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Science and Technology - Briefs
Issue Date: Feb 28, 2013
Material Sciences
Live wire
Here is a wire you can stretch, bend or cut and it would still work. Scientists have created the self-healing, elastic wire using liquid metal and a polymer. Small tunnels are bored in polymer sheath and are filled with a liquid alloy of indium and gallium, forming a liquid metal wire inside the stretchable sheath.
@Jyotika_Sood High cost of fodder led milk price hike
Issue Date: Jun 30, 2010
Birmashri Rathore knows exactly how much water to add to milk so that it can still be accepted as milk.
Battle zone: Humans vs elephants
Issue Date: Mar 31, 2003
SUBSIDISED KILLING
Issue Date: Jun 15, 2000
AS FAR AS the eye can see, it is a mass of horns in a desiccated, semi-arid landscape. The horns emerge sideways from the head, turn up, and then arch back at the tips, as if swept back by the wind. Kankrej, native to northern Gujarat, is quite a regal-looking breed of cattle.
The milk that ate the grass
Issue Date: Apr 15, 1999
SCENE I: 5 am in the morning, a household in any part of India. The milkman rings the doorbell. The sleepy-eyed customer takes the daily quota of the white fluid and prepares for the day ahead. There are more than 900 million people in the country. The demand for milk is stupendous. And the country just became the largest producer of milk in the world.
Letter
Issue Date: Oct 31, 2011
People the focal point
The editorial “Lessons from Kakarapalli” (September 1-15, 2011) is a wake-up call for industries eyeing land and other resources of poor people.
News 360°- Briefs
Issue Date: Feb 15, 2011
ENERGY
BP FINDS ITS WAY TO ARCTIC
Act before vicious cycle sets in
Issue Date: Dec 15, 2010
Goat rearing is the poor’s survival response to an ecological crisis. It has turned out to be an economic success. But the goat economy has the potential to precipitate an ecological crisis if grazing is not ensured. Options before India are very few: shrinking grazing ground, restricted forest land and stall feeding. India has to respond quickly to protect both poor people’s livelihood and ecology. How can it achieve that?
