Bridges across continents? Poor design, ageing, increasing load are the easons for bridges collapsing. But with high performance steel now being used and special attention on design, giant spans of steel and concrete may one day soar across the Strait of Gibraltar and the Bering Sea, uniting Africa and Europe, Asia and the Americas !
60 years of technology If you look at the achievement in space science or in Railways, it is not by IIT graduates. They are from regular engineering colleges. We need to focus more attention on these colleges.
Sterilising the Phoenix Phoenix scientists had to scrape every bit of organic material from the craft. Even dead bacteria could contaminate the experiments.
GREEN INC Saving carbon emissions by taking small steps, reducing dependence on raw materials, recycling and education programmes, sustainable practices feature largely on the social responsibility plans of many companies today.
Finding cool solutions to heated problems Game consoles, digital video recorders, cable boxes and other gadgets in the living room
are throwing off tremendous amounts of heat.
India’s nuclear deal with the United States has generated a lot of heat and dust.
Who is the principal beneficiary of this “historic” deal -- India or the US?
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