Oil tanker spills compound the danger to the marine food chain by crude released into the sea in normal operations and seepage from the earth. …
READ MORE 15 Mar 1993
Efforts by rationalists to spread scientific thinking have been scuttled by those in positions of power throughout history
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Efforts by rationalists to spread scientific thinking have been scuttled by those in positions of power throughout history
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What on Earth are comets? And why do they behave whimsically like they do?
READ MORE 15 Aug 1994
Lithium batteries, with numerous advantages over their ancestors, are scientists' new obsession as the ecofriendly cells
READ MORE 15 Jan 1996
Like all such meetings before, the UN World Summit in Copenhagen had to address the needs of the commoner, the bedrock of all nations
READ MORE 31 Mar 1995
How excess nutrients can kill a lake
READ MORE 31 Dec 1994
From ancient Greece to the world of today, humans have always believed that the amazing diversity of objects in the universe can be interpreted …
READ MORE 15 Jun 1993
Enzymes are the new, hip, ecof riendly detergent components
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Sustainable development, the buzzword in environmental circles, is largely misunderstood. It can only come about in a society which can …
READ MORE 15 Jun 1992
The patterns that diseases furrow among large sections of a population provide clues to check epidemics
READ MORE 30 Jun 1994
Do slum dwellers feature in the grand plan of smart cities?
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...and latest findings have 2 groups of mutually hostile astronomers still going cockeyed trying to gauge the age of the universe
READ MORE 15 Feb 1995
Biodiversity - the billions of life forms that exist on earth - ranges in size from microscopic be viruses to blue whales that are more than 30 …
READ MORE 31 Oct 1992
Self-sustaining rural communities could be India's answer to her disrupted ecosystem.
READ MORE 31 Dec 1993
Pain scientists are reasonably agreed that pain is an unpleasant feeling in our body that makes us want to stop and change our behaviour
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Pain scientists are reasonably agreed that pain is an unpleasant feeling in our body that makes us want to stop and change our behaviour
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Patents are monopoly rights granted to the inventors to protect their economic interests. But this becomes complicated when the patent is …
READ MORE 31 Aug 1992
Modern designers of interior climate control can learn a thing or two from traditional windtowers and windtunnels
READ MORE 31 May 1995
