In February, 100 odd people got together at the quaint little town of Baramati. All had a common goal: to exchange ideas on the use of information and communication technologies ICT for development. Tucked away in the heart of south Maharashtra s sugar

After he was done with the phonograph and the electric bulb, the American scientist Thomas Alva Edison focused his attention on a living doll with perfectly feminine features. For years the prolific inventor remained obsessed with the bizarre thought of l

The world s powers celebrated Christmas 2003 in style: they sent robotic geologists to the red planet Mars, Earth s uninviting and hostile neighbour. Two major space faring powers, the European Union and the US, extended their race for space supremacy to

Thirty years after they were abandoned for good, nuclear reactors are making a fatal comeback in the US spacecrafts. In 2003, the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration NASA was notified about a federal commitment of US $3 billion to develop n

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