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Emulate spiders' techniques, make better materialsRESEARCHERS AT University of California LosAngeles (ULCA) believe that the secret to creating stronger, better materials may be solved by studying an unlikely source: the common spider. Engineers can improve the design and processing of ... Iron pillar and nano powder THE IRON pillar near Qutub Minar at New Delhi is in the news, thanks to the research by Prof. R. Balasubramaniam of IIT, Kanpur and his team of metallurgists. The pillar is said to be 1,600 years old. A protective layer of `misawite' — a ... Quake-proof design and construction SHAKING OF ground on the Earth's surface is a net consequence of motions caused by seismic waves generated by energy release at each material point within the three-dimensional volume that ruptures at the fault. These waves arrive at various ... Molecular electronics: A new technology FROM MICRO electronics the technology is moving to molecular electronics, which Science selected as the ``Breakthrough of the year'' in its issue of 21 December 2001. The first breakthrough occurred in 1958, when Jack Kilby invented the ... Neuropeptide — role in pain sensation A NEUROPEPTIDE whose loss is believed responsible for narcolepsy, a disease characterized by sudden sleep attacks, also appears to play a role in the modulation of pain sensation, a study by a Yale researcher has found. The findings, published as ... Terrestrial germs in space A METHOD to fight terrestrial germs, which manage to enter the Earth's orbit has been developed by Russian scientists. If implemented, there will be no place on-board a spacecraft. where micro-organisms can freely live and breed. According to ...
I WANT to let you in on a free 40- second video that you must watch on the incredible feat of the common crow. Go now to a computer, access .org on the internet, and you will get to the journal Science. Go to the archives lines and ask ...
Efficient weeding machine for caneFIELD EVALUATION tests at the Sugarcane Breeding Institute (SBI), Coimbatore, showed that a new tractor-drawn intercultivator could effectively remove weeds in between the rows without any damage to the crop over a large area in a day. "This ...
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