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PINPOINTING the location of a fire out- break has often caused a lot of heart- burn to firemen. Not any more: the New Delhi-based National Informatics Centre (Nic) has @ome out with a new

MOVED from Goa to Gurnmiclipoondi near Madras in Tamil Nadu, the proposed Thapar-Dupont nylon 6,6 project has come under fire once again. Goan environmental activist Claude Alvares, who had

AUSTRALIAN premier Paul Keating called it .an act of stupidity," and the rest of the world exploded in anger - but Paris remained undeterred. In the wee hours of Septembei 6, the French did what

The Sherlock Holmeses of today have moved from the familiar confines of Baker Street to the esoteric climes of biological labs

A neem pesticide patent acquired by a foreign farm has become for some a pill of contention

The scourge of sickle cell anaernia buckles down to modern medicine as cytotoxins provide a possible cure

The nightmare that ruined kobe stays put in the streets of Japan's prosperous cities, shattering a few economic myths

YET another clue has been found which might help unravel the mystery surrounding cancer. Three chemists, working at the University of Oklahoma in Norman, us, have discovered how nitrosamines --

DNA profiling has come as the end product of a long lineage of using science in the aid of crime detection

The hole in the ozone shield is growing faster than ever, warns a recent report