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Soft fangs

A rebel sponge prefers to be a carnivore instead of filtering its food from seawater

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MONEYMAKERS

The UK-based NEC Corporation and Ezaki Glico, a Japanese confectionary company, claim to have mastered the art of controlling and altering the catalytic properties of enzymes. For instance, the

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Current solutions

This time round, US secretary of energy Hazel O'Leary's visit to India was a successful business trip

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Sap zap

US scientists show how plants can be used as vaccine factories

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Dyke disaster

After 50 complacent years, Europe's state of the art dyke system is softened for the kill by raging riverine floods

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Jinxed dam

A fresh snag hounds the controversial Sardar Sarovar Project

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Vehicles of radiation

Radioactivity should be added to the list of potential carcinogens in motor-vehicle exhausts, say scientists from the University of Bristol, UK. Denis Henshaw and colleagues have found raised

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NEPAL

Nepal's controversial Arun III dam is scheduled to come under withering scrutiny. In early February, the World Bank gave its independent inspection panel a green signal to conduct a formal

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Mangrove graves

Aggressive shrimp farming is slowly breaking down the last ecological barrier against tidal waves and cyclonic gales in coastal Andhra Pradesh. Rapacious aquafarmers are marauding the rich mangroves

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Oilseed bonanza

Indian markets may soon be flooded with high yielding hybrid seeds of mustard and rapeseed

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