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Managing high level nuclear waste
The public wrongly believes that the vitrification process is storage in glass containers
Origin of orb web
INTRICATE AERIAL webs (called orb webs) have been used by Araneoid spiders to capture flying insects since the Early Cretaceous period (about 110 million years ago). This fact has been confirmed by the discovery of fossilised insects trapped ...
Insights into silicon semiconductors
WHILE EXCEPTIONALLY tiny semiconductors possess the ability to enable a multitude of complex functions, making them an invaluable ingredient in electronics technology, knowledge of semiconductor nanostructures is still relatively young; and ...
SPEAKING OF SCIENCE
A land where the poor are obese
The makings of a diabetes epidemic are all there, unless we do something about it now
Increasing trend to woo organic food shoppers
Demand for organic milk regularly outstrips supply
Agriculture

FARMER'S NOTEBOOK
Coconut, livestock integration fetches higher income for ryots
Recycling organic residues proves economically rewarding
Managing footrot in black pepper
FOOTROT CAUSED by the fungus, Phytophthora capscici, is a serious disease of black pepper. The disease is characterised by quick wilting of vines and can assume devastating proportions in poorly attended gardens. Disease ...

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