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Do you see what I see?

Researchers estimate that 10 to 15 per cent of people whose eyesight is worse than 20/60 develop hallucinations which can vary from simple patches of colour or patterns to lifelike images of people, landscapes and phantasms of dreams.
 

The leap year visitor called Toutatis

Asteroid Toutatis crosses the earth’s orbit once every four years - almost every leap year. This year’s date falls on the 29th of September.
 

Stress-sensitive premises are here

Imagine the Taj Mahal, singing a lovelorn tune on full moon nights. Smart technology tools like FOS tools, laptops and Internet technology, could make that a reality.
 

GEOLOGY
Tablet-sized seismometer

A seismologist dream is about to come true. Simple and inexpensive, but outstandingly sensitive seismometers are ...
 

Harvesting precious rain

While saving precious water, rain water harvesting enables the use of water for irrigation, drinking and even pisciulture.
 

Better yield with less spray

Following an eco-friendly and need-based application of pesticides, farmers can reduce pesticide residues in the chilli harvest and benefit from higher returns.
 

SPACE SCIENCE
Genesis: the first return mission

The Science Meeting for Spirit, one of the Mars Exploration Rovers, was just over at JPL. We had our eyes glued to the ...
 

Check out this dino ‘mom’

Fossil hunters in China have unearthed the final resting place of an adult dinosaur with parental instincts.
 

YOUNG SCIENTIST: Dr RADDER
New findings on lizards

Dr Rajkumar Radder has elucidated the mechanism of trade-off between clutch and egg offspring sizes, prolonged egg retention, and provided experimental proof to the stress-induced evolution of viviparity hypothesis in reptiles.
 
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