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Is the doctor-drug industry nexus harming patients?
In the U.S. the drug industry spends more than $20 billion a year on marketing, about 90 per cent of which goes to doctors


Heavier hydrogen on the atomic scale reduces friction
New research, led by Robert Carpick of the University of Pennsylvania, found a significant difference in friction exhibited by diamond surfaces that had been coated with different isotopes of hydrogen and then rubbed against a small carbon-coated ...

Scientists act to save Tutankhamun’s face
Eighty-five years after the archaeologist Howard Carter first walked into Tutankhamun’s tomb in the Valley of the Kings, the rest of the world got its first glimpse of the most famous pharaoh in history. Recently, the boy ...

Neanderthals and climate change
Most extinction dates not near major cold eventsCompetition with modern humans a likely cause
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Paradigm shift in personal computing
The Internet emerges as the epicentre of new PC options


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FARMER'S NOTEBOOK
Need for conserving Malnad Gidda dwarf cattle breed
Frequent mating with other breeds has led to genetic dilution of this breed

Managing bruchid menace in pulses
Among the various insects attacking pulses, bruchid beetles, Callosbruchus sp., are notorious seed-eating insects and attack all types of pulses.Infestation of pulse seeds by bruchids commences in the field before the seeds ...


FARM QUERIES
Carnation flower size
The carnation flowers grown in my greenhouse are small in size. Is there any method for increasing the size of the flowers? K.S. RAO Andhra PradeshThough carnation is grown in ...


FARM QUERIES
Sapota yield
You can apply 750 gms of potash, 500 gms of super phosphate and 300 gms of urea ( once every year) about 2-3 feet away from the trunk and water regularly. ...


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