Archive for August, 2009

Traditional crops: hurdles faced in going beyond them

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Banks do not come forward to give loans to the korai grass cultivators

Management of leaf folder in rice

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Yield loss is from 30-80 per cent

Red ants

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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

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Though the CD4 cells are less, other parts of the immune system are able to fight the flu

Polymer reduces radioactive waste

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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 …

Spitzer telescope on `warm’ mission

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Focusing two scenes

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Our eyes cannot focus two scenes simultaneously. Why?

This week’s questions

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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

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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

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youngsters are drifting away from the basics of etiquettes, thanks to social networking and the adoration of badly behaving stars.