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| Haven’t experts let a research opportunity slip by? ask Radha Kanta Mandal and Prasun Chaudhuri |
| Lokman Hakim Mondal, the
overweight ‘wonder baby’, made regular headlines until he died on May
22 at the SSKM Hospital. Even bloggers in the Internet had been exchanging the
health updates of the 11-month-old kid who weighed 24 kilos. But, surprisingly,
his life, or death, did not affect the country’s scientists who just let
a tremendous research opportunity slip by them. This, probably, speaks volumes
for Indians’ love of things scientific ... | Read.. |
| Gross distortions |
| It is one of the unlikeliest
hits in cinematic history: a documentary exploring the weird world of quantum
physics that confounded its subject ... | Read.. |
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| Genes to blame for antisocial behaviour |
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largely inherited among a significant minority of children who have trouble empathising
with others, British scientists have found. A study of 3,687 pairs of seven-year-old
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| Volcano-size pimples |
| The shock waves from December’s
giant earthquake set off devastating tsunamis. They also set off a series of temblors
nearly 7,000 miles ... | Read.. |
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| Radar in bird brain |
| Migratory songbirds perform
some neat navigational tricks, feats that are made even neater because most songbirds
migrate at night. So they take ... | Read.. |
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Lokman with his mother Ganera Bibi (Pic: PTI)
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| New lease of life |
For several years, technology pundits have predicted the death of the palmtop
computer. “This is the cellphone age,” they say. “Who’s going
to carry around a separate gadget just to look up names and numbers?” But
for the sam ... | Read.. |
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| QED: Caste system in labs
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With the backing of senior science policy-makers, some of India’s top research
institutions may soon throw themselves open to postgraduate, perhaps even undergraduate,
science education. Research laboratories with the original mandate of developi
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| Recommended:
How to make a smarter Einstein
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ON INTELLIGENCE
Jeff Hawkins and Sandra Blakeslee
Times Books; $ 25 ... | Read.. |
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Infectious disease used to be a simple matter: This germ causes that illness.
Doctors just had to find the germ, kill it, and cure the disease. But the old
rules no longer apply. ... | 
