Science Reporter is published by the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) of India. It is a monthly popular science magazine in publication since 1964. It is published in English and covers all aspects of science and technology.
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The intellectual arrangement preserves publication month/year for Science Reporter. The collections are on loan at the Archives at NCBS. Series 1 contains available single issues and bound volumes on loan from the St John's Library in Bangalore, India. Each subsequent series will contain single issues and bound volumes not already present in Series 1, and from other institutions. Sub series within a series is by volume number (corresponding to year). Folders are chronological, arranged by month.
Science Reporter is published by the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) of India. It is a monthly popular science magazine in publication since 1964. It is published in English and covers all aspects of science and technology. Scope of each issue or bound volume is outlined in the folder-level description.
When quoting from this material, kindly use the following format: Collection id/identifier, name of collection, Archives (Eg LB-001-1-1-1-1, Science Reporter Magazine, Archives at NCBS).
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Science Reporter, Vol 7, August 1970, No. 8
Single issue from 1970. Includes article on X-rays from sun, equal sums of like powers, man-made elements, blood-fat in animal body, utilization of high inert coals
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Science Reporter, Vol 14, February 1977, No. 2
Includes article on genetic code; cyclotrons; applications of blood groups; how spiders catch their preys; metal complexes in analytical chemistry and industry
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Science Reporter, Vol 14, March 1977, No. 3
Includes article on particles and waves; chemical indicators through ages; amoebic dysentery; humans making genes
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Science Reporter, Vol 14, May 1977, No. 5
Includes article on electron microscope; gamma ray spectrometer; organotin chemicals in industry; unborn babies
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Science Reporter, Vol 14, June 1977, No. 6
Includes article on fusion power; binary system of calculating machines; mathematics for recreation; magnetic fields in human body; leaf synthesis; how animals communicate
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Science Reporter, Vol 14, July 1977, No. 7
Includes article on liposomes in the study of cell membranes; moons of mars; computers that talk and listen; how a tape recorder works; gallstones; lime or cement for building
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Science Reporter, Vol 14, August 1977, No. 8
Includes article on tidal power; life on other planets; Paul Dirac; quantized black hole; hormones influencing animal behaviour
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Science Reporter, Vol 14, September 1977, No. 9
Includes article on how man evolved; triticale - man-made cereal; safety of operation theatres; global warming and climate change
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Science Reporter, Vol 14, October 1977, No. 10
Includes article on origins of life; genetic counsellors; neutrons; powder metallurgy; antidiarrhoeal drugs
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Science Reporter, Vol 14, November 1977, No. 11
Includes article on malaria; ocean basins; sun-like stars; cyanide; television; short-sightedness
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Science Reporter, Vol 14, December 1977, No. 12
Includes article on nautilus geometry; intellectual machines; earthquakes; atmosphere of mars; tissue culture and plant propagation; mermaids
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Science Reporter, Vol 15, January 1978, No. 1
Includes article on sun; dynamics of rotating fluids; spiders; food additives; spectroscopy in forensic science
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Science Reporter, Vol 15, May 1978, No. 5
Includes article on polyalphabetic ciphers and cryptography; near absolute zero temperature; water in India; birth defects; auxin - plant growth hormone
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Science Reporter, Vol 15, June 1978, No. 6
Includes article on thermoluminescent dosimeters; Fischer projection formulae of optical isomers; pollen-problems and promises; enzymes
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Science Reporter, Vol 15, July 1978, No. 7
Includes article on moon; aerial photography; gene isolation; emotions and genes; caffeine; Newton-apple legend
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Science Reporter, Vol 15, August 1978, No. 8
Includes article on railway electrification; aether; liquid crystals; modified penicillins; primitive cultivars-wild relatives in plant breeding
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Science Reporter, Vol 15, September 1978, No. 9
Includes article on radiopharmaceuticals; proteins from Indian plants; genes; Indian muntjac-deer of research importance; infinity; neutron activation analysis
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Science Reporter, Vol 15, October 1978, No. 10
