S Suresh Ramanan

Zoologists have discovered a new vine snake species from the eastern State of Odisha. A new taxon of vine snake is being found after...

Involving local communities and protecting their livelihoods may be a better strategy for conservation of snow leopards, a new study has found. Snow leopards are...

When Rohini Godbole, a theoretical physicist at the Bangalore-based Indian Institute of Science, was conferred Padma Shri this year, few outside scientific circles knew...

Scientists at the Bharathiar University engaged in studying the ecology of soil microbes that colonize plant roots have isolated a fungus that can enhance...

Several locations in India are known to have a potential for production of geothermal energy. A new analysis of available data on all such...

Scientists at Coimbatore-based Tamil Nadu Agricultural University (TNAU) have found that a plant growth promoting rhizobacteria called Bacillus amyloliquefaciens can be used to fight...

Scientists at the Pune-based National Chemical Laboratory (NCL) have isolated a bacterial strain from rotten pomegranate which promises to help produce bacterial cellulose on...

Blood fruit is a woody climber and it is very popular among tribes in the Northeastern states, Andaman and Nicobar islands and Bangladesh. The...