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Operation landslide
Issue Date: Jul 15, 2008
the Hardwar-Rishikesh bypass in Uttarakhand has tilted by 15 over the past two years. Scientists detected this by installing a system, which they say can predict landslides.
Moral of science
Issue Date: Jul 15, 2008
If scientists are part of a global community, does that mean there is a uniform pattern in the choices they make? The answer can be both yes and
no, going by the results of a recent survey of Indian scientists. Unlike most of their fraternity in the us and Europe,
an overwhelming 56 per cent scientists in the country prefer a mixed economy; this is consistent with their support for both government and
Mixed reality
Issue Date: Jul 15, 2008
The virtual world of secondlife.com is serious business. Last month steel tycoon Lakshmi Mittal, ceo of ArcelorMittal, held a regular shareholders' meeting in Luxembourg and linked it with the digital continent.
Odour map
Issue Date: Jul 15, 2008
Brain senses smell, the way it recognizes musical notes
THE fragrance of almonds is closer to that of roses than of bananas. Scientists from Weizmann Institute, Israel, have, for the first time ever, mapped odours and determined the distance between them. This helped them distinguish one odour from another.
Bug love
Issue Date: Jul 15, 2008
a research team has stumbled upon a bug that feasts on arsenic. Present in the root nodules of black gram, the bacteria increases soil fertility and fixes nitrogen. It could be an effective way of bioremediation of arsenic from contaminated soil, says a team of researchers from iit Kharagpur and Vidyasagar University, Midnapore, West Bengal. They isolated a tolearant strain of rhizobium species from the root nodules of plants growing in contaminated soil.
Bytes
Issue Date: Jul 15, 2008
acidic oceans: Dissolved CO2 makes water more acidic. UK researchers saw a fall in the species numbers and snails with their shells disintegrating in vents in the Mediterranean sea. They say impacts such as changing of marine food web and decrease in biodiversity might become common with the increase of CO2 levels. Some of the extra CO2 emitted enters the oceans, acidifying waters globally.
Delete Microsoft
Issue Date: Jul 15, 2008
standard-regulating bodies of four countries--Brazil, India, South Africa and Venezuela--have appealed to the International Organization for Standardization (iso) against its approval of Microsoft's Open Office xml (ooxml) as a standard format for digital documents.
Brief
Issue Date: Jul 15, 2008
flood
Early monsoon hits India
India close to solar energy breakthrough
Issue Date: Sep 15, 1992
SOLAR cells used to tap energy from the sun are made up of photovoltaic substances such as silicon which, when combined with suitable additives and exposed to sunlight, produce electricity. Extracting crystalline silicon from the compounds in which it is found is highly energy-intensive and the element itself accounts for upto 50 per cent of the total cost of producing photovoltaic systems.