Includes article on ultrasonics and diseases; creation and destroying of matter; high temperatures; extracting oil from wells; grabbing nitrogen in air; Indian Ocean
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Science Reporter, Vol 15, November 1978, No. 11
Includes article on nuclear reactors; fall out radiation; radiation mutagens; shapes of molecules; drugs in mental and emotional illness; mushroom farming in India
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Science Reporter, Vol 15, December 1978, No. 12
Includes article on scanning electron microscope; topology; solar eclipse; Carolus Linnaeus and biological nomenclature
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Science Reporter, Vol 16, January to December 1979, No. 1 to No. 12
Bound volume for 1979, including articles on: Jan (Ajanta murals; world's worst weed; tornado-resistant buildings; rare earth metal; structured programming), Feb (coelacanths; modelling of the world; chemical communication in tiger; slags and fly ashes; versatile epoxy resins; Fraction I protein), Mar (Einstein; recombinant DNA; life on earth 200 million years ago; free energy concept in chemical reactions), Apr (protecting stone monuments; head injuries; oil-pollution of ocean; nuclear radiation in environment; solar radiation and crop-productivity), May (threatened plant species and conservation; gravitational waves; thermoplastic elastomers; transformation and transgenosis; autotrophic bacteria), Jun (disposal of radioactive waste; gasoline plantations; natural pigments as food colours; radioimmunoassay; counting numbers), Jul (green revolution in oceans; war on waste; xeroradiography; COBOL programming), Aug (stainless steel for surgical implants; ozone layer; bacteria use of sun for making food; inland fishes; ions), Sep (Jatinga bird, pneumatic structures; pi; respiratory complaints in hemp textile workers; potash potentials; aphids), Oct (regressive scientific research; microbial enzymes; atomic nucleus; railway; bioluminescence), Nov (blood; Dal lake; ribonucleic acids; carbon dioxide; earthquake-proof structures), Dec (automobiles and air pollution; laser sources; phytochrome plant pigment; immobilised enzymes to aid food industry)
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Science Reporter, Vol 17, January to December 1980, No. 1 to No. 12
Bound volume for 1980, including articles on: Jan (Science against superstition; DNA; capacity microphones; exponential variation with time; honeydew), Feb (emulsion fuels for rapid combustion; physics of candidate evaluation; wind effects on structures; microbial polysaccharides), Mar (Abdus Salam; unification of weak and electromagnetic forces; climate-crop relationship; Raman effect; drugs from algae), Apr (total eclipse; relativity; humour in science; thrombosis; genetic engineering techniques), May (wood as substitute for oil; elementary particles - strange, charming, colourful; dynamic electrochemical machining; ellipsometry; pesticide threat), Jun (space structures; laws of planetary motion; electromagnetic radiation in analytical chemistry; tick-borne disease of cattle; viruses and cancer), Jul (satellites for remote sensing of oceans; Schmidt rebound hammer; fluorides; plants that are meat-eaters; plant cuttings), Aug (DNA Helix; isomerism; hormone influence in reproduction; diabetes and blindness; belligerent bats), Sep (nuclear reactions; servomechanism; chromosome banding; hazards of smoking; chemical evolution), Oct (chloroplasts and ATP; infrared photography; industrial catalysts; Balmer series of atomic hydrogen), Nov (harnessing ocean heat; making a starfinder; fluorescent X-radiation), Dec (water hyacinths and water pollution; RuBPcase - wonder protein; pigs)
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Science Reporter, Vol 18, January to December 1981, No. 1 to No. 11
Bound volume for 1980, including articles on: Jan (insects attraction to light; mushroom cultivation; cable roofs), Feb (hypnotic drugs; time; contact angle in industry; metals and man), Mar-Apr (Planck's constant; Indian forests; explosives in industry; world water resources), May (acid rain; birds; outer membrane of gram-negative bacteria; obesity), Jun (logic of science, weather forecasting in India, spiders; BASIC programming language), Jul (metabolic intervention in heart attacks; cleaner auto exhausts; sugar from Indonesian palm; movement and distribution of food in plants), Aug (manganese nodules in Indian Ocean; non-Euclidean geometry; storage of sun's heat; menopause), Sep (laser fusion; evolution of the Himalaya; marine chemistry; solid electrolyte batteries), Oct (dew in plant ecology; interferon; energy from salt; transposons), Nov ('random thoughts on drawings'; treatment of water for power stations; dinosaurs; Lamarckism; radiopharmaceuticals), Dec (radiation protection measures; body fluids; haemoglobin in plants; wealth from waste-agricultural residue; testis-cytogenous gland)
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Science Reporter, Vol 19, January 1982, No. 1
Includes article on national calendar; hydrogen - fuel from solar energy; photoacoustic effect; oxygen; mycotoxins-poisons from fungi
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Science Reporter, Vol 19, February 1982, No. 2
Includes article on ozone; electricity from wind; dynamism in organic molecules; starvation
