 | Cell phones play a crucial role in relationships among young techies in a high-tech Indian boomtown as they provide technical support to people half way across the world in North America.
So suggests a US study focusing on the very personal side... More |
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Scientists have returned from icy seas near the South Pole with pictures of rare seabed animals breeding for millennia in watery darkness under vast sheets of ice.
The expedition, aboard the German polar research vessel 1,000 Polarstern,... More |
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 | Concrete structures around the Vaishno Devi shrine in Jammu and Kashmir are putting pressure on the fragile ecology of the area and could cause a "collapse" in the Himalayan foothills, an expert has warned.
"The shrine attracted seven million... More |
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 | Japanese fishermen are currently conducting an annual dolphin hunt, with government approval, which kills thousands of the aquatic mammals, despite protests from international environmental organisations.
Hideki Moronuki, spokesman for the... More |
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 | Indo-US collaboration in broadening the horizons of research in nano and quantum computing will open up new frontiers to speed up data transmission processes and unravel the mysteries of nature, said experts at a seminar here.
The Indo-US Agra... More |
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 | The population of endangered Irrawaddy dolphins in Chilika Lake has gone up marginally from 131 last year to 135, the highest ever reported from the lake in Orissa.
Among them are 115 adults, 15 sub-adults and five calves, said Sudarshan Panda,... More |
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 | There is a proverb in Bangladesh: "Gola bhora Dhan, pukur bhora mach", meaning life is good when you have a silo full of paddy and ponds full of fish. But the proverb may lose currency as the fish population is dwindling on account of vanishing... More |
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 | US authorities began testing a controversial new X-ray machine to screen air passengers for weapons in Phoenix from Friday.
The X-ray machine that uses so-called "backscatter" technology peers beneath passengers' clothes to search for hidden... More |
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 | Japan launched two more spy satellites into space Saturday from a base in southern Japan, Japanese media reported.
An H-2A rocket carrying the two satellites lifted off from Kagoshima.The satellites will enable Japan to keep any location on... More |
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 | A wildlife corridor stretching 2,800 km along Australia's east coast will be set up to allow species to find new habitats as global warming alters the continent's climate, news reports said Saturday.
The idea is to persuade private landholders... More |
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