Despite successful bans on the veterinary drug diclofenac in Nepal and parts of India, a decade-long undercover investigation reveals that toxic alternatives like flunixin and nimesulide are rapidly replacing it, posing a renewed existential threat to the region’s critically endangered vulture populations.

Technology

Mumbai

Researchers from IIT Bombay install a solar microgrid with a hybrid storage system in a high altitude site in Sikkim.

Mumbai

Researchers from IIT Bombay have developed a simple and novel sensor to find out the level of antibiotics present in food and water

Mumbai

Study proposes a systematic change to India’s wastewater treatment infrastructure to improve the quality of water and minimise environmental impact. 

Mumbai

Scientists have devised a novel approach to combine memory and computation units.

Bengaluru

Researchers propose a self-consistent method to explain the charged particle bombardment on the Earth.

Mumbai

Researchers have demonstrated the reciprocal relationship of electricity and magnetism over a thin magnetic film.

Mumbai

Researchers probe properties of the new material, say better for micro- and nanodevices. 

Bengaluru

Researchers have demonstrated an improved method of capturing images through fog.

Mumbai

Researchers have sped up the study of light-matter interaction on specially-engineered surfaces.

Mumbai

Researchers have discovered the shortest duration gamma ray burst accompanied by a supernova.

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