April 3, 2026

Science Chronicle

A Science and Technology Blog

April 3, 2026

Science Chronicle

A Science and Technology Blog

Author: Prasad Ravindranath

HIVHIV/AIDSTuberculosis

Testing for tuberculosis, HIV co-infection

Published in The Hindu on May 22, 2008 A programme to routinely test patients infected with HIV for TB and

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IGCARNuclear energy

FBTR: plant to vitrify nuclear waste

Published in The Hindu on May 13, 2008 The third facility in the country to immobilise the high level nuclear

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IGCAR

ICGAR: producing efficient heat sinks using nanofluids

Tomorrow’s coolants for electronic devices and engines would come from magnetic nanofluids. And scientists at the Indira Gandhi Centre for

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IGCARNuclear energy

Fast breeder: generating power at 40 paise/unit less

Published in The Hindu on May 8, 2008 Research currently underway to increase the burn-up (cumulative amount of energy extracted

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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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