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| Aliens on earth |
| Filmmaker James Cameron wants to make science ?cool? again. Andrew C. Revkin reports |
| James
Cameron, one of the masters of celluloid science fiction,
has become fixated with what might be called ‘reality
science’ to the point where he has melded science
and movie-making into Aliens of the Deep, a 3-D,
Imax-scale exploration of geophysics and extreme biology
at the bottom of the sea. ... | Read.. |
| Copper can tackle N-waste problem |
| India’s nuclear scientists
may have lessons to draw from the relics left behind
by the nation’s earliest metal-makers who produced
axes, chisels and bangles from copper over 3,800
years ago ... | Read.. |
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| Timeless truths |
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people don’t even think this exists,” says Erik
Demaine, turning in his hands an elaborately folded paper
structure. The intricately pleated sail-like form swooshes
gracefully in ... | Read.. |
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| Forward to the past |
Some people climb mountains to achieve greatness.
Some people try to win championship sports games.
John Pultorak built a working replica of a 40-year-old
computer. Late last year, Pultorak, of Highlands
Ranch, Colorado, completed a four-year project ... |
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| QED: Bhansali?s errors
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Amid the boring movies of Bollywood Sanjay Leela Bhansali?s latest film Black may be a departure. Instead of inane love stories, or headache-inducing brawls, he portrays the vagaries of two formidable neurological disorders at one go. After hav
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| Recommended:
Billions of years of cosmic evolution
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ORIGINS
Neil Tyson, Donald Goldsmith
W.W. Norton; £ 12.99 ... | Read.. |
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Most home medicine cupboards contain painkill-ers. As
many as nine in 10 people take such medicines, known collectively
as analgesics, to ease a huge range of ailments from pulled
muscles or arthritic joints, headaches and toothache to
colds and flu. ... | 
