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INTERNET / BROADBAND CONNECTIVITY BECOMES REALITY
Last mile connection goes wireless
Broadband with a bandwidth of 256Kbytes will solve the problems commonly encountered with last mile connection speed. Wireless technology will allow customers to use the net at speeds never seen before, says R. Prasad.


3D TV, ultra fast computers
IN AN advance that might do for television and computers what the transistor did for electronics, a team of researchers at the University of California in Los Angeles has devised a means of directing molecular action of crystalline materials with ...
Strong, eco-friendly plastic foams
OHIO STATE University engineers have found a way to make dense plastic foam that may essentially replace solid plastic in the future. The engineers have also developed innovative manufacturing techniques to eliminate the use of ...
Health & Medicine
Growing engineered blood vessels
For the first time, researchers have proved that human embryonic stem cells can develop into the endothelial cells that blood vessels are composed of. They then isolated these endothelial cells and showed that they do indeed form vessel-like struct ures both in a culture dish and in a living animal.

Speaking Of Science
Why so hot on Bt cotton?
THE GENETIC engineering Advisory Committee (GEAC) of the Government has at long last approved the marketing of Bt cotton in the country. With this step, India has made a tentative entry into the age of agricultural biotechnology in a significant ...

Agriculture
Bush-type cowpea with high yield
SCIENTISTS AT the Department of Pulses, Centre for Plant Breeding and Genetics, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University (TNAU), Coimbatore, have developed a bush-type cowpea with high yield potential. The short-duration variety with field tolerance ...

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