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| Designed to be undetectable |
| new challenges faced by anti doping experts come in the shape of performance boosting substances designed to evade detection. G.S. Mudur reports |
| New molecules that promise to turn a couch potato’s dream into reality also threaten to make cheating in sports easier. Anti doping sleuths are now scrambling to arm themselves against a new challenge that has popped up — coincidentally — just ahead of the 2008 Beijing Olympics.... |
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| Star burst |
| French astrophysicist Olivier Chesneau prefers to call them “stellar vampires.” Professional star gazers knew for a while that a nova (meani
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| Carrots and sticks don’t work |
| It happens all the time. Two guys in a garage come up with a cool new technology — and dream of making it big. A thousand people take time off work to
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| Fine-tuned Firefox |
| Mozilla Firefox, the Web browser with the quirky name, has grown up fast. Four years ago, Firefox was an obscure project Microsoft felt free to ignore
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| Bitter truth about betel |
| If you thought only the tobacco in chewing pan is addictive, think again. Researchers in Bangalore have found that betel nut (Areca catechu
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