2015年3月19日 星期四

2015-03-20 India Science


The Hindu
   
Sparrow day: think out of the cage   
The Hindu
It is that time of the year when people — bird-lovers or not, nature conservationists or not — think why the city skies are less chirpy, literally. World Sparrow Day is being observed on Friday with various events. From putting up special nests to bring back the ...

It's myopic to justify conserving a species only for its usefulness to humankind ...   Daily News & Analysis
Start bird watching for a cause today   Times of India
BBMP forest cell bags Sparrow Award   Deccan Herald
Livemint   
Daijiworld.com   
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Daily News & Analysis
   
Venki Ramakrishnan named as next President of Royal Society   
Wellcome Trust
Professor Sir Venki Ramakrishnan, a Wellcome Trust Investigator, has been announced as the next President of the Royal Society. The Nobel Prize-winning structural biologist will take up the position in December 2015 when the current President, Sir Paul ...

Specially touched, says Venki   The Hindu
Venki elected to post Newton had held   Calcutta Telegraph
India-born Nobel laureate to head Royal Society in UK   Times of India
Huffington Post India   
NDTV   
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IBNLive
   
National Air Quality Index to debut in April   
Economic Times
NEW DELHI: The environment ministry will be launching the National Air Quality Index, a simple, composite, and easy to understand measure of air quality, on April 6. The index will measure the eight major pollutants that impact health - particulate matter (PM ...

Delhi air pollution   Calcutta Telegraph
Air pollution level in Delhi exceeds WHO limits   Times of India
Art meets science at air pollution kiosk   The Courier-Journal
Hindustan Times   
Daily News & Analysis   
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Calcutta Telegraph
   
Researchers say they can predict man-animal conflict   
Times of India
Nagpur: Pioneering research led by a Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) India Program scientist and three collaborators has established a reliable approach to predict when and where human-wildlife conflicts are likely to occur. Analysing conflict incidents ...

Tool to predict animal conflict hotspots   Calcutta Telegraph
Scientists map human-wildlife conflict based on elephant study   Zee News

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India Today
   
Conservationists bag prestigious Salim Ali Awards for their crusade to save nature   
India Today
Conservationists bag prestigious Salim Ali Awards for their crusade to save natureThe prestigious Salim Ali Awards of Bombay Natural History Society (BNHS) have been conferred on two distinguished individuals and a conservation group at a glittering ...

Conservationists honoured with Sálim Ali Awards for Nature Conservation   India Education Diary
BNHS recognizes the work of green stalwarts from global to local level to award ...   Times of India

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The Hindu
   
Over million young stars found in nearby galaxy   
The Hindu
Astronomers have discovered more than a million young stars forming in a hot, dusty cloud of molecular gases in a tiny galaxy near Milky Way. The star cluster is buried within a supernebula in a dwarf galaxy known as NGC 5253, in the constellation ...

Millions of young stars in nearby galaxy found   Business Standard
1 Million Stars Forming in Mysterious Dusty Gas Cloud in Nearby Galaxy   Tech Fragments
Stars being born in the nearby galaxy   Geek Snack

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Astronomy Magazine
   
Moon's most unusual volcano more massive than thought   
Business Standard
Scientists have produced a new map of the Moon's most unusual volcano showing that its explosive eruption 3.5 billion years ago spread debris over an area much greater than previously thought. A team of astronomers and geologists, led by experts at ...

Extent of Moon's giant volcanic eruption is revealed   Astronomy Magazine
Moon's most unusual volcano more massive than previously thought   Zee News
Moon's ancient giant volcanic eruption decoded   The Hans India

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Explore exotic marine life without leaving Gurgaon   
Times of India
GURGAON: The fisheries department plans to set up city's first aquarium-cum-seafood court-cum-library in Sector 29. Planned to be spread across one acre, the aquarium will house at least 100 varieties of ornamental fish species. The aquarium, which is ...


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EE Times India
   
Researchers streamline control over coal-based graphene   
EE Times India
Rice University scientists have made significant headway in the field of graphene research. According to Rice University lab chemist James Tour, graphene quantum dots made from coal can be engineered for specific semiconducting properties in either of ...

Quantum Materials Breaks Stokes Shift Barrier   IT News Online
Controlling Coal-based Graphene's Electronic, Fluorescent Properties   Controlled Environments Magazine
Quantum Dots from Coal Fine Tuned   Tech Fragments

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Daily Times
   
Earth's four-billion-year-old forecast reveals it had showers of vapourised metal   
Daily Times
How did iron become scattered throughout Earth's 2,000-mile (3,200km) thick mantle more than four billion years ago? That's a question that has puzzled scientists, with most thinking asteroid impacts were the cause, but now a new theory has been presented ...

Z machine confirms collision fueled iron rain fell on early Earth   Business Standard
Iron Rained Down on Early Earth, Z Machine Data Says   Tech Fragments
Asteroids Crash into Earth and Moon, Create Massive Amount of Vaporized Iron   New Hampshire Voice

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