initiative that aims to educate people across the country about science through free mobile updates has been launched here, an official said today.'Science@Mobile' is an innovative scheme by IGNOU's National Centre for Innovations in Distance Education (NCIDE) in collaboration with Vigyan Prasar, a government body involved in science popularisation tasks."Now, interesting science facts, latest science...
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launched 'Science@Mobile'. The innovative scheme aims to educate people across the country about science through free mobile updates."Now, interesting science facts, latest science news, health tips, green tips, events and days of scientific importance will be at your fingertips with this service. The basic objective of this scheme is to exploit the potential of mobile phones for science popularisation...
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Open University's (IGNOU) National Centre for Innovations in Distance Education (NCIDE) in collaboration with Vigyan Prasar has launched 'Science@Mobile'. The innovative scheme aims to educate people across the country about science through free mobile updates."Now, interesting science facts, latest science news, health tips, green tips, events and days of scientific importance will be at your fingertips...
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Now, interesting science facts, latest science news, health tips, green tips, events and days of scientific importance will be at your finger tips. The National Centre for Innovations in Distance Education (NCIDE),, in collaboration with Vigyan Prasar has started an innovative scheme of science popularisation through mobile entitled “Science@Mobile”.The basic objective of this scheme is to exploit...
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Researchers have developed a virtual gaming environment to help blind people improve navigation skills and develop a cognitive spatial map of unfamiliar buildings and public locations.Dr. Lotfi Merabet, Department of Ophthalmology at Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, said that for the blind, finding their way or navigating in a place that is unfamiliar presents a real challenge, Science News re...
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Recent developments in health and science news. This week: Remembering the first Web site, a giant hurricane over Saturn and the world’s smallest movie. ...
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Everyone who's followed science news in the last couple years knows that graphene is the new sliced bread, but after the initial breakthrough and exitement, no one has been able to solve the riddle of current leakage. See, you have to pack transistors pretty tightly on a computer chip; each chip has to have regulated voltage in order to perform its task of being on or off. Graphene, even insulated...
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“Antibiotics may plump up cows, pigs, chickens, mice and humans alike,” reports Science News. “For decades, low doses of antibiotics have been given to livestock to make the animals grow and bulk up faster, but no one really knew how the drugs promoted growth. Now, researchers led by microbiologist Martin Blaser at the New York University School of Medicine report online August 22 in Nature...
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Researchers have developed a virtual gaming environment to help blind people improve navigation skills and develop a cognitive spatial map of unfamiliar buildings and public locations.Dr. Lotfi Merabet, Department of Ophthalmology at Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, said that for the blind, finding their way or navigating in a place that is unfamiliar presents a real challenge, Science News re...
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started in the early 1970s, but The New York Times would not mention the term until May 1, 1979, in a roundup of science news. “A new San Diego firm,” an article on Page C2 said, “plans to manufacture and sell antibodies produced artificially by tissue-culture techniques.”Antibodies circulate in the body until latching on to foreign cells, called antigens, which they destroy. Monoclonal antibodies...
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