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WASHINGTON: NASA announced a Grand Challenge on Tuesday to enlist government agencies, industry, academics and citizen astronomers in the hunt for asteroids that could cause massive destruction. The US space agency said the challenge would complement another recently... 
PARIS/DUBAI: Boeing has shown airlines a blueprint for the world’s longest-range passenger jet, adding spice to a long-awaited revamp of its 777 wide-body jet, people familiar with the matter said. Boeing on Wednesday launched a race against Airbus... 
As the volcanic island of El Hierro, the smallest of Spain’s Canary Islands, rumbled and groaned over the course of seven months in 2011 and 2012, gases silently percolated up through the island’s soil and groundwater. Eventually, a spectacular... 
MOSCOW: Russian astronauts will take an unlit Olympic torch on a space walk ahead of the country’s hosting of the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, the deputy head of the Russian space agency said Sunday. “It will not... 
Consumers hoping to buy a set of Google’s Glass networked spectacles will have to wait until 2014, according to Google chairman Eric Schmidt. The first wave of Explorer Edition Glass headsets, began shipping to developers this week, but for those who... 
WASHINGTON: There may be no place like home, but a NASA survey has found three planets that may come close. The Kepler planet-hunting satellite has pinpointed three so-called “super-Earth” sized planets orbiting their stars at a distance that... 
WASHINGTON, April 17, 2013 - Google suffered disruptions on several of its cloud-based services including Google Mail for about two hours Wednesday for reasons that were not disclosed. The apps status dashboard of the world’s most popular search engine... 
A top tech website has claimed the PC era is over, and Microsoft Windows is coming to a dead end. Calling the latest operating system a “failure” and Microsoft’s leaders “idiots,” ZDNet’s well respected Steven J Vaughn-Nichols pointed... 
Google says it will allow users to decide what happens to their data after they die or become inactive online, the first major company to deal with the sensitive issue. The feature applies to email, social network Google... 
Washington: Oxford University scientists have developed a custom-built programmable 3D printer that can create materials with several of the properties of living tissues. The new type of material consists of thousands of connected water droplets, encapsulated within lipid... 
The first mobile phone call was made 40 years ago yesterday, on 3 April 1973. Martin Cooper, a senior engineer at Motorola, called a rival colleague at another telecoms company and announced he was speaking from “a ‘real’... 
They once faced imminent death but have now been offered princely accommodation two French zoo elephants who had been ordered put down are moving to a ranch belonging to Monaco’s ruling Grimaldi family. Baby, 42, and Nepal, 43,... 
ASTROPHYSICISTS witnessed the rare event of a black hole awakening from its slumber to snack on a planet-sized object in a galaxy 47 million light years away, the University of Geneva said today. The observation made using the... 
SAN FRANCISCO, March 28, 2013 - A video game centered on a wordless walk across a picturesque desert walked away with top honors Thursday at the major Game Developers Conference in San Francisco. ‘Journey’ created by That game company... 
CALIFORNIA: The first crossing of the United States by a solar-powered plane is expected to start in just over a month, its creators said on Thursday, as they make final preparations for an attempt two years from now... 
LONDON – British scientists have developed a new vaccine against foot-and-mouth disease that is safer and easier to manufacture, an advance they believe should greatly increase production capacity and reduce costs. The technology behind the livestock product might... 
Billions of dollars are needed to keep the Earth safe from asteroids like the one that smashed into Russia last month, experts have told the US government. While NASA has made good progress cataloging nearly 93 per cent... 
Researchers at Hewlett-Packard Co. have developed a way to put glasses-free 3-D video on mobile devices with a viewing angle so wide that viewers can see an object more fully just by tilting the screen. Glasses-free 3-D is... 
SAN FRANCISCO — Google added views from some of the world’s tallest mountains to scenes woven into its popular online map service. Arm chair explorers were invited to take virtual adventures with members of Google’s Street View team... 
Children suffering from intestinal worms can now be diagnosed using a mobile phone microscope that is significantly cheaper than conventional methods, which are prohibitively expensive for many people. The microscope costs around US$15 and runs off the phone’s... 
LONDON, Thu Feb 28, 2013 – Scientists from a British cancer charity are teaming up with technology gurus from the likes of Amazon, Facebook and Google to design and develop a mobile game aimed at speeding the search... 
LOS ANGELES – There’s a new spin on supermassive black holes: They’re incredibly fast, astronomers say. It’s long been suspected that gigantic black holes lurking in the heart of galaxies rotate faster and grow larger as they feast... 
Earth-like worlds may be closer and more plentiful than anyone imagined. Astronomers reported Wednesday that the nearest Earth-like planet may be just 13 light-years away — or some 77 trillion miles. That planet hasn’t been found yet, but... 
LEICESTER, England: A skeleton with a cleaved skull and a curved spine entombed under a car park is that of Richard III, scientific tests confirmed, solving a 500-year-old mystery about the final resting place of the last English... 
