Scientists find way to boost crop yield

Last Updated: Thursday, October 10, 2013, 23:02

Scientists have found a way to improve yields of some crops by understanding their evolutionary process that made them significantly more productive than others over the years, a study said.

Foreign publishers, Delhi University battle it out in court

Last Updated: Thursday, October 10, 2013, 09:17

A cramped, one-room shop tucked away in Delhi University seems an unlikely battleground for a publishing war that, academics warn, threatens quality of and access to education in the world`s second most populous nation.

`Cascade of events` led to Cambrian explosion 520 mn years ago

Last Updated: Friday, September 20, 2013, 12:19

A new study has suggested that the explosion of animal life on Earth around 520 million years ago took place because of a combination of interlinked factors rather than a single underlying cause.

Scientists prove `birds of a feather flock together`

Last Updated: Wednesday, September 18, 2013, 11:51

Scientists have found that reserved male great tit birds have been found to seek the company of similar birds to themselves proving the age old saying- ` Birds of a feather, flock together`.

Tail shortening enabled birds to develop versatile legs 100 mn yrs ago

Last Updated: Wednesday, August 14, 2013, 13:30

A new study has claimed that radical shortening of bird`s bony tails, over 100 million years ago, enabled them to develop versatile legs, which gave them an evolutionary edge.

Obama`s top 11 bureaucrats all Oxford alumni: Study

Last Updated: Saturday, July 20, 2013, 15:52

US President Barack Obama`s inner circle has 11 top bureaucrats who attended England`s most prestigious Oxford University, a new study has revealed.

Driverless cars set to be tested on UK roads

Last Updated: Tuesday, July 16, 2013, 21:14

The first ever trial of self-driving cars on Britain`s busy roads will take place later this year.

Indian student scores triple hundred in English FC match

Last Updated: Thursday, July 4, 2013, 19:52

Oxford University`s Indian origin student Samridh Agarwal cracked a magnificent triple-century against Cambridge in a first-class match at the FP Fenner`s ground in Cambridge.

Salman Khurshid compares China with ATM machine

Last Updated: Friday, June 14, 2013, 21:52

External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid on Friday compared a "business like" China to an ATM machine while he described India as a "softly-softly" nation which stressed on long-term development partnerships.

Most controversial pages on Wikipedia revealed

Last Updated: Tuesday, June 4, 2013, 11:05

The most controversial topics on Wikipedia that people argue about the most around the world have been revealed.

300 mn-yr-old crab footprints found

Last Updated: Monday, April 8, 2013, 15:51

A 10-year-old Oxford schoolboy has discovered an extremely rare fossil of footprints of a pair of mating horseshoe crabs, dating back to more than 300 million years.

Now, 3D printer that can create tissue-like materi

Last Updated: Friday, April 5, 2013, 14:25

Oxford University scientists have developed a custom-built programmable 3D printer that can create materials with several of the properties of living tissues.