"Artificial" Pancreas to do Away with Diabetic Job 

When the natural insulin-producing mechanism doesn't function well, one has to take shots of insulin to keep diabetes under control.

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Doctors at Asian Institute of Gastroenterology have developed a kind of artificial pancreas that is Tucked under the skin. "It  is putting a SIM card in a phone". we can do it. by doing a one - cm Incision and giving local anesthesia," G.V. RaG, who is heading the islet research programme at AIG, Said.

source :- The Hindu 

      Iron in Sea can Help Combat Climate Change

Scientists at the university of Liverpool have found that adding iron to the sea could alleviate the impact of climate change.The team showed that much of the algae, which grow when iron is added to the sea, Dies and falls into the deep ocean, taking with it the carbon it has absorbed. they added several tonners of iron sulphate to 167 sq. km patch within an ocean eddy near antarctica which within a week, head Caused a large algae growth in the iron- limited but nutrient -rich ocean region. although algae, which Consists of microscopic marine plants and photosynthetic microbes, grows naturally in the ocean, there is only limited iron in sea water in this region, so adding iron makes it possible to grow algae.

                            Cabinet Clears Mars Mission 

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The union cabinet on August 3 cleared the Indian space research organization's mission to mass in 2013. the project, which come on the heels of the Chandrayaan mission to the moon, envisages putting A spacecraft in the red planet's orbit to study its atmosphere with  the help of the polar satellite  launch vehicle (PSLV). India joins the united states, russia, europe, japan and china in undertaking such an Effort.


source :- The Hindu 

       India Test Fires Supersonic Cruise Missile BrahMos

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India on july 29 test- fired BrahMos supersonic cruise Missile as part of a user trial by the Army from a Test range at chandipur off Odisha. The missile, which has a flight range of up to 290km, is capable  of Carrying a conventional  warhead of 300kg.




source :- The Hindu 

                               What is a Cuttle Fish ?

A cuttle fish is not a fish. It is a mollusc (fleshy animals without backbones ). It belongs to that class of huge molluscs which are "cephalopods"or "head- footed animals" they are called "head -footed", because of the peculiar formation of these sea -creatures- arrangement of their feet and arm like tentacles which grow around the head and the mouth;and the arm - like tentacles are extensions of their feet. octopus also belongs to this class of molluscs. 

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The cuttle fish has a remarkable characteristic. Its travels silently and smoothly through. the water, moving the row of fins which are pasted to its shield - shaped body.when it moves erects the first pair of its tentacles or feelers and when it comes within the attacking distance of its prey, it suddenly shoots out its two long tentacles from pockets which are placed in its brood head behind its staring bulging eyes. It grasps the victim with suckers which are placed at thee end of these tentacles and then draws it within the reach of four shorter pairs of tentacles, which also have suckers, and are arranged around its head. It had a parrot- like beak. It the victim has a hard shell, it can crush it with the beak if it decides to retreat from an enemy, it backs away quickly by forcing out water through a tube called "siphon" when it wants to discourage the enemy from chasing it, it darkness the water with a massive discharge of an ink-like fluid called "sepia".

source :- The Hindu 

        New Telltale Signs of Global Warming :- NASA

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Satellite images released by the national aeronautics and space administration (NASA), USA,on july 19, 2012 provided  concrete proof that global warming was speeding up. the images show that a Massive chunk of iceberg has broken off a glacier in greenland. the iceberg has broken off a glacier in Greenland the iceberg that detached itself  from the petermann glacier on the north- western cast of Greenland   is of the size of a big city . the glacier had produced a similar ice island twice as large in 2010.

Source :- The Hindu 

                 ISRO All Set to Complete A Hundred 

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September 9 is a big day. the indian space research organisation (ISRO) will launch its, 100 th space mission. it should herald a new direction in the country, quest to be among the top handful of nations with capabilities to harmpss space- based technologies for the public good.

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 It could well turn out to be a welcome change for prime minister manmohan singh - away from facing the ire of the opposition parties on a growing numbers of scams. the paime minister will get a ring side view (or bird's eye view) of the 100 th mission by the polar satellite Launch vehicle ( PSLV) from the space port at sriharikota, in the nearer district of Andhera Pradesh. India's  space Journey began in the mid - 1960 with rockets  from thumba and the launch of  arybhatta from thumba and the launch of Arybhatta from Russia in 1975 but the first Indigenous launch success came with the SLV 3  in 1979.


source :- The Hindu