Monthly Archives: September 2009

IIRS, India to use EDUSAT to interact with students

Chennai, India: Professors from the Indian Institute of Remote Sensing (IIRS), Dehradun, will soon interact via EDUSAT with students of the department of geography, University of Madras.With a new lease of funding coming in for the current academic year, a … Continue reading

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Nobel-winning agricultural scientist Borlaug dies

Norman Borlaug, the U.S. agricultural scientist who received the 1970 Nobel Peace Prize for developing high-yielding crops to prevent famine in the developing world, has died at age 95, Texas A&M University said.Borlaug, hailed as a central figure in the … Continue reading

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NASA Picks Site to Search for Water on Moon

While the Obama administration considers whether to fund a planned U.S. return to the moon, scientists will be scouring the surface of Earth’s satellite to search for a precious resource: water. NASA has been planning to return to the moon … Continue reading

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Global Warming Causes Outbreak Of Rare Algae Associated With Corals, Study Finds

A rare opportunity has allowed a team of biologists to evaluate corals and the essential, photosynthetic algae that live inside their cells before, during, and after a period in 2005 when global warming caused sea-surface temperatures in the Caribbean Ocean … Continue reading

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