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| Back to the beginning |
| Experts gather in the city to discuss what happened immediately after the Big Bang. Pathik Guha reports |
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laureate physicist Steven Weinberg provided scientists
with a wonderful credo by commenting that ?the effort
to understand the Universe is one of the very few things
that lifts human life above the level of farce, and gives
it some of the grace of tragedy.? One has only to see
the experts in action to realise how difficult those efforts
can be. For example, nearly 300 of them from all over
the world will gather at the joint campus of the Variable
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| Think like einstein |
| Albert Einstein?s achievements in his annus mirabilis a hundred years ago
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| Complex machine |
Whoever said “technology marches on” must
have been kidding. Technology doesn’t march;
it sprints, dashes and zooms. That relentless pace
renders our storage media obsolete with appalling
speed: 5 1/4-inch floppies, zip discs or whatever
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| QED: Leprosy, an enigma
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The ?last mile? in the race to eradicate leprosy may not be truly so. Public health experts have said that the goal is now within reach in India. At a meeting, organised by the International Leprosy Union (ILU) in New Delhi last week, experts once aga
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| Recommended:
Animal clue to autistic mind
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ANIMALS IN TRANSLATION
Temple Grandin
Scribner; $ 25 ... | Read.. |
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Why Corner
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| Why does a slice of apple turn reddish? |
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Nathan Rowman was in his late 80s when he was hospitalised
for a suspected heart problem. Seemingly overnight, Rowman,
who had been running his own business and going to work
every day, became so confused that his children considered
putting him in a ... | 
