To save the planet, first save elephants
Wiping out all of Africa’s elephants could accelerate Earth’s climate crisis by allowing 7% more damaging greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, scientists say. But conserving forest elephants may reverse
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NET WORK
Radio gaga If you are curious about the history of radiology then you should not miss the site at http.//www.xray.hmc. psu.edu/rci/contents_4.html. This contains a philatelic history of radiology.
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Starch watch
Scientists at Oxford University, UK, have found a way to increase the starch content of potato, maize and rice. Starch is the single largest energy source in human diet. The researchers have
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Germ warfare
Oral vaccines could soon be available for rotavirus infection a major cause of diarrhoea
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A robot for the deep
Scientists in the US have developed a device that would help search toxic wastes at seabed
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The truth about frogs
Scientists in the US are trying to find out the reason for deformities in frogs
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A better antidote?
tuberculosis (tb), the giant killer, may be effectively contained with the help of a microbe Mycobacterium vaccae, which is closely related to the bacterium that causes the disease. Researchers
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Cold deserts
to put a brake on vanishing Himalayan glaciers and shrinking snow cover, a 'Society of Indian Glaciologists' was recently proposed by eminent environmental scientists and glaciologists all over the
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Fear is the key
Charles Darwin spent 20 years perfecting his ideas on evolution and how it operates. What motivated him to channelise his energy and focus for so long on his work? Thomas J Barloon and Russell
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The other side of nitrogen
Excess of any thing is bad, and nitrogen is no exception. The benevolent gas is actually responsible for immense ecological damage
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Space science, biology and politics
NASA hopes to solve its resource crunch by putting forward a case that uses space science for explaining the origins of life