Dinesh C. Sharma’s ‘Indian Innovation - 100 ideas that transformed India’ is an inspiring book documenting all key innovations post-independence in India.
Not more than two decades ago, I played with snails on rainy days and would see them crawling abundantly on plants. My friends and I would collect them in glass bottles, treating them as pets.
It appears that snails have almost vanished from our gardens. Lush green landscapes and trees have dwindled to become a few patches of green separated by tall buildings in between.
Study finds that considering multiple social interactions as a whole instead of individual interactions helps identify the potential queen of a wasp colony.
Researchers from IIT B root for restoring Madurai’s historical water tank system to address the region’s water woes
Tropical savannas, replete with large expanses of grasslands, are often misclassified as wastelands.
Researchers find a greater abundance but an altered epiphyte community in selectively logged forests
![Noisy vehicles cause distress to animals. [picture credits leopard and safari vehicle via Wikimedia Commons]](https://researchmatters.in/sites/default/files/styles/large_front_800x320/public/leopard_vehicle.png?itok=3fypbEoz "Not just us, animals too face the brunt of noisy vehicles")
A study finds that electric vehicles are less intrusive to animals during safaris.
A study finds that the rapidly expanding land use of Mumbai is driving the region’s remaining wildlife into the remnant forest fringes.
A porous liquid composite can convert adsorbed carbon dioxide from industrial effluents to calcium carbonate.
