Editorial: Highly skilled early knappers
Published in The Hindu on Mach 30, 2011 Though our early ancestors used stone tools for more than two million
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Acheulian stone tools discovered near Chennai
Acheulian stone tools, dating back to about 1.51 million years ago, have been discovered at Attirampakkam in the Kortallayar River
Read MoreEarthquake: unpredictability is its middle name
Published in The Hindu on March 24, 2011 How safe are nuclear plants located in countries that have faults cutting
Read MoreNaoto Kan: “What the hell is going on?”
Published in The Hindu on March 24, 2011 Japan’s Prime Minister Naoto Kan had every reason to ask the executives
Read MoreFukushima Daiichi: how the nuclear plant crisis happened
Published in The Hindu on March 14, 2011 The crisis at the three Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power stations came not
Read MoreEditorial: Use and misuse of the placebo effect
Published in The Hindu on March 16, 2011 Are placebos inert substances with no real therapeutic effect? Placebos go back
Read MoreEditorial: In search of a second earth
Published in The Hindu on March 10, 2011 The discovery of six exoplanets or extra-solar planets (planets outside the Solar
Read MoreEditorial: BMI and risk of death
Published in The Hindu on March 10, 2011 That obesity is a causal factor for many lifestyle diseases such as
Read MoreDying with dignity through ‘assisted suicide’
Published in The Hindu on March 10, 2011 “I think suffering is much more than a medical situation. There’s this
Read MoreDedicated lab for HIV vaccine design
Published in The Hindu on March 3, 2011 After conducting a couple of AIDS vaccine trials in India, the New
Read MoreEditorial: The killer aftershock
Published in The Hindu on February 25, 2011 Barely six months after Christchurch, New Zealand’s second largest city, was struck
Read MoreFor more accurate BP readings
Published in The Hindu on February 10, 2011 Hypertensive patients, why, even normal people, sensing their blood pressure rising as
Read MoreEditorial: Out of Africa
Published in The Hindu on February 3, 2011 Archaeological evidence in the form of stone tools discovered from Jebel Faya,
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