Butterfly wings to the aid of glaucoma patients
INSPIRED by tiny structures on transparent butterfly wings, scientists have developed a light-manipulating surface for more effective and longer-lasting eye implants for glaucoma patients. Researchers
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The boundary of no return
Scientists have recently discovered a black hole at the core of the Milky Way: this is the gravitational anchor around which all objects in the galaxy, including the sun, revolve.
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A mammoth river project
The 24-billion-dollar Three Gorges Project on the Yangtze river in China has aroused worldwide attention. When completed, it will have the largest hydroelectric power station in the
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Seeds of the future
The fourth conference of Parties of the Biodiversity Convention has taken several lanmark decisions, and some of them have major implications for India .
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Mining frenzy
Life may soon return to the dusty 19th century palace grounds of the Raja of Sandur in the Ramandurga hills near Hospet in Karnataka. A well-known private company is likely to buy the property and possibly restore the old buildings for offices. It will do this not for the site's historical worth, but for the value of what juts out of the ground around it: a thick vein of high-quality iron ore.
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Poisoned ground
IT was when the men in moon suits arrived that it really sank in. There they were, with breathing apparatus and impermeable all-in-ones, gingerly taking away the material that had been sitting for five years in an open-air scrapyard in the middle of the busiest part of town.
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A bitter farewell
Fourteen years and seven months after an experiment in Ukraine went unimaginably awry, spewing the radiation of dozens of Hiroshimas across Europe, workers at the Chernobyl nuclear complex gathered
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Fuelling power
The Nuclear Fuel Complex in Hyderabad is all set to expand its operations to cater to the increasing needs of the country's nuclear electricity
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The Dabhol mess
After years of battle, the Dabhol Power Company (DPC) and the Maharashtra State Electricity Board (MSEB) have initiated processes that could finally terminate the Enron-sponsored $3-billion, 2,184
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Coming to a head
Although the inevitable has happened, the show is far from over. On May 19, after almost two months of wrangling, the Enron-sponsored $3-billion Dabhol Power Company (DPC) issued a Preliminary