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| Furious waves |
| Mercilessly unpredictable, quakes defy seismologists, writes Sandra Blakeslee |
| In one sense, the catastrophic earthquake off the coast of Sumatra on December 26 morning was no surprise. After decades of dissecting seismic fault zones, including the long seam between tectonic p... |
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| Thinking unwelcome |
| It?s not mere hard work.
Not sincerity. Not even the depth of knowledge. What m
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| Only persistence begets prize |
| What is the basic requirement for learning science? You just need to have a curi
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| When more is less |
In February last year, Apple followed up its wildly popular iPod music player with the iPod Mini. This smaller, sleeker $250 player could hold 1,000 songs and came in five brushed-aluminum colours. But for only $50 more, you could buy a regular iPod ... | Read..
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| QED: Forgotten harvest
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The commercialisation of high-risk technologies in India has been hampered by lack of funds. The Technology Development Board (TDB), under the Department of Science and Technology, has been providing soft loans to ?technopreneurs? wishing to commercia
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Why Corner
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| Why do dolphins sleep with an eye shut? |
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Respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV, is an extremely common infection in children, second only to the common cold. Yet few parents have ever heard of it, at least not until someone in the family develops a serious infection from it. ... | 
