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Prettiest birds the hardest hit at Chernobyl Birds with bright, colourful plumage registered the strongest decline 
Smallest Indian frog foundThe latest issue of Current Science, the international science journal, reports the finding of the smallest known land vertebrate in India, a miniature frog, from Kurichiyarmala in Kerala’s Wayanad district on the Western Ghats of ... A better definition for the kilogram In a move to create a standard that would eliminate the need for a physical artefact to define what a kilogram is Ronald F. Fox, a Regents’ Professor Emeritus in the School of Physics at the Georgia Institute of Technology and Theodore P. ... Pharmaceutical companies back stem cells for drug tests Cockroaches learn best during the evenings In a study, researchers taught individual cockroaches to associate peppermint — a scent that they normally find slightly distasteful — with sugar water, causing them to favour it over vanilla, a scent they find universally ...
The sociobiology of choosing mates Do today’s youth go the ‘western way’, or do they still ‘accommodate’ the family’s wishes?
Farm Queries You can contact Dr. T.K. Jacob, scientific officer, Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Indian Institute of Spices Research, Peruvannamuzhi Post, Kozhikode, Kerala- 673 528, e-mail: jacobtk@spices.res.in, phone: ... FARMER'S NOTEBOOK Growing crops by following the lunar calendar The lunar cycle plays a key role in this farming practice Eri silk production The leaves of the Jatropha curcas plant serve as food for rearing eri silkworms to produce high value silk. In North-East India particularly in Assam, eri silk cocoon production is being carried out for a long time.
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