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GM field trials: leaving no room for assessment
The West Bengal Government was in the dark when the field trials were started in the State


Evaluating a new MDR-TB test
If patients failing to complete the treatment, and wrong medication by the medical practitioners often leads to drug resistance in TB patients, diagnosing people who are resistant to the first-line drugs is fraught with long ...

When demand exceeds supply


Global warming sends plants to higher areas
The Bure summit located in the Dvoluy range of the French Alps shows vegetation at higher altitudes. Faced with global warming, plants are shifting their favoured locations into higher, cooler areas. ...

A third of all marine species wrongly named
The Breadcrumb Sponge is one of about a third of all types of fish and other marine life that have been wrongly named by scientists. This complicates the efforts to conserve about a million marine ...

Focus on Iceland’s energy innovations
The Nestaveni geothermal power station is located about 30 km from Reykjavik, Iceland. The power station produces 120 MW of electrical energy and about 380 MW of heat energy. ...

Oldest vertebrate mother ever discovered
The fossilised remains of a 375-million-year-old placoderm fish with embryo and umbilical cord attached was discovered recently. It is the oldest remains of vertebrate sex ever discovered. ...

Replica of the largest winged creature
The Quetzalcoatlus is the largest winged creature ever discovered on Earth. A full-scale replica of the Quetzalcoatlus is on display at the National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation in Tokyo. ...
Information Technology

New ultra small mobile Net device on the block
The assumed barriers that separated mobile phone and PC are crumbling


Agriculture

Ecological farming allows nature to nurture development
The farmer has developed a herbal extract for controlling hairy caterpillar

Land degradation threatens dry land populations
Dry lands cover about 41 per cent of the earth’s surface. The poor people in the drylands depend mainly on rain fed agriculture and natural rangelands for their survival. Their livelihoods are at risk due to land degradation, which ...

Farm Queries
Apply about 750 gms of super phosphate and potash each and about 500 gms of urea as split doses during June and October. Worm formation How to prevent formation of worms in vegetables and fruits? E. Fabian ...


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