Science
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Expect some big scientific breakthroughs in 2015
World | Dec 31, 2014, 02:28 PM ISTWashington: While 2014 saw some marvellous discoveries like 3D-printed body parts and scientific breakthroughs like comet landing, 2015 too holds a great future for science, reports the prestigious journal Nature.The first big news is expected
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Pakistani authorities ban science text book
World | Sep 21, 2013, 06:45 PM ISTLahore: The government of Pakistan's Punjab province has banned a science book for Grade VI students of a chain of elite schools for containing material that could provoke “sexual desire”.The text book used by the
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Japan receives 1st nuclear reactor fuel since 2011
World | Jun 27, 2013, 10:35 AM ISTTokyo, June 27: A power plant has received the first shipment of reprocessed nuclear reactor fuel sent to Japan since the 2011 disaster that forced it to shut down reactors. The fuel, a mixture of
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Now, a chip that detects disease in blood drop
World | Jun 25, 2013, 05:19 PM ISTLos Angeles,June 25: Scientists have engineered a cutting-edge sensor chip that can detect diseases from a drop of blood, says a new study.A new study describes how Reginald Farrow and Alokik Kanwal, researchers at the
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Indian origin researcher promotes science among poor US kids
World | Jul 19, 2012, 02:00 PM ISTHarlem,Jul19 :He might be involved in high-profile cancer research as a scientist, but Indian-origin scholar Satyajit Bhattacharya is giving back to the local community in his adopted country by helping economically backward children realise their
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China Far Ahead Of India In Science, Says PM
India | Feb 26, 2012, 05:42 PM ISTWashington, Feb 26: China is in “many ways far ahead” of India in the field of science, says a concerned Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who last month pledged to more than double the country's R&D
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11-Year-Old Pak Girl Sets World Record By Passing O-Level
World | Dec 11, 2011, 10:41 PM ISTChiniot, Pakistan, Dec 11: Eleven-year-old girl Sitara Akbar has set a world record by passing O-level English, Mathmatics and Science, Geo News reported on Sunday.This is not the first time that Sitara from Chanab area
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NASA Rover Curiosity Blasts Off Towards Mars
World | Nov 26, 2011, 10:14 PM ISTCape Canaveral, Florida, Nov 26: The world's biggest extraterrestrial explorer, NASA's Curiosity rover, rocketed toward Mars on Saturday on a search for evidence that the red planet might once have been home to itsy-bitsy life.It
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Majority Wants Single Common Test For Science, Engg Admissions
India | Aug 05, 2011, 11:31 AM ISTNew Delhi, Aug 5: An overwhelming majority of people are in favour of reforms in the examination system like conduct of a single common test for admission to under graduate courses in science and engineering,
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Where Next For NASA? Scientists Draw Up Wish List
World | Mar 08, 2011, 10:46 AM ISTLos Angeles, Mar 8: Land a rover on Mars to collect rocks and soil samples that could later be returned to Earth. If that's a budget-buster, then orbit Jupiter's moon Europa, which may have a