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Published: Saturday 08 February 2014

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Author(s): Vibha Varshney
Date: February 07, 2014
Scientists attending the 101st Science Congress discuss technology solutions to lift farmers, livestock owners out of poverty
 
Author(s): Vibha Varshney
Date: February 06, 2014
The Bill Gates Foundation has invited Indian innovators to send in their ideas that could change the world. But India needs more solutions to its problems than what the foundation can fund. We should cash in on the existing database of ideas with the National Research Development Corporation and National Innovation Foundation
 
Author(s): Vibha Varshney
Date: February 05, 2014
Taxonomists who can identify plant samples correctly are in great shortage, affecting research in applied sciences like biotechnology and genetics
 
Author(s): Vibha Varshney
Date: February 04, 2014
The Science Innovators' Exhibition, organised by the National Innovation Foundation, showcased innovations including gas stove that can be timed to turn off; a clothesline that protects clothes from rain
 
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India’s first inter-planetary flight is now well on its way. Once the satellite orbits the Red Planet, the country will become the fourth in the world to achieve the feat.
 
Caught in the bureaucratic rigidities are the science and scientists. Lax standards, poor monitoring and unpunished scientific fraud have destroyed ambitious research projects and shaken the morale of the public research system
There is no dearth of scientific knowledge in our country, but it does not get built into our daily lives
 
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Down To Earth invites sci-fi buffs and writers to take its readers on a guided tour of the world of science fiction that throws a mirror to the present, tantalises with possibilities of utopias and entertains with robots and descriptions of space travel
 
 

 

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