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Thursday, September 18, 2003
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Seeing colours in numbers A faulty gene allows leakage of information between the two adjacent areas responsible for seeing colours and identifying numbers. This aberration makes some people see colours in numbers. 
Is erosion helping the Himalayas to grow?DOES EROSION, which occurs over years or decades, influence mountain-building, which requires eons? Do surface forces like wind and rivers contribute to tectonic shifts miles below the earth's surface? Are erosion and tectonics combining to ... New source of environmental pollution? PLATINUM, PALLADIUM, ruthenium, osmium, rhodium and iridium are called platinum group elements (PGE). These metals find their applications in diverse fields such as jewellery, industry and pharmaceuticals. Particularly platinum and palladium find ... 
Platelet refrigeration may ease shortages for transfusionsA NEW method for treating and chilling blood platelets may prolong their shelf-life by a week or more, helping to ease chronic shortages that endanger patients needing platelet transfusions. These findings appear in the journal Science. ... Coal-eating bacteria aid methane recovery SCIENTISTS AT the U.S Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory are exploring the use of bacteria to increase the recovery of methane, a clean natural gas, from coal beds, and to decontaminate water produced during the ... Bringing light into line LED BY University of Texas electrical and computer engineering professor Ted Sargent and Carleton University chemistry professor Wayne Wang, a team has developed a material for processing information using light. The material combines microscopic ... IT TRENDS 
A `Desi' tool for vehicle trackingSometimes the most workable solution may not be the most high tech. Anand Parthasarathy reports on an interesting new system that might help track India's three million road transport carriers. Alert over inkjet forgeries FIERCE COMPETITION in the inkjet printer market has made digital colour printers so cheap and the print quality so high that a £100 printer can produce fake banknotes that pass for the real thing in dim light, says a report in New ... Goodbye mouse, keyboard, phone number voice is taking over Advantage of voice control is that it requires virtually no physical space as we always carry our voices. Pioneer of Tamil Nadu forestry Planting of wattle on a large scale was initiated by V. S. Krishnaswamy in the Upper Palanis. Wattle bark is an important tanning material in leather industry and it was early imported from South Africa and the price was too high. Phosphate solubilisation in rice ecosystem PHOSPHORUS IS an essential nutrient for plant growth. Phosphorus is found in plenty in soils in unavailable form. The micro-organisms viz., bacteria, fungi, actinomycetes and blue algae are known to solubilize unavailable form of phosphorus in ...
Boron, a micronutrient for boosting yieldsFIELD CROPS require some important micronutrients in addition to the major nutrients (nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium) for sound health and good performance. They are called micronutrients as they are needed in small quantities as compared ...
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