Weed energy
Electricity can be generated from a creeper plant, as an experiment in Madhya Pradesh has demonstrated
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A foreign vocabulary
Why are we, as a nation, so non serious about following through on actions? Is it the curse of a foreign language in which we act, but not think, that we pick up words and so believe the deed, too,
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Chasing Mercury
Of all the planets in our solar system, Mercury has been the most elusive it took astronomers almost 14 centuries to predict its orbit correctly. The latest sighting of the planet, called its transit, occurred earlier this month.
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MONEYMAKERS
algae wonder: Hyderabad-based New Ambadi Estates Pvt Ltd is planning to launch in July-August a cosmetic using the algae spirulina. The product can be used to treat allergies, remove pimples and
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Beware the technology bait
JOINT implementation was the main point of discussion at the recent meeting of the intergovernmental committee on climate change in Geneva. The idea of joint implementation has been promoted
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W h ither Indian science?
High profile science need not be the cornerstone of Indian science policy. What is required is to give more thrust to existing methodologies and increase peoples' awareness in scientific developments
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Moneymakers
CLEAN AND SAFE: Cashing in on the growing requirement for clean water, the Pune-based Thermax Ltd is setting up a joint venture company with Culligan Water Technologies Ltd of the US. The new venture
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Living with nature
Urban living ought to aim towards the sustainable symbiosis of nature and architecture
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Energy management needs top priority
It does not matter whether the assumptions made by the Tata Energy Research Institute are accurate or whether they will hold true. What matters is that TERI"s predictions of the country"s energy
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Beyond oil
Energy security will not come with more drilling. The faster we realise this, the better
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Satellite smash ups
Ariane 5's nosediving end threatens to terminate Europe's leadership of the commercial satellite industry and push forth other contenders like the US, waiting in the wings
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Moneymakers
STRAWBERRY PACT: Mumbai-based Gemini Agritech Ltd and Israel-based Plastro Gvat have entered into a technical arrangement for the supply of strawberry cultivation technology and support on a
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Save thy skin
Exposure to sunlight for even the shortest possible duration is now being seen as the worst enemy of those wishing to flaunt a fair and lovely skin. A new but controversial chemical is being hailed as a saviour for those who want that bask in the sun, b
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A Keck for the specks
The faintest and the most distant objects in the heavens no longer remain invincible with the introduction of the powerful Keck Telescope, the biggest optical instrument of its kind in the world, into the arsenal of astronomers. An improved version, the K
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Elusive no more
A Japanese experiment in thefield of neutrino detection has come as manna for physicists and cosmologists, opening before them immense possibilities offinally disentangling some of the most enduringpuzzles which hamper our understanding of nature
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Spatial success
With the latest launch of another remote sensing satellite, Indian space scientists aim to carve out a niche in the world market for satellite data... and beat Uncle Sam to it
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Rice bowls shall brim
A new and healthier version of rice promises to produce and provide more for Asia's teeming millions
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New Technologies for thinking caps
The human instinct and obsession to explore, and discover in all ways, shaped the world we know. Humans have visited virtually every desolate face on the face of Earth, have lifted off the planet to
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Just jute
Jute is a true blue environmentally benign product
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'Mass housing is a self defeating concept'
SUHASINI AYER GUIGAN is an architect concerned with issues of rural development and habitat. Holding a degree in architecture from the Delhi based School of Planning and Architecture, she has spent nearly a decade working on earth construction, and is cur