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Project Exoplanet brings world together
Mumbai: Fourteen exoplanets have been discovered since the year began while the figure for 2009 was 84, said eminent astronomer Malcolm Longair, of the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge.
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- 08/03/2010
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- Times Of India (New Delhi)
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‘Seek, test and treat’ slows HIV
Treating HIV infection aggressively before symptoms appear could help to control the spread of the disease, according to data presented at a retroviral conference. Independent studies in Canada, the United States and Africa support the strategy in both the developed and developing world.
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- Feb 2010
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- Nature Vol: 463 Issue: 7284 pp: 1006
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Estimation of PCB stocks, emissions, and urban fate: Will our policies reduce concentrations and exposure?
PCBs, used to manage risks from the flammability of dielectric fluids and to increase the durability of elastic sealants, had declining environmental concentrations after legislation banning new production was passed during the 1970s and 1980s in Europe and North America.
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- Feb 2010
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- Environmental Science & Technology pp: 1-7
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Identifying new persistent and bioaccumulative organics among chemicals in commerce
The goal of this study was to identify commercial chemicals that might be persistent and bioaccumulative (P&B) and that were not being considered in current Great Lakes, North American, and Arctic contaminant measurement programs.
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- Feb 2010
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- Environmental Science & Technology pp: 1-9
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Third party mechanism mooted on testing GM food
A well-known genetic scientist from Canada has demanded that the Governments and corporates promoting genetically modified food should evolve a third party insurance mechanism to protect the long-term interests of the people.
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- 16/02/2010
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- Business Line (New Delhi)
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Vancouver world’s most livable city: Survey
Canadian city of Vancouver has been named as the world's most livable city, while Delhi and Mumbai are being placed at 113th and 117th position, respectively, in an annual survey of livability that assesses living conditions in 140 global cities.
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- 15/02/2010
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- Tribune (New Delhi)
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Homeopathy: Overdosing on nothing
An international protest against homeopathy aims to demonstrate the truth – that there's literally nothing in it, says Martin Robbins. AT 10.23 am on 30 January, 2010 more than 300 activists in the UK, Canada, Australia and the US will take part in a mass homeopathic "overdose".
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- Jan 2010
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- New Scientist Issue: 2745 pp: 22-23
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From waste to biofuel: Bugs the way
Common Bacteria Tweaked To Digest Sugars From Biomass To Churn Out Green Diesel
Washington: Researchers have genetically engineered one of the most common bacteria on the planet — E coli — to digest simple sugars from plant waste and turn it into valuable biofuel.
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- 29/01/2010
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- Times Of India (New Delhi)
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Canada to maintain adequate uranium supply
Asserting that Canada has vast reserves of uranium with two third of oil reserves, Barnala-born Canadian MP Devinder Shory has claimed that Canadian Prime Minister has inked supply of adequate quantity of uranium for its use in promoting technology in India for civil purpose.
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- 07/01/2010
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- Tribune (New Delhi)
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Polluted air may raise risk of pneumonia among the elderly
Air pollution may double the risk tha an elderly person will be hospitalise for pneumonia.
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- 02/01/2010
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- Indian Express (New Delhi)
