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Supercar dreams

The triumvirate of the American automobile industry, General Motors, Chrysler Corp and Ford Moors, have joined hands with the Clinton administration to develop a "safe, high-performance supercar"

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Aquaculture comes under scrutiny

The Union agriculture ministry has finally woken up to the adverse environmental impact of the mushrooming of aquaculture projects in the country. A panel of experts has been constituted under the

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Feat of filigree

Even modern technology cannot equal the uniformity discovered in fine gold and silver threads found in a 17th century Mughal tent

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Zeroing in on ozone

Mexico is fighting hard to correct its ozone levels on ground. According to the Metropolitan Commission for the Prevention and control of Mexico City Pollution, lead levels have decreased by almost

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Scaling political heights over Narmada

The controversy over the reduction of dam height of the Sardar Sarovar project is back in the news with the Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh governments locking horns to scale political heights over it.

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Kidney friendly bacteria

Scientists at the University of Florida in Gainesville have isolated 2 genes from a bacterium called Oxalobacter rmigenes that may pave the way for removing kidney stones through gene therapy. The

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Malaria halt

Good news for those down with malaria. Manuel Patarroyo, a biochemist from Colombia, claims that he is about to develop a vaccine against the disease, one of the oldest scourges of mankind. The

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Metering by the time of day

Responding to criticism that the Maharashtra State Electricity Board (MSEB) has been opting for highcost solutions like Enron's Dabhol power project and ignoring energy conservation and efficiency in

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Sooty clues

Clean-air campaigners can't always pin down the source of a pollutant, by no means an easy task at best. Now, researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have devised a way to solve the

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Flowering in concrete jungles

It's not time yet to write the obituary of urban biodiversity. A recent study by Czech ecologist Pavel Pysek reveals that European cities host a large number of wild plants. Berlin tops the list with

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