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Evidence of water ice on 24 Themis asteroid's surface Asteroids may not be the dark, dry, lifeless chunks of rock scientists have long thought of Cancer: HPV test scores over smear HPV is a common sexually transmitted infection seen most often in young women and adolescents. There are more than 100 types of HPV — some cause only genital warts, but others cause cancers including cervical cancer.Human ... Over 40 per cent of Bolivia desertified Over 40 per cent of the Bolivian territory is affected by desertification caused by climate change, population increase and indiscriminate forest felling, the Science and Technology Ministry said recently.The ministry said in a ... Flying reptile fossil is that of new pterosaur genus, species A newly identified reptile is only the second ornithocheirid ever documented in North America, says Timothy Myers, a postdoctoral fellow in the Huffington Department of Earth Sciences at Southern Methodist University in Dallas.A 95 ... Massive ocean current discovered The current has a volume of 40 Amazon riversIt helps find how much heat, carbon the ocean soaks up Martian life quest stymied by Earth microbes? Bacteria common to spacecraft may be able to survive the harsh environs of Mars long enough to inadvertently contaminate Mars with terrestrial life according to research published in the April 2010 issue of the journal Applied and ... SNAPSHOTS 
Brown rice is healthier than white riceRice, a source of fibre, is healthy. But, not all rice is equally nutritious, and brown rice might have an advantage over white by protecting from high blood pressure and ... 
New method to extend the shelf-life of grapesAn effective new method that combines hot water treatment, rachis removal, and modified atmosphere packaging to extend the shelf life of grapes has been developed by U.S. Department of Agriculture ... Harvesting power from generator in shoe sole A new technology that harvests power from a small generator embedded in the sole of a shoe is based on new voltage regulation circuits that efficiently convert a piezoelectric charge into usable ... 
Lightning patterns shed light on cloud-fire linkIn a new study, researched data on lightning patterns in the Amazon show how clouds are affected by particulate matter emitted by the fires used for slash-and-burn foresting ... 
Mountainous terrain doubles heat increasesThe future effects of global warming could be significantly changed over very small distances by local air movements in complex or mountainous terrain — perhaps doubling or even tripling the temperature rises in some ... 
Measuring 'wettability' with greater precisionWettability is the degree to which a liquid either spreads out over a surface or forms into droplets. A new method improves the resolution of images of droplets obtained for such measurements by a factor of ...
FARMER'S NOTEBOOK Bicycle inspired plougher and weeder gains popularity More than 200 farmers are using the multi-purpose weeder today Controlling rice stem borer Rice stem borer causes damage by reducing the number of tillers and yield. Approximately six major species of stem borer cause significant damage to rice cultivation.In Cauvery deltaic region four species of stem borer that is ... FARM QUERY New method Is there any method to save my banana plantations growing in a dry belt near Ramanathapuram?A. Jesudasan Tamil NaduNearly 40 villages in and around Tirunelveli district use Panchagavya, an organic growth promoter ...
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