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September 25, 2012

Persons in News: A.A.Manavalan

Saraswati Samman to A A Manavalan for his comparative study on Ramayana The esteemed Saraswati Samman was conferred on AA Manavalan for his work, Irama Kathaiyum Iramayakalyum. “Irama...

September 25, 2012

India and Burundi ink major pacts

During the visit President of the Republic of Burundi, India and Burundi signed 3 major agreements, which are as follows: (i) Exchange Programme for Cooperation in the field...

September 25, 2012

‘Endeavour’ retires

NASA’s Space shuttle Endeavour retired from the service and was sent to a museum.  About Endeavour: Endeavour was introduced as a replacement to Challenger, which exploded during launch...

September 25, 2012

Persons in News: Deepika Kumari

Deepika Kumari won silver in recurve event at World Archery Indian archer Deepika Kumari clinched silver medal in recurve event at World Archery in Tokyo. The gold was...

September 25, 2012

Faint Young Sun Paradox

There are two things. One is the astrophysical expectation that during the main sequence lifetime of earth, Sun’s output would be only 70% as intense at 2 billion...

September 25, 2012

Epigenetics / Methylation

Epigenetics refers to chemical changes in our genetic material and proteins that regulate it. The best-known epigenetic mark is the methylation, the addition of a methyl chemical group...

September 25, 2012

Biosignature

Any material or molecule or phenomenon – that provides scientific evidence of past or present life is called Biosignature. For example the Biosignature of early life on earth...

September 25, 2012

Craig Venter

Synthetic Genomics is the name of the company of Craig Venter who made headlines in 2010 by creating the first living organism called Synthia, with a synthetic genome....

September 25, 2012

Isopentenyl Pyrophosphate (IPP) in context with Malaria

The scientists at the Stanford University School of Medicine and the University of California-San Francisco have developed a novel technique to ‘tame’ the malaria parasite, by forcing it...

September 25, 2012

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