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Science Reporter, Vol 19, April 1982, No. 4
Includes article on exotic nuclei; PIXE spectrometry; universe - past, present, future; antibiotics and biosynthesis of proteins; inherited diseases
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Science Reporter, Vol 19, May 1982, No. 5
Includes article on chemical mutagens; ultrasonics in medicine; antiandrogens; agroforestry; puberty and adolescence
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Science Reporter, Vol 19, June 1982, No. 6
Includes article on 'metals that remember'; spontaneous mutations; screen process printing; nitrosamines - carcinogens
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Science Reporter, Vol 19, July 1982, No. 7
Includes article on thermoluminescence; tritium; proteins traveling through membrane; solid-liquid separation
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Science Reporter, Vol 19, August 1982, No. 8
Includes article on Antarctica and Indian scientists; energy plantation for power generation; plasmids; natural rubber; perils of smoking
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Science Reporter, Vol 20, January to June 1983, No. 1 to No. 6
Bound volume for 1980, including articles on: Jan (Changing environment and the Ice Ages - evidence from Kashmir; windspeed and crop response; telematics; molds, mycotoxins and mycotoxicoses), Feb (Slurry and gel explosives, organ transplantation; Calvin Cycle; psychological basis of origin of cancer; singlet molecular oxygen), Mar (Halley's Comet, cardiac devices; chronoendocrinology; quality aspects for drinking water), Apr (Negative absolute temperatures; toxic trace metals in aquatic environments; catalysis by molecular sieve zeolites; winter birds of Dudhwa), May (Thar desert; Indian scientific and technological culture since Independence; locating Mercury in the sky; thermoluminescence radiation dosimetry; opiate peptides), Jun (energy conservation; bio-glass as implant material; discovery of W-boson; vitamin C; medical uses of cyclotrons)
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Science Reporter, Vol 20, July 1983, No. 7
Includes article on genetic engineering; mechanism of hormone action; mechanisation of algebra; ion exchange in metal recovery; rocket propellants
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Science Reporter, Vol 20, August 1983, No. 8
Includes article on chemicals that pollute the environment; gravitational shift; target drugs; cultivation of Rattan cane in Indonesia; development of non-Euclidean geometry
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Science Reporter, Vol 23, April 1986, No. 4
Includes article on robots for productivity; electronic glasses; heterogeneous photocatalysis; palm oil and palm kernel oil; gallstones; fungi
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Science Reporter, Vol 23, May 1986, No. 5
Includes article on computers that run on light; aid to understanding AIDS; genes for cancer; chemistry of coenzyme B12
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Science Reporter, Vol 23, June 1986, No. 6
Includes article on gold therapy for arthritis; testing material with radiation; organic semiconductors; Big Bang
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Science Reporter, Vol 23, July to December 1986, No. 7 to No. 12
Bound volume for 1986, including articles on: Jul (Halley's comet; lowest mass stars; cytokinin; medical uses of fluorescence excitation analysis; organic solids; cryptography), Aug (biotechnology for enhanced oil recovery; el Nino-the climate changer; photochemical nitrogen fixation; liposomes), Sep (Geomagnetism; crops that need heat to grow; controlled drug release; whales; video programme on a research and development laboratory), Oct (robot mathematics; amorphous semiconductors; polymers in medicine; how plants fight insects; upwelling-an oceanic phenomenon), Nov (space probes to Saturn; superconductivity; biological and abiological nitrogen fixation), Dec (origin of atmospheric ozone; Jatinga; immunity to cancer; submerged weeds)
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Science Reporter, Vol 24, January 1987, No. 1
Includes article on superconducting super collider; tissue transplantation; bioluminescence
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Science Reporter, Vol 24, February 1987, No. 2
Includes article on National Science Day; upper atmosphere research; nuclear power and energy; Nehru and management of science and technology in India; drug research; encilite catalyst; pollution control
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Science Reporter, Vol 24, March 1987, No. 3
Includes article on scorpion poisoning; Cerenkov radiation; lasers in defence
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Science Reporter, Vol 24, April 1987, No. 4
Includes article on solar atmosphere; optical fibres; prodrugs; zero gravity in materials processing; high performance engineering plastics; structural engineering developments
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Science Reporter, Vol 24, May 1987, No. 5
Includes article on magnetic monopoles; lower ionosphere; infrared detectors; DNA repair mechanisms
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Science Reporter, Vol 24, July to December 1987, No. 7 to No. 12