SYDNEY, Jan 15, 2013 – An Australian researcher who discovered a new species of flying frog near Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam and named it after her mother said Tuesday it was a rare find so close... -
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Science
NASA enlists public in hunt for major asteroids
By: Afraz Ahmed, Uploaded: 19th June 2013
WASHINGTON: NASA announced a Grand Challenge on Tuesday to enlist government agencies, industry, academics and citizen astronomers in the hunt for asteroids that could cause massive destruction. The US space agency said the challenge would complement another recently announced project to use a robot to redirect an asteroid into the Moon’s orbit so astronauts could... Boeing plans to build world’s longest passenger jet
By: Reuters, Uploaded: 3rd May 2013
PARIS/DUBAI: Boeing has shown airlines a blueprint for the world’s longest-range passenger jet, adding spice to a long-awaited revamp of its 777 wide-body jet, people familiar with the matter said. Boeing on Wednesday launched a race against Airbus for sales of the newest long-haul jets by announcing it had begun selling an upgraded aircraft family... Helium Gas Heralded Underwater Volcano Eruption
By: Hassaan Ali, Uploaded: 30th April 2013
As the volcanic island of El Hierro, the smallest of Spain’s Canary Islands, rumbled and groaned over the course of seven months in 2011 and 2012, gases silently percolated up through the island’s soil and groundwater. Eventually, a spectacular plume appeared off the southern coast of the island, a sign that El Hierro volcano, an underwater volcano... Russian astronauts to take Olympic torch on space walk
By: AFP, Uploaded: 29th April 2013
MOSCOW: Russian astronauts will take an unlit Olympic torch on a space walk ahead of the country’s hosting of the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, the deputy head of the Russian space agency said Sunday. “It will not be a copy but exactly the same as the torch at the Olympics,” deputy head of Russia’s... Google Glass will be released next year to the public
By: Aqsa Ishtiaque, Uploaded: 23rd April 2013
Consumers hoping to buy a set of Google’s Glass networked spectacles will have to wait until 2014, according to Google chairman Eric Schmidt. The first wave of Explorer Edition Glass headsets, began shipping to developers this week, but for those who missed out on the hardware’s initial run, it looks like patience will be a virtue. In an interview... Astronomers find Earth-like planets
By: Monitoring Desk, Uploaded: 19th April 2013
WASHINGTON: There may be no place like home, but a NASA survey has found three planets that may come close. The Kepler planet-hunting satellite has pinpointed three so-called “super-Earth” sized planets orbiting their stars at a distance that could support water and therefore life. Two of the planets seem ideal for life, and could even... Google mail strucks for 2 hours
By: AFP, Uploaded: 18th April 2013
WASHINGTON, April 17, 2013 - Google suffered disruptions on several of its cloud-based services including Google Mail for about two hours Wednesday for reasons that were not disclosed. The apps status dashboard of the world’s most popular search engine indicated “service disruptions” for Google Mail, Google Drive, Google Documents, Google Spreadsheets and Google Presentations. It also... MS windows coming to a dead end?
By: Monitoring Desk, Uploaded: 17th April 2013
A top tech website has claimed the PC era is over, and Microsoft Windows is coming to a dead end. Calling the latest operating system a “failure” and Microsoft’s leaders “idiots,” ZDNet’s well respected Steven J Vaughn-Nichols pointed out that Metro-interface operating systems have already failed. Vaughn-Nichols wrote in an essay on the site that... Google initiates tool to findout data use after death
By: Alize Ahmed, Uploaded: 12th April 2013
Google says it will allow users to decide what happens to their data after they die or become inactive online, the first major company to deal with the sensitive issue. The feature applies to email, social network Google Plus and other accounts. Users can choose to delete data after a set period of time, or... 3D printer which can produce synthetic tissues
By: Aqsa Ishtiaque, Uploaded: 5th April 2013
Washington: Oxford University scientists have developed a custom-built programmable 3D printer that can create materials with several of the properties of living tissues. The new type of material consists of thousands of connected water droplets, encapsulated within lipid films, which can perform some of the functions of the cells inside our bodies. These printed “droplet... Mobile phone celebrated 40th anniversary
By: Alize Ahmed, Uploaded: 4th April 2013
The first mobile phone call was made 40 years ago yesterday, on 3 April 1973. Martin Cooper, a senior engineer at Motorola, called a rival colleague at another telecoms company and announced he was speaking from “a ‘real’ cellular telephone”. In 2012 a report carried out by the International Telecommunication Union found that there were... Archive France death row elephants to get royal treatment
By: Fawad Khan, Uploaded: 3rd April 2013
They once faced imminent death but have now been offered princely accommodation two French zoo elephants who had been ordered put down are moving to a ranch belonging to Monaco’s ruling Grimaldi family. Baby, 42, and Nepal, 43, had faced an execution order since last year over a suspected tuberculosis infection deemed a threat to... Sleeping black hole eats planet-sized mass for breakfast as scientists watch
By: AFP, Uploaded: 3rd April 2013
ASTROPHYSICISTS witnessed the rare event of a black hole awakening from its slumber to snack on a planet-sized object in a galaxy 47 million light years away, the University of Geneva said today. The observation made using the European Space Agency’s INTEGRAL satellite project, revealed a black hole that had been slumbering for years chomping... Unusual ‘JOURNEY’ video game tops with game makers
By: AFP, Uploaded: 2nd April 2013
SAN FRANCISCO, March 28, 2013 - A video game centered on a wordless walk across a picturesque desert walked away with top honors Thursday at the major Game Developers Conference in San Francisco. ‘Journey’ created by That game company and released last year as a download to Sony PlayStation 3 consoles claimed six Game Developers Choice... Solar plane to set out to cross U.S. in early May
By: Reuters, Uploaded: 1st April 2013
CALIFORNIA: The first crossing of the United States by a solar-powered plane is expected to start in just over a month, its creators said on