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| Duel over the sun |
| A Bangalore physicist forecasts that the next solar cycle will be one of the mildest in decades, while others in the community, including his own former student, disagree. G.S. Mudur reports |
| In about five years, the sun will turn hyperactive — as it usually does every 11 years, and physicist Arnab Rai Choudhuri is trying to predict the level of its ferocity. On his computer at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, Choudhuri has simulated the outer layers of the sun — the fl... |
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| Star power |
| Counting the stars visible to the naked eye takes patience, persistence (and a certain kind of madness!) and many ancient astronomers have done it. Ab
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| Encounters of another kind |
| As a psychology undergraduate, I would stand for hours in a railway station watching for passionate reunions between lovers. As soon as they were lock
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| Work out: check the web |
| No, I am not going to wear my bariatric surgeon cap and ask you to go under the knife to lose weight. Instead, why don’t you do what you are norm
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| Pack those precautions in |
| Summer is here and India is on the move. Examinations are over and the vacations have begun. “Heading home” is now blasé. Exotic holidays ar
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Why Corner |
| Why is some hair straight and some curly? |
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