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5th March, 2012
Tiny “bugs” may bring bonanza to Canadian miner
TORONTO: A small Canadian miner plans to enlist an army of ore-munching bacteria to help it extract base metals from a shale deposit in northern…
22nd August, 2011
Earth’s oldest fossils boost hopes for life on Mars
PARIS: Microfossils found in Australia show that more than 3.4 billion years ago, bacteria thrived on an Earth that had no oxygen, a finding that…
30th March, 2011
Doctors raise alarm over surge in antibiotics use
KARACHI, March 29: Speakers at a medical symposium on Tuesday observed that the misuse of antibiotics had emerged as a major health problem in Pakistan…