Traditional crops: hurdles faced in going beyond them
Banks do not come forward to give loans to the korai grass cultivators
Archive for August, 2009
Management of leaf folder in rice
Yield loss is from 30-80 per cent
Red ants
Several potted plants in my garden are infested with red ants. Is there any safe method to repell them as I am not interested in using chemicals? G. Vidya Venkat Mumbai You can spray neem oil …
Swine flu: AIDS patients not at greater risk of infection
Though the CD4 cells are less, other parts of the immune system are able to fight the flu
Polymer reduces radioactive waste
Indian scientists have developed a new polymer that reduces radioactive waste in nuclear reactors, making the decontamination process a less expensive one. Referred to as ‘Cobalt Imprinted Polymer’, the compound selects the …
Focusing two scenes
Our eyes cannot focus two scenes simultaneously. Why?
This week’s questions
Why is it that the shadow of an object placed near a souce of light is fainter than that of an object placed far from it? K. Vaithinathasamy, Why does yawning cause more tear flow in our …
Differences between itch, pain, and ache
Itch had long been held by physiologists to be a sub-modality or sub-quality of pain and both sensations have many similarities
Facebook addicts are forgetting etiquettes
youngsters are drifting away from the basics of etiquettes, thanks to social networking and the adoration of badly behaving stars.
