New insights into how geckos climb walls
Published in The Hindu on September 6, 2015 It is widely known that geckos and lizards employ dry adhesion system
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Pre-exposure prophylaxis prevents HIV infection in gay men
Published in The Hindu on September 13, 2015 Daily HIV medication (tenofovir-emtricitabine) to HIV negative gay men who run a
Read MoreAlcohol consumers in India face higher health risk, mortality
Published in The Hindu on September 17, 2015 Alcohol use is responsible for about 4 per cent of global burden
Read MoreASTROSAT spots Crab Nebula, the brightest X-ray source
Published in The Hindu on October 18, 2015 On October 9, ASTROSAT, the first Indian space observatory, spotted the Crab
Read MoreASTROSAT, India’s unique space observatory
Published in The Hindu on September 27, 2015 The launch of Indian Space Research Organisation’s (ISRO) ASTROSAT telescope today (September
Read MoreTwo objects fused to form Rosetta’s 67P comet
Published in The Hindu on October 4, 2015 The rubber-duck shaped comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko (67P) made up of a larger lobe
Read MoreFake journal publishing flourishes in India
A scam of the most scholarly kind on the Internet — publishing “scientific papers” in fake open access journals (also
Read More‘There is an absence of political will to give primacy to health’
India has to not only increase resources for healthcare but also radically transform the architecture of the country’s healthcare delivery
Read MoreRainwater harvesting from roads
The Chennai Corporation has taken the initiative to put in place the structures to harvest rain falling on certain roads. One can see
Read MoreSearch for AIDS vaccine continues even as Luc Montagnier wins the Nobel Prize for Medicine
Dr. V.D. Ramanathan, Senior Deputy Director at TRC, Chennai and the Principal Investigator of the Phase I AIDS
Read MoreMosquito net is the best way to keep malaria at bay
What a shame that millions are afflicted by malaria when all that is required is the use of a
Read MoreNobel Prize Medicine: Robert Gallo who claimed to have discovered HIV causes AIDS snubbed by the Nobel Prize committee
The Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine announced today gave the American fraudster Dr. Robert Gallo the snub that was
Read MorePhenol, Cadmium, lead in cigarette smoke
Did you know that cigarette smoke contains phenol? According to the U.S. Centre for Diesease Control and Prevention (CDC), cigaratte
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