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2015-04-26 India Science


Economy Lead
   
Funds under compensatory afforestation meant for states: Javadekar   
Business Standard
The funds under the Compensatory Afforestation Fund Management and Planning Authority (CAMPA) are likely to be given to the state governments for undertaking afforestation programmes as the Centre is working on a statutory mechanism to facilitate it.
Evaluation of online applications in a month: Prakash Javadekar, Environment ...   Economic Times
Need to reduce timeline, increase accountability: Javadekar   Web India
India urges for greater cooperation between BRICS nations on climate change   YourStory.com
Microfinance Monitor   
Niticentral   
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CrazyEngineers
   
Wind Turbines & Automobile Engines To Benefit From Cheaper Magnetic Alloy   
CrazyEngineers
Currently, the high performance permanent magnets that are used in wind turbines as well as automobile engines make use of a rare earth element called 'Dysprosium' which is really costly and not available in abundance. As an alternative to this traditionally ...

Cheaper magnetic material for cars, wind turbines   ET Auto
New Magnetic Alloy Holds Promise as an Alternative to High-Performance Rare ...   Azom.com
Scientists create cheaper magnetic material for cars, wind turbines   Phys.Org

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RT
   
​DinoDrone! Australian scientists use UAVs to track dinosaur footprints   
RT
Drones and dinosaurs may seem like an unlikely combination, but scientists in Australia are using present-day technology to track pre-historic footprints. The prints were laid in Western Australia about 130 million years ago. Taking advantage of modern ...

Dino Drone! Paleontologists make use of modern technology to find hidden ...   Pc-Tablet Media
Queensland paleontologists use drone to get a bird's eye view of dinosaur ...   The News Reports
Drones provide bird's eye view of dinosaur tracks   Press Trust of India
Business Standard   
Times of India   
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Delhi Daily News
   
Human ancestors had tentacles?   
Delhi Daily News
A new study suggests that common ancestors of the humans had tentacles around 600 million years ago. The famous Vitruvian Man was drawn by Leonardo da Vinci and it pictures the canon of proportions of the humans. But the humans did not become ...

Our ancestors had tentacles, say researchers   Odisha Samaya
Human ancestors had tentacles, say researchers   The News Reports
Humans' ancestors had tentacles   Space Daily
Gizmodo India   
PerfScience   
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Zee News
   
Long-standing puzzle of 'galactic thin-thick disk' solved   
Business Standard
A team of astronomers has solved the long-standing puzzle regarding the nature of disk galaxies. The study from the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP), using state-of-the-art theoretical models, shows that groups of stars with the same age ...

To flare or not to flare: The riddle of galactic thin to thick disk solved   Science Daily

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The Register
   
Astroboffins mine data in pursuit of 11 lonely, homeless RUNAWAY GALAXIES   
The Register
Astronomers have observed no less than 11 runaway galaxies wandering aimlessly around in spaaace. The discovery was revealed by star-gazing boffin Igor Chillingarian of Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (HSCA) and Moscow State University, ...

Astronomers locate 11 Galaxies facing Lonely Future   Uncover California
Eleven Galaxies on the Run   Science Times
Runaway galaxies found, speeding at nearly 10 million kmph   Times of India
Business Standard   
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Ant research finds 49 species around Sakhali   
Times of India
PANAJI: Katt mui, tambddi mui, humlo and domlo are only some of the popularly known ants, as forays in the ant world to uncover the range of species have been few and far between in Goa. But now research in documenting 49 species belonging to 20 ...


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The Hindu
   
Oussudu lake, a fully protected wetland now   
The Hindu
Seven years after the Puducherry government declared the Oussudu lake as a birds' sanctuary, the Tamil Nadu Forest Department has finally woken up and declared 331 hectares of the wetland in its territory as a bird sanctuary. An important bird area, ...


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Rs. 25-crore grant to study if flowers talk to each other   
The Hindu
The grant will enable the National Centre for Biological Sciences to extend its work of training ecologists and students in the region as well as explore the uncharted territory of the northeastern forests.

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New York Times
   
Rays From Exploding Stars May Help Measure Strength of Thunderstorms   
New York Times
Scientists measure electric fields in thunderclouds with instruments aboard airplanes and weather balloons, but during violent conditions these methods can be difficult, even dangerous. Now researchers may have found a better way to measure these ...

Cosmic Rays From Exploding Stars May Help Us Understand Lightning   Tech Times
Exploding stars provide clues on electric fields of thunderclouds   Market Business News
Do cosmic rays trigger lightning?   Zee News
Nature.com   
Physics   
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