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Trimness no guarantee to health
Visceral fat found inside the abdominal cavity is more dangerous than subcutaneous fat. It is the fat distribution and not total amount of fat in the body that has to be used as a health indicator.


Machine for coating telescope mirror
THE BANGALORE based, Hind High Vacuum (HHV) Ltd. has pioneered the commercialisation of high vacuum technology. When the Indian Institute of Astrophysics (IIA) wanted a sophisticated vacuum coating machine to service its telescope located at ...
Atomic-scale memory
IN 1959, physics icon Richard Feynman, predicted that all the words written in the history of the world could be contained in a cube of material one two-hundredths of an inch wide provided those words were written with atoms. Now, a little ...
Cow urine therapy
THE U.S. Patent Office (USPTO) grants thousands of patents every week, and yet, the U.S. Patent, 6410059, titled "Pharmaceutical Compositions containing Cow urine Distillate and An Antibiotic" issued to S.P.S. Kanuja and 13 others and assigned to ...
Information Technology
Your next printer: a `Jack-of-all-trades'?
Why buy a plain old printer, when you can get a machine that also copies, scans, faxes — and even emails? Anand Parthasarathy examines if the new generation multi-function printers that are hitting the Indian market are a good dea l.

Health & Medicine
Stress makes fat stay in blood longer
A NEW study has found the first evidence that short periods of psychological stress can cause the body to take longer to clear heart-damaging fats from the bloodstream. Researchers at Ohio State University tested how quickly triglycerides — ...

Paths Of Innovators
Discoverer of jumping genes
BARBARA McCLINTOCK was born on June 16, 1902, in Hartford, Connecticut (U.S.). She enrolled, in the fall of 1921, at Cornell University for the only course in genetics then offered in U.S. for the Bachelor's degree. Only two decades had passed ...

Agriculture
Perennial herb as natural sweetener
A PERENNIAL herb originating from Paraguay has a lot of potential as a safe sweetening agent and this natural sweetener is extensively used in Japan. The sweet herb is botanically known as Stevia Rebaudiana, and it belongs to the family ...

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