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Friday, May 3, 2013
Gold paint glowing, there's an illuminated manuscript page from The Book of Hours, dated 1514. A gruelling photograph of the standoff between strikers and militia at the Bread and Roses strike of...
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Thursday, May 2, 2013
Remains of 14-year-old girl suggest that starving settlers had to go to extreme lengths to survive harsh winter of 1609
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HYDERABAD,
Sunday, April 28, 2013
The 45-minute show takes viewers 14,000 years back in time. This is besides a ride through the dinosaur era. One can also travel around in time and traverse through Egypt and Sumeria and the ruins in southeastern Turkey that were discovered recently
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MADURAI,
April 17, 2013
It is over a decade since Indian scientists began formal work on one of the country’s biggest research projects in basic sciences: the India-based Neutrino Observatory or INO. Proposed to be set u...
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Washington,
January 11, 2013
After nearly a century of debate on whether heart muscle cells are generated after birth or they simply grow larger, researchers now say children and adolescents too generate these cells.Th...
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MERIDA,
December 21, 2012
Doomsday hour is here, at least in much of the world, and so still are we.
According to legend, the ancient Mayans’ long-count calendar ends at midnight on Thursday, ushering in the end o...
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October 21, 2012
We have to inculcate in people a proper scientific temper and help them use science and technology to rise out of their misery.
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September 21, 2012
A comprehensive atlas of the adult human brain that reveals the activity of genes across the entire organ has been created by scientists. The map was created from genetic analyses of about 9...
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women's issues, Centre for Women’s Development Studies,
July 30, 2012
The Centre for Women’s Development Studies, New Delhi, develops, promotes and disseminates knowledge about women’s roles in society and economic trends which affect their lives.
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July 23, 2012
Along with enhancing the remuneration package for social science researchers, the HRD Ministry has also increased the number of fellowships being handed out. For ICHR, the number of JFR has been in...
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July 18, 2012
Even nine-month-old infants can distinguish between speech and non-speech sounds in both humans and animals, a study says.
“Our results show that speech perception of infants is resilient...
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June 21, 2012
A new brain scan shows what it looks like when a person runs out of patience or loses self-control.
The study could also modify previous thinking that considered self-control to be like a...
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June 6, 2012
The earliest ancestors of modern human may have originated in Asia and not Africa as widely believed, according to a new study based on fossil discovery in Myanmar.
Previous fossil finds...
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LONDON,
March 14, 2013
In what is claimed to be a major breakthrough in explaining the relationship between absolute brain size and higher cognitive abilities, a team of British anthropologists has found that the reason...
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London,
January 1, 2013
Researchers believe they have solved one of the biggest puzzles in anthropology — whether Lucy, one of our famous ancestors, lived in the trees or on the ground.
Australopithecus afarensi...
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October 25, 2012
A new technology can analyse millions of gene sequences in a matter of seconds to identify diseases accurately, according to a new breakthrough.
Terry Brown, working with Charlotte Robert...
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Thiruvananthapuram,
October 3, 2012
A Kochi-based laboratory has completed the full sequencing and analysis of the first Malayali personal genome, revealing the genetic diversity of the linguistic group and signalling a revolution i...
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Thiruvananthapuram,
August 17, 2012
An expert team will be constituted to look into the allegations of unethical clinical trials being carried out in hospitals and private research centres in the State in violation of the norms sets...
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July 30, 2012
GUIDANCE PLUS The Govind Ballabh Pant Social Science Institute, Allahabad, maintains a national perspective on socioeconomic development with an interdisciplinary approach.
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July 23, 2012
Hike in remuneration for different fellowships offered by central research councils
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June 23, 2012
Interview with Kaushik Basu, Chief Economic Adviser, Ministry of Finance, on his work as Jury Chair of the Infosys Prize for Social Sciences
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June 21, 2012
Molecular and isotope analysis of absorbed food residues on potsherds revealed the details
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May 5, 2012
“But thatha (grandfather in Tamil), you must punish my brain, not me,” responded my eight-year-old grandson, on being reprimanded for a socially unacceptable behaviour. A few weeks earlier,...
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