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Fridges without the pong

Opening the refrigerator door can sometimes be a smelly jolt and conventional deodorants are not much help. But now a Japanese firm, Arromic Co Ltd, has come up with a ceramic-based deodorant that

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Putting the brakes on emissions

To reduce emissions of ozone depleting substances, a state government in Germany has hauled the reins on motorists rocketing down highways

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Green signal to copycats

The department of electronics (DoE) has decided to encourage copycatting, going head-on against the international go-ahead given to software developers to zealously guard their products to prevent

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Love through catastrophe

The erratic rationale that has often led unrequited love to pen down its sighs has defied "scientific" comprehension. But recently, Fredric Jones of the University of Cardiff in the UK claims to have

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Too high a price

Unwitting subjects to a 1954 nuclear experiment, the former inhabitants of a Pacific atoll continue to suffer

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Sitting cool

A misplaced cigarette butt on the polyurethane seats in an aircraft, the most inflammable material besides the fuel, could lead to an aerial disaster. But Indian Airlines can cease to worry about the

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Checking cholera with salt

Latin American countries are now equipped with a cheap and effective remedy to keep cholera under check, thanks to the researchers at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta

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Barrier up on skirts

The Union minister of state for tex-tiles, G Venkat Swamy, has threatened "retaliatory action" against American products, if a recent US ban on the sale of rayon ghagras made in India is not

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Haul your own garbage

Vadodara's residents show that handling garbage hands on is the best way to beat municipal overload

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Targeting the World Bank

Bretton Woods institutions come in for a beating from a new coalition of NGOs

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