The infectious agent can improve the efficiency of its batteries viruses just stormed the world of consumer electronics. A bit of genetic tweaking and they can make lithium ion batteries more efficient. For researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, US, this technology is an important breakthrough as it takes their drive for clean-energy technologies to a different

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Avian malaria also responsible for decline in vulture numbers diclofenac poisoning may not be the sole cause for the drastic decline of vulture populations in central and south India. A two-year long study says avian malaria had a part to play as well. The population of the Indian white-backed vulture (Gyps bengalensis) suffered a decline of over 95 per cent between 1988 and 1999,

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Mosquitoes are getting better at evading pest control for long mosquitoes have been resisting pest control. They are only getting better at it. From 1977 to 1997, India spent more than a quarter of its health budget on malaria control. Yet it remains a formidable public health challenge in the country. A Nigeria-based study by scientists at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine