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Glycerin, a common biodiesel waste product, has become so abundant amid the rise in biofuel use that producers often have to pay to dispose of the chemical. Researchers at Rice University discovered that when combined, E. coli and glycerin produce...
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Internet ScamsThe term Internet Scam or Internet Fraud refers to any type of fraud scheme that uses one or more online services to conduct fraudulent activities....
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SOCIETIES the world over, whatever be their stage of development, from primitive times to modern days, have never been static. Either progressive or retrogressive...
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The sharp rise of crime in Turkey for the last decade is mainly from high growth of population and local immigration. Unemployment and deprivation have caused dense...
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According to research that’s supposed to be published later this year, growing demand for Internet use will soon outstrip the stamina of the infrastructure...
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An impasse in nuclear talks between world powers and Iran would only hurt the West by making Tehran push harder to advance its technology, according to the latest...
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WASHINGTON: After the announcement of the path breaking discovery of presence of water molecules on the lunar surface by Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) on...
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Nokia, the world’s biggest mobile phone maker, issued on Monday a global recall for 14 million chargers made this year because some of them could be faulty.
The...
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Read Only If You Have a Burning Desire for India’s Progress
My friend Gurpreet returned to India after working for twenty five-years in the West. On reading about...
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Human eggs and sperm have been grown in the laboratory in research which could change the face of parenthood.
It paves the way for a cure for infertility and could...
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Turkish website hackers are on rampange defacing government and media websites in developing countries. The latest casuality in the Kampala dispatch (a newsletter) that...
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The Moroccan inventor, Mohamed Nabil Srifi, won the award ‘Made in the Arab World” contest organized by the Arab Science and Technology Foundation award for...
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‘gPhone’ is in news again, This time the news is from India. As speculations suggest that the firm is considering launching own-brand of Android-based...
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The young child scientists of Udalguri district of Assam in India, who had attended the 17th National Children’s Science Congress (NCSC), Assam state session at...
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There’s nothing I love more than having a little downtime and hitting the ‘open highway’. You know what I mean, living life. It’s a chance to...
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Rupert Murdoch has all but declared war on internet search engines for using the content that his (and others’) websites are generating. It seems more than just...
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As competition among telecom networks scales new heights, Orange Uganda has selected Alcatel-Lucent to build, operate and maintain their mobile network to reduce on...
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With change in political scenario ,its seems all equation suddenly gone against Kota in spite of it’s best location,plenty of water,power,educated and intellegent...
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A set of dinosaur footprints uncovered in eastern France and dating from 150 million years ago has been authenticated by scientists as a unique discovery.
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This year’s Nobel prize for medicine goes to the three US researchers who discovered how the body protects the chromosomes housing vital genetic code.
Elizabeth...
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Every now and then, in the democratic entity called India, something unusual happens which keeps one amused for so many days. The feeling is almost the same as some...
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Researchers have discovered a mechanism for the rapid growth seen in infantile hemangioma, the most common childhood tumor.
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Cyborgs are moving out of science-fiction and into the real world. With an increasing number of first world citizens suddenly turning up missing limbs, due to some...
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Everything is supposed to be green these days. Your car, your home, your overall lifestyle. Sorry to say that I really can’t offer any advice on where to find energy...
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IN ECONOMIC theory the winner’s curse refers to the idea that someone who places the winning bid in an auction may have paid too much. Consider, for example, bids to...
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Crystallized carbon has caused all kinds of trouble throughout human history, with the shiny rocks causing (and continuing to cause) bloodshed and strife by their high...
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There may be no such thing as a ’safe’ tan based on ultraviolet (UV) radiation, according to a series of papers published in the October issue of Pigment...
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MIT researchers are developing a new kind of autonomous wheelchair that can learn all about the locations in a given building, and then take its occupant to a given...
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Risking being scooped and having patents refused, some scientists are posting their data online as they produce them.
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North Carolina State University has just been awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant to create the National Research Center for Future Renewable Energy...
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Computer researchers built a tool that demonstrates how hackers could silently turn Facebook users into a powerful zombie army that can attack other websites or scout...
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A new analysis done by researchers from the University of Michigan has determined that captive breeding colonies of a critically endangered Asian vulture, whose numbers...
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Two vaccines against cervical cancer are being widely used without sufficient evidence about whether they are worth their high cost or even whether they will...
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As science races to confront terrorism with new technology, researchers are unveiling a new generation of devices featuring ever-more sophisticated sensors to quickly...
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Who can forget the historical sci-fi moment when the Dr Emmet Brown of “Back to the Future” fame shoved some garbage into his time car to make it run?
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Organisms ranging from humans to plants to the lowliest bacterium use molecules to communicate.
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While scientists and physicians know what happens if you don’t get six to eight hours of shut-eye a night, investigators have long been puzzled about what...
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A study of forensic psychiatric patients in Michigan - half of whom were deemed unfit to stand trial and half of whom were found not guilty through insanity - revealed...
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Like humans with a nose for the best restaurants, roundworms also use their senses of taste and smell to navigate. And now, researchers may have found how a...
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LSU scientist Huiming Bao, along with colleagues from UCLA and China, recently discovered some of the first atmospheric evidence in support of the “Snowball Earth”...
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