Science Reporter, Vol 31, Jan to Dec 1994, No. 1 to No. 12, bulk: Jan-Dec, 1994

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Identifier: LB-001-1-16-5-2

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Scope and Contents

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)