April 1, 2026

Science Chronicle

A Science and Technology Blog

April 1, 2026

Science Chronicle

A Science and Technology Blog

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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ICMR

Screening newborns for two metabolic disorders takes off

After much delay, the screening of one lakh newborn babies over a three-year period for two inborn errors of metabolism

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Glaucoma: misconceptions galore

Published in The Hindu on March 6, 2008 Cataract may be the most common cause of blindness. Fortunately, symptoms always

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Diabetes

Incidence of diabetes studied

Published in The Hindu on February 28, 2008 While the total number of diabetics in the country, which is known

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