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Powerful rechargeable battery The new miniature thin-film fuel cell power source provides portable electrical power for a range of consumer electronics. With this a cell phone battery could last 300 per cent longer, extending standby time from four days to two weeks, and talk tim e from six hours to two days. More Free access to medical journals INDIA IS among the developing countries which have been excluded, at least for the time being, from a World Health Organisation (WHO) led initiative to make more than a 1,000 leading biomedical journals available free or at greatly reduced cost ... More 
More to making ice cream than mere hand crankingSWEET AND cold with a wonderful mouth feel, ice cream is an American favourite, but far from the soft, icy product produced by hand-cranked freezers, today's commercial ice cream is a complex product designed and engineered for the best ... More Waveform synthesiser ACCORDING TO a National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland press release, researchers here have shown sine-wave synthesis on three superconducting IC chips with palladium-gold barrier junctions. The chips were used ... More 
CNC toroidal winding machineWHEN IT comes to high technology machines for making electrical components, Indian companies usually rely on foreign vendors. Unfortunately, these imported machines are expensive and beyond the reach of small-scale component makers. But there ... More Tether for water channels found A TEAM of scientists from the Johns Hopkins University and elsewhere has discovered that a protein involved in muscle-wasting diseases plays a role in moving water in and out of brain cells. The finding opens new avenues of inquiry for ... More
Duration, amount of supplement intake unknownMicronutrients help build the immune system. Excess intake of nutrients compromises the immune system similar to being malnutritioned. However, there is no supplement which can be taken for a long time without harming the body. More Promoting growth in pre-term infants A DUKE University Medical Centre study has shown that exposing babies born before 31 weeks of gestation to cycled light helps them grow faster. And this latest study has identified that no short-term advantages keeps infants in total near ... More Mystery behind type 2 diabetes WHAT DO healthy adolescents and people with type 2 diabetes have in common? Both grow resistant to insulin, according to a new study by researchers at the Keck School of Medicine of USC and the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB). Over ... More
IN THE first of this two-part series on novel approaches to cancer detection and treatment, we discussed two early warning methods of detection. One was by Dr. B.Vogelstein and associates of the Johns Hopkins Medical School and the other by Drs. ... More
Semi-dwarf high yielding riceRICE BREEDERS at the Tamil Nadu Rice Research Institute (TRRI), Aduthurai in Thanjavur district have developed a high-yielding rice variety with long, slender, white grains. This improved variety was recently released by the Tamil Nadu ... More Fly ash for acidic soils Scientists have established and successfully demonstrated gainful utilisation of fly ash as modifier of agricultural soil and as a source of some plant nutrients. More
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