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Wednesday 17 March 2010
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 Vasanthotsava for Ugadi     Bill to help victims get compensation faster     Phone calls of held terror suspects traced to Karachi     SC rejects Satyam’s Raju bail plea     India-born Labour MP Ashok Kumar dies     Nithyananda wants to ‘cleanse’ self in Ganga     Rajasthan get Royal taste of Viru storm     Pak players in match-fixing: panel     'Arrested terror suspects associated with Dawood Ibrahim'     Pachauri not to quit IPCC     Vijender, Suranjoy in finals of C'wealth C'ship     Four jawans killed in Pokhran firing range blast     'ISI sharing intelligence and providing protection to LeT'     Krishna hints at next secretary-level talks in Islamabad     India will fight attempts to unseat Pachauri: Jairam Ramesh     11th plan aims to create 58 mn new jobs: Govt     Govt allows foreign varsities to open campuses     Cabinet nod to plantation workers bill     Decision on judicial standards bill deferred     11 MNS men held for threatening filmmaker     Cong bashing at Maya rally     Govt clears draft bill on road safety    
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Technology for all
up in the air The world’s smallest and lightest autonomous unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), called the Carbon. Below: The power tiller. Innovations that touch the lives of the common man. Not research on black holes, not Big Bang, not the arrow of time. That was the focus at EmTech 2010, a conference on emerging technologies held in Bangalore recently. A microfluidic chip based...
What the stars told Galileo...
Stargazing Physicist Graney suggested in 2008 that Galileo’s observations of stars were actually diffraction patterns called Airy disks. Getty Images ASTRONOMY Physicist Christopher Graney has revealed that Galileo got the distances of stars too short by a factor of thousands much like astronomer Simon Marius, who also mistook Airy disks as stars. But their conclusions of the solar system were...
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Fish use UV patterns to tell species apart If you’ve seen one damselfish, you’ve seen them all. That may be true for people, who have a difficult time telling species apart.
 
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