Bound volume for 1987, including articles on: Jul (coral reefs; ion exchangers; desert reptiles of India; chemistry of schizophrenia), Aug (mathematics of spirograph; fermentation in industry; Chinese herbal drugs; peaceful uses of explosives), Sep (India's past journey; AIDS - an update; industrial application of enzymes; Pi), Oct (exercise and addiction; mathematical paradoxes; hormones; metal chelates; evolution of nervous and endocrine systems), Nov (langurs of India; rubber; lead and toxicity), Dec (Ramanujam, quantum mechanics, polyamine biosynthesis)
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Science Reporter, Vol 25, January to June 1988, No. 1 to No. 6
Bound volume for 1988, including articles on: Jan (space-earth's protective mantle; Baltimore Oriole; tannins), Feb (Raman Effect, and Raman and children; shuttling to earth orbit; weird world of insects), Mar (Famous problems in mathematics; polyamines; polymer blends; interaction of environment with biological systems), Apr (man-made organisms; India's remote sensing satellite; rubbers; turtles and tortoises of India; autoimmunity), May (obesity; monsoons; science museums in India; EPR paradox), Jun (fluorine; drugs from the sea; photosynthesis and crop productivity in rice; Abacus to artificial intelligence; animal foods)
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Science Reporter, Vol 25, July 1988, No. 7
Includes article on Tokamak: the man-made sun; synthetic tracks for sports and games; plant cell culture for high-value metabolites; xenobiotics in the body; algae and their utility
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Science Reporter, Vol 25, August 1988, No. 8
Includes article on superconductivity-the journey from cold to hot; radiation and radioisotopes in industry; ozone damage to crops; fats in nutrition and disease
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Science Reporter, Vol 26, April-May 1989, No. 4
Includes article on quantum physics and the nature of physical reality; making best use of wastewater; smoking-a hazardous addiction; new uses of jute; human genetic disorders
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Science Reporter, Vol 26, Jul-Aug 1989, No. 6
Includes article on mystery of migration; liquid fuel from solid waste; gout; scientific method; ozone depletion
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Science Reporter, Vol 26, Sep 1989, No. 7
Includes article on macaques; diabetes; managing nuclear waste; universe through ages; selenium
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Science Reporter, Vol 26, Oct 1989, No. 8
Includes article on hydrogen; neptune and Voyager-2; nuclear fission; lizards
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Science Reporter, Vol 26, Nov 1989, No. 9
Includes article on Nehru's vision of science; Nehru and scientific temper; science in the service of community; light communication; man or machine: who counts the votes; mating and breeding behaviour of snakes; migration ofmottled emigrant butterly
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Science Reporter, Vol 26, Dec 1989, No. 10
Includes article on alcohol and addiction; electron microscope; cooking oils; Nobel Prize winners in Science in 1989; jet-lag and long distance travel
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Science Reporter, Vol 27, Jan 1990, No. 1
Includes article on 'our vanishing plants'; pilgrimage to Royal Botanical Gardens at Kew; insects' threat to forest wealth; sun-weather connection; Indian Institute of Science (IISc)
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Science Reporter, Vol 27, Feb 1990, No. 2
Includes article on bridging vision-relaity gap; does science benefit society; integration of science, technology and productivity for well-being and advancement of all people; why talk science to society
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Science Reporter, Vol 27, Mar 1990, No. 3
Includes article on supernoa; birds as feathered musicians; semiconductor memory; National Institute of Immunology (NII)
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Science Reporter, Vol 27, Apr 1990, No. 4
Includes article on portable power - batteries; perils of unnumeracy; origins of modern Indian science; Central Food Technological Research Institute (CFTRI)
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Science Reporter, Vol 27, May 1990, No. 5
Includes article on new geometry of nature; fascinating infinity; useful weeds - water hyacinth; Antarctic meteorites; Defence Institute of Physiology and Allied Sciences
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Science Reporter, Vol 27, Jun 1990, No. 6
Includes article on bamboo growth; Magellan-mission to Venus; theory on the sun's companion, Nemesis; space chambers: simulating space on earth; National Chemical Laboratory (NCL)
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Science Reporter, Vol 27, Jul 1990, No. 7
Includes article on forecasting monsoon rain; oceanic phenomena and influence on weather; sunspots and weather; National Institute of Nutrition (NIN)
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Science Reporter, Vol 29, Aug 1992, No. 8
Includes article on auroras: moving lights in the sky; selling research - strategy for making research industrially viable; sunspots; potatoes as source of nutrition and raw material
