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Monday, June 29, 2009 4:47 PM

In the land of the Nobels

It's the Nobel season in the island town of Lindau in southern Germany, where every year around this time, Nobel laureates gather to interact, inspire and to some extent mentor, young researchers from all over the world. The meeting that started 58...
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Monday, May 18, 2009 4:33 PM

Who wants the science ministry???

Like the average hack, i'm curious who's going to take what portfolio in this post-election "yes-we-can" Delhi.. Specifically, what's going to happen in science and technology. Unlike the powerful Home ministry and the remunerative...
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Friday, January 09, 2009 12:57 PM

Indian science: memoirs & biographies, or lack of them?

If there's one aspect of Indian science that has disappointed many science lovers, it is a lack of brilliant accounts by scientists themselves - books that can give the adrenaline thrill of research to the readers. Medicine Nobel prize winner Peter...
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Monday, December 08, 2008 5:59 PM

Energy from the ocean: Redux

Here's some more on tapping energy from the oceans . Defence tech behemoth Lockheed Martin plans to revive its Ocean Thermal Engineering Conversion --using the natural temperature difference between surface and deep sea, to generate steam that could...
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