June 6, 2026

Science Chronicle

A Science and Technology Blog

June 6, 2026

Science Chronicle

A Science and Technology Blog

Day: January 2, 2016

IGCARNuclear energy

PFBR: work on to increase the burn-up by 50 per cent

  Published in The Hindu on May 1, 2008 The current burn-up target for the mixed oxide fuel in the

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IGCARNuclear energy

Co-location of fuel reprocessing, refabrication

Published in The Hindu on May 1, 2008 The mixed oxide fuel for the upcoming Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor (PFBR)

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IGCARNuclear energy

Putting the FBTR to the litmus test

Published in The Hindu on May 1, 2008 IGCAR is taking up yet another challenge. The scientists are putting the

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IGCARNuclear energy

Metallic fuel for fast breeders after 2020

Published in The Hindu on May 1, 2008 Fast breeder reactors (the sixth reactor onwards) that would come up after

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IGCAR

FBTR: ‘We don’t see any problems with reprocessing’

Published in The Hindu on May 1, 2008 The Kalpakkam based Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research (IGCAR) has squeezed

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Avian influenzaEditorialVaccinesWHOWorld Health Organisation

Editorial: Transparency at last

Published in The Hindu on April 2, 2008 The tough stand taken by Indonesia on sharing its bird flu samples

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Clinical trialICMR

Register trials, insist Indian editors

Published in The Hindu on April 24, 2008 Publishing clinical trial results in Indian biomedical journals after January 2010 will

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FDANIH

Vioxx safety data manipulated

Published in The Hindu on April 24, 2008 The ghost of Vioxx is coming to haunt the pharmaceutical company Merck

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EditorialNIHOpen AccessOpen access journal

Editorial: Public funding and open access

Published in The Hindu on April 22, 2008 Of what use is a research, particularly when it is funded by

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DiabetesEditorial

Editorial: Need for early intervention

Published in The Hindu on April 21, 2008 Tamil Nadu’s imaginative screening programme launched a year ago has proved highly

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NIHOpen AccessOpen access journal

Open access gets a fillip

Published in The Hindu on April 17, 2008 Researchers, scientists and health workers across the world can now rejoice. Access

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Diabetes

How to detect true gestational diabetes

Published in The Hindu on March 27, 2008 The way pregnant women are tested for GDM makes it difficult to

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EditorialTuberculosisWHOWorld Health Organisation

Editorial: No time to lose

Published in The Hindu on march 20, 2008 If globally containing tuberculosis, the incidence of which is estimated to be

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