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Science Reporter, Vol 29, Sep 1992, No. 9
Includes article on colourful attire of birds as feathered disguise; Indian science and state-funding; account of counting and story of numbers
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Science Reporter, Vol 29, Oct 1992, No. 10
Includes article on origin of constellations; modelling the human brain; refuse for reuse-treating garbage with enzymes; interview between G Venkataraman and Biman Basu on how science must work for the people
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Science Reporter, Vol 29, Nov 1992, No. 11
Includes article on JBS Haldane - 'life of a prodigious mind'; 'Social Applications of Human Genetics (written by JBS Haldane); 'Remembering Haldane'; 'Haldane and genetics in India'; people who first construed shapes in constellations
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Science Reporter, Vol 29, Dec 1992, No. 12
Includes article on comet Swift-Tuttle; aircraft black boxes; origin of cosmic rays; Nobel Prizes 1992; giant panda
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Science Reporter, Vol 30, Jan to Dec 1993, No. 1 to No. 12
Bound volume for 1993, including articles on: Jan (Vidyasagar Setu- cable-stayed bridge across Hooghly; secrets of sleep), Feb (properties of leather; Central Leather Research Institute-CLRI; Indian leather exports; choosing footwear; making leather and tannery; Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope-GMRT), Mar (aquariumand biology of fishes; vaccine production in India; aquaranching and fisheries; Maxwell and the electromagnetic theory), Apr (Neem plant and its uses; CORE project in Caribbean and oceanography; satellite use for crop observation; doing science as a way of life), May (Konkan railway project; 'The Wonderful Liquid' - article on water; article on DS Kothari titled 'A Stargazer turned Weapon Maker'), Jun ('Forty Years After' - story on DNA history; drug production in India in article titled 'Chemistry of Freedom'; space science and industry; monsoon predictions), Jul (computer graphics; Indian defence industry and development of the first Main Battle Tank; profile of Tycho Brahe; material used in packaging industry), Aug (supercomputers; Mars; Nathaniel Wallich - 'the great plant explorer'; parrots of the world), Sep (rural automatic exchanges and telecom network; why floods recur; fly-by-wire aircrafts; locating underground water), Oct (Meghnad Saha; India's space scientists; solar control of the atmosphere; 'Stella Mira: The Wonderful Star'; radiotracking to understand animal behaviour), Nov (Aditya - the plasma research reactor; infectious diseases; better breeds of garden plants; growth of ginseng in India), Dec (building roads on borders of India; resource use patterns versus population numbers; tuberculosis and AIDS; Nobel Prize winners of 1993)
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Science Reporter, Vol 31, Jan to Dec 1994, No. 1 to No. 12
Bound volume for 1994, including articles on: Jan (mastering nuclear reactor technology; SN Bose; cholesterol; understanding our origins), Feb (rejuvenating the Ganga; Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar; JRD Tata; diversity of plants), Mar (Project Tiger; malaria; chlorophyll; character traits of inventors), Apr (construction of the human genetic map and the Human Genome Project; interview with Jean Dausset; MST Radar), May (drilling of oil; alternate fuels; cultivation of crops for fuel production - petrocrops; encilites - zeolite catalysts; Samuel Morse and the Morse Code), Jun (destruction of forests; ecology for the people - traditional folk knowledge and scientific knowledge; recycling of plastics; Bharat Heavy Electronics Limited - BHEL; interview with Roger Penrose; ecology in a simulated space colony - Biosphere 2; profile of Alexander G Bell), Jul (composite material; Jupiter being hit by Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9; nurseries for shrimp and freshwater fishes in Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu; psychoanalytical aspects of suicide; observing meteor showers; engineering graduates opting for civil services and non-engineering jobs; profile of Chester Carlson - inventor of xerography), Aug (monsoon predictions; mathematical reasoning behind chaotic natural phenomena; 25 years of man's landing on the Moon; synthesis of potential cancer drug - taxol; composite materials; profile of Thomas Alva Edison), Sep (irradiation to preserve food; construction of indigenous frigates for Indian defence; profile of G Marconi), Oct (Channel Tunnel - undersea tunnel between France and the UK; development of scanning tunneling microscope; interview with Hermann Bondi on origin of universe; an account of the tiger by Kailash Sankhala; history of the invention of radar; industrial uses of diamond; flying jets at low altitude to reduce damage to ozone layer), Nov (resurgence of the plague in India; indigenous substitutes for heart valves; olfactory signals; history of invention of aeroplane; coal), Dec (PSLV-D2 and global satellite launch market in India; patenting a gene for a novel protein; interview with Werner Arber on microbiology; Nobel Prize winners for 1994; use of smoke in war and peace; history of discovery of penicillin)