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| Typhoon year |
| Homage to Einstein takes many forms, even acrobatics on a cycle, writes Dennis Overbye |
| What are you
up to, you frozen whale, you smoked, dried, canned piece
of soul?” So did Albert Einstein, then a 26-year-old
patent clerk in Bern, Switzerland, begin a letter to his
pal Conrad Habicht in the spring of 1905. ... |
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| An eerie experience |
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small probe stranded on a far-away and hostile world operates
for two precious hours at a temperature of 300 degrees
below zero Fahrenheit, desperately transmitting information
to its mother ship before that spacecraft disappears below
the horizon ... | Read.. |
| When radiation is a saviour |
| Although India
is one of the largest producers of onion, lentils, cereals
and vegetables, an average Indian does not consume much
of those food items. And poverty is not the only deterrent
to his or her access to them; rather, it’s the post-harvest
decay ... | Read.. |
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| A gun to kill 007 |
Since lasers were invented more than four decades ago, they have been pointed at lots of things ? PowerPoint presentations, CDs and bar codes on grocery labels, to name just a few. But there have always been incidents where the devices were aimed whe ... | Read..
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| QED: Guinea pigs for free?
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It?s being touted as India?s chance of catching up with ?cutting-edge technology? in drug discovery. Private players involved in clinical trials have argued that recruiting patients from India for clinical trials of candidate drugs developed abroad wi
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| Recommended:
A killer insect that made history
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LOCUST
Jeffrey Lockwood
Basic Books; £ 25 ... | Read.. |
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Mobile phones have become as much a part of the 21st-century childhood as pocket money, trainers and downloaded pop music. The scale of juvenile phone use made the recent statement from Sir William Stewart, head of the National Radiological Protectio ... | 
