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VaxGen reiterates protection to Blacks 
Tangled threads trap pollutantsCERTAIN SPIDERS' webs turn out to be so good at trapping fine particles from the air that they make ideal detectors for toxic pollutants such as heavy metals and dioxins. An eco-toxicologist, Grant Hose, working with the New South Wales ... Must we reciprocate pistons to rotate? FOR MORE than a century, people all over the world have been suffering the heavy weight monster of a reciprocating piston-engine for mobility purposes without asking the question — should one reciprocate pistons in the cylinders eventually ... 
Silicon nanospheres rank among hardest materialsUNIVERSITY OF Minnesota researchers have made the first-ever hardness measurements on individual silicon nanospheres and shown that the nanospheres' hardness falls between the conventional hardness of sapphire and diamond, which are among the ... Receiving alien messages IF WE want to pick up messages from intelligent aliens, we need to listen at the right time. Our best chance of picking up an ET broadcast is when the Earth is closest to being directly between our Sun and the transmitting alien star, say ... Flat lens could enhance object resolution BY CONSTRUCTING artificial materials that break long-standing rules of nature, a University of Toronto researcher has developed a flat lens that could significantly enhance the resolution of imaged objects. This, in turn, could lead to smaller ... 
Metal jewellery triggers contact dermatitisTHAT ITCHY rash you get when you wear earrings might not be because you bought them from the sales rack. You may be one of the million individuals who have allergic contact dermatitis. Look around you and at what you're wearing. You may find the ... 
Quake resistant design, constructionONCE MORE, let us consider the rope swing on the tree. This time let the two ropes with which the cradle is tied to the branch of the tree be different in length. Such a swing also twists even if you sit in the middle. Similarly, in buildings ...
Towards the e-nabled imageThe Net impacts everything — including Adobe's flagship imaging software, `Photoshop' which spawned a couple of web-enabled spin-offs. Anand Parthasarathy finds out why a hardcore professional tool is now aimed at lay us ers.
IN A discovery that is likely to impact fields such as medicine and nanomanufacture, researchers have determined how nature arranges charged particles in a thin layer around a sphere. Understanding this theoretical problem may help reveal ... Drinking during pregnancy affects embryo's face THE PHYSICAL moulding that determines what we will look like may remain open to change much longer than had been thought, according to research by University of California, San Francisco scientists. While this prolonged period means the ... Cause of kidney stones refuted NEW RESEARCH into the origin of kidney stone formation published in the Journal of Clinical Investigation may well change the direction of the most basic level of research in that area. The study, conducted at Indiana University School ... Clues to relationships between humans, microorganisms RESEARCHERS AT Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have completed sequencing the genome of Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron, one of the most prevalent bacteria that live in the human intestine. The results appeared in ... Improved polycarbonate resin GE PLASTICS has announced the development of a dramatically improved version of resin — LEXAN polycarbonate resin. The new resin, builds on the mechanical properties of standard polycarbonate, without diminishing its clarity, by adding ...
Vikram Sarabhai (1919-1971): Architect of Indian space programmeVIKRAM AMBALAL Sarabhai was born at Ahmedabad in an affluent family of progressive industrialists. He had his early education in a private school, `Retreat' run by his parents on Montessori lines. This atmosphere injected into the young boy the ...
Early-bearing brinjal with small, round fruitsSCIENTISTS AT the Division of Vegetable Crops, Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI), New Delhi, have developed an early bearing brinjal variety that produces oval-round fruits with attractive purple colour. This variety has been recently ...
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