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Thursday, July 16, 2009 8:12 AM

Romancing the Moon

Today is the 40 th anniversary of man's landing on moon, lift-off actually, the landing was on July 20. The heady days of that 1969 summer will be re-lived and reminisced (depending on people's involvement) by many. Justifiably, media outlets...
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Wednesday, February 04, 2009 5:13 PM

Education enterprise: plural, singular, insular

India yesterday launched some $1 billion National Mission on Education , (NME) -- a project meant to get all the institutions in the country wired since so far only the well-heeled have been riding on the Internet wagon. Good programme; better late than...
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Wednesday, January 14, 2009 6:57 PM

Sound Check: Another Big Bang?

Would you have attended the recent 213th meeting of the American Astronomical Society, boring as it sounds. Like hell, i wish i had. Alan Kogut of Nasa's Goddard Space Flight centre, and his colleagues, reported "some new and interesting things...
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Friday, November 21, 2008 11:07 PM

Mars Orbiter strikes gold, oops, water!

Since astronomy is the flavour of the season - India shooting for the Moon , then first images and analysis from the Japanese lunar probe SELENE, the first ever direct images of exoplanets -- here are images that show several mid-latitude regions on Mars...
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