factors Fail in Evaluating Scientists. Why Does the UGC Still Use Them?

Thomas Manuel 18/04/2018

The journal impact factor has numerous flaws, which makes...

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Scientists Engineer Enzyme Capable of Breaking Down Plastic Faster

Kate Kelland, Stuart McDill 17/04/2018

The enzyme is able to digest polyethylene terephthalate, or...

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Down in the Dumps: The Tale of Delhi’s Waste Pickers

Amita Bhaduri 17/04/2018

Waste pickers provide services that benefit the environment yet...

There is perhaps no large wild animal that dies unnaturally in such large numbers in single events as do elephants due to collisions with trains. Credit: walterjenny86/pixabay

What Are We Doing to Keep More Elephants From Being Killed by Trains?

Neha Sinha 17/04/2018

What we do now to mitigate the impact of...

Farmers work in paddy fields at Bandipora, north of Srinagar. Credit: Danish Ismail/Reuters

Months of Dry Weather Leave Kashmir’s Paddy Farmers Struggling

Mudasir Ahmad 17/04/2018

The state government has asked farmers not to cultivate...

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The Fishy Problem of Underwater Noise Pollution

Adam Crane, Maud Ferrari 17/04/2018

Nowadays, the underwater soundscape includes the roar of motors,...