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Generating electricity from mud Turbulence of a different kind ALL AIRCRAFT generate wake turbulence. But heavier the aircraft severe is the turbulence. Wake turbulence describes the `effect of two rotating air masses generated behind the wing tips of large jet aircraft.' The terms `wake vortex' and `wake ... More View from the cockpit THE CONCURRENCE of Wake Turbulence soon after the crash of an American Airlines flight in the US established after the investigators examined the Flight Data Recorder (FDR) and the Cockpit Voice Recorder (CVR), the incident has generated a lot of ... More Miniaturised atom lasers A FEW years ago, first atom lasers were built, devices that produce a beam of atoms with many properties of a laser beam. Now physicists at the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics and the Ludwig-Maximilians- Universitaet in Munich have ... More Smallest microchain drive fabricated A MICROCHAIN that closely resembles a bicycle chain except that each link could rest comfortably atop a human hair has been fabricated at the Department of Energy's Sandia National Laboratories. (The distance between chain link centers is 50 ... More Less weight fire extinguishers FIREFIGHTERS AND aircraft makers could benefit from a new chemical system that creates vast quantities of cool gas without using enormous pressurised gas cylinders. Russian and Dutch scientists have developed a system that replaces hefty ... More
Why iMac may be the 'Apple of your eye'A new Apple PC is always a design engineer's delight. But the `iMac' unveiled this month, is being seen as the machine that will also inaugurate the next era of personal computing. Anand Parthasarathy examines the technological r easons for the excitement. More
Herbs: rich source of antioxidantsHerbs have higher antioxidant activity than fruits, vegetables and some spices, including garlic. In addition to making food tastier, they are an abundant source of antioxidants and could provide potential anticancer benefits when supplementing a bal anced diet. More Fresh approach to TB treatment Tests have shown that some of the azole drugs work on various mycobacteria, including the BCG strain used for inoculations and mycobacterium smegmatis, generally an opportunistic pathogen. More Thrill rides may cause head, neck trauma WITH THE advent of amusement park rides reaching G-forces that exceed those experienced by astronauts on the space shuttle, emergency physicians may be seeing a significant increase in head, neck and back trauma, warned an article in Annals of ... More Water regulation in humans HOPKINS MEDICAL sleuths found that the absence of a certain protein interferes with the body's ability to regulate its water levels. Reported in the New England Journal of Medicine, it provides insight into how the kidney works. The ... More
Foot rot in black pepperQUICK WILT is a dreaded disease of spice crop. Resistant varieties, related compatible species or hybrids are used as rootstocks for such purposes. Piper colubrinum Link is one such useful species quite compatible with black pepper as a ... More FARMER'S NOTE BOOK 
Robust and resilient bird for small farmersGUINEA FOWL (Numida meleagris) is a hardy bird with wider adaptability, and it could be an ideal bird for the small farmers in arid and semi-arid regions of the world. The bird, somewhat larger than average scavenger-type chickens, can ... More Managing Panama wilt in banana PANAMA WILT is also called as the Fusarium wilt of banana. This disease is caused by Fusarium oxysporum. This disease causes two types of symptoms. One symptom is inodoratum or yellowing characterised by strong yellowing of erect ... More
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