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Science Chronicle

A Science and Technology Blog

April 7, 2026

Science Chronicle

A Science and Technology Blog

Day: January 9, 2016

Breast cancerCancerCervical cancerEditorialOral cancerSmokingTobacco

Editorial: Licensed to kill

Published in The Hindu on April 2, 2012 That tobacco products are singularly responsible for a large number of cancer

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Nature

New light on early bipedalism

Published in The Hindu on March 29, 2012 If the ability to walk and run on two legs (bipedalism) sets

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Breast cancerCancerOral cancerSmokingTobacco

‘Cancer killed 5.56 lakh in India in 2010’

Published in The Hindu on March 29, 2012 Cancer killed 5,56,400 people across the country in 2010. The 30-69 age

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Health

Cause of male baldness found

Published in The Hindu on March 22, 2012 Scientists have finally identified the culprits that are responsible for causing baldness

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IGCAR

IGCAR develops sensors to inspect defects in materials

Detecting and imaging structural defects like cracks, holes etc, present in components made of ferromagnetic materials like pipelines, railway tracks

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Diabetes

White rice intake increases risk of Type II diabetes

  Each serving of polished rice a day increases the risk of Type II diabetes by 11 per cent, according

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Blood pressure BP

Health consequences in adults with low birth weight studied

Published in The Hindu on March 15, 2012 A unique study has found that male adults born more than 20

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Health

More instances of plagiarism come to light

Published in the Hindu on March 9, 2012 Three more instances of plagiarism committed by C.N.R. Rao, eminent scientist and

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Diabetes

Novel study in TN to know gestational diabetes effects

Published in The Hindu on March 8, 2012 For the first time in the country, 14,000 pregnant women will be

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India

With alien seeds, Antarctica ‘no longer most pristine environment’

Published in The Hindu on March 6, 2012 Antarctica is no longer the “most pristine environment on earth.” Visitors are

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Editorial

Editrorial: The ways of science

Published in The Hindu on March 2, 2012 After announcing on September 23 last year that neutrinos travelled 60 nanoseconds

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PlagiarismPublishingResearchResearch Integrity

C.N.R. Rao’s paper: Fatal attraction of plagiarism

The scale of the infraction did not warrant rejection or retraction, as the plagiarised portions form only a part of

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BlindnessStem cells

Novel technique using stem cells revives damaged eye

Published in The Hindu on March 1, 2012 Treating blindness caused by burns using limbal stem cells harvested from the

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