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Green, yet mean

Reducing vehicular pollution and promoting the automobile industry: the twain shall probably never meet. A UK government survey too, does not green signal any major changes

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A relic from the past

A fossilised jaw discovered last year in the Yuanqu river basin, in the southern part of China's Shanxi province is probably an early ancestor of the modern monkey, ape and even humans.

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The breakthrough

IT COULD be the key to unlocking the mystery of the AIDS virus. Scientists at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) in Maryland, have found a protein that enables

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Green Paper proposals

• A new system of trunk road planning to avoid planning delays • New power to local authorities to manage traffic demand in their areas and reduce vehicular pollution •

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Street smart settlers

Scientists report on the role played by two processes, rapid evolution and the founder effect, in shaping the existence of lifeforms migrating to islands

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Atoms to the rescue?

AS THE world's fossil fuel reserves decline, the search for a clean, inexpensive and sustainable source of energy hots up. At a site near Abingdon, a us $794 million experiment to develop a

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Success is a mindgame

A memory drug developed by Indian scientists could hold the key to a ultimillion dollar global market

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Of pug marks and prowls

A recent study on the notion of territoriality among tigers reveals that females are more home bound than the males

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Freight with danger

ANTI-NUCLEAR feelings ran high in northern Germany, when a 40-tonne shipment of-plutonium and nuclear waste recently arrived at the Gorleben nuclear storage 0ant near Hanover. A series of

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Might of the right

Under public pressure, the Rajasthan government has formed a committee to examine the implications of the people's demand for the right to information

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