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Science & Technology
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Icy blue on Planet Red
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| Images of what looks like a ‘frozen sea’ on Mars, have given rise to hopes of finding many frozen life-forms below the dust covered ice. |
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No greenhouse effect on Mars
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Satellite navigation: Technology and trends
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Tobacco: more than just smoke
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| Does tobacco remind you of smoke-filled rooms and choked lungs? Think again, because tobacco is a good transgenic crop, a source of vital pharmaceutical and agro-industrial products and also an eco-friendly pesticide. |
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Science Interactive : rusty nails and tetanus
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Neurons in lab dishes
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Mass burial in a snow coffin
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| Avalanches are large sheets of snow sliding down mountain slopes which can bury
below them a hundred lives at one go. |
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Creating heart muscle cells
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A new celestial compass
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Attempting to test the theory of gravity
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| A project set up by the California and Massachusetts Institutes of Technology is trying to measure a length-change of the order of the width of the atom, to test
Einstein’s theory of gravity. |
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Twenty five years of glory spun in silk
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| Scientists at the Karnataka State Sericulture Research and Development Institute (KSSRDI) have developed a range of new products like mulberry tea and organic silk besides indigenous breeding of three new silk worm races. |
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A galaxy with no stars
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