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MYSTERY KILLER

An unknown disease that has claimed nearly 250 lives so far, has spread terror in the districts of western Nepal, specifically in Bajura and Accham. Efforts to trace the cause and identify the

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Species, but not quite

Viruses, which display an easier capacity for mutation, could be nature's 'quasi species'

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HELP AT HAND

The Japanese have come to the rescue of ailing mangrove trees in Sri Lanka. Japan's Institute of Technology on Fisheries and Fishing Communities has come forward to provide aid for a major mangrove

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Storm in the coffee cup

The coffee borer having developed resistance to the insecticide endosulphan, is threatening coffee plantations throughout the world

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FARMERS' REVOLT

The shortage of fertilisers is proving to be a major cause for the current peasant unrest in Bangladesh. Farmers, unable to grow the region's main rice crop this season, demonstrated before the

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Welcome home, stranger!

Certain sensors in the mother's immune system are desensitised to make it possible for her body to accept the :lien' within: her child

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UNITED NATIONS

Austerity measures to prop up the crumbling UN, hit by an acute financial crisis, has resulted in the unprecedented step of enrolling unpaid volunteers. This has become necessary, say UN

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Born in a dish

The birth of a mouse in a petri dish the end result of the use of an effective technique to manipulate oocytes heralds a new era in reproductive biology

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For science's sake

ARE science and religion at loggerheads? It seems they are, at least in this case. A professor of bio-ethics and veterinary science at the Birmingham University, David Morton, recently defended

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Refrigerator or greenhouse

Martin E Nix, an engineer from Seattle, US, who holds several patents for solar powered inventions, has devised a way of turning old refrigerators into greenhouses. The condenser, compressor and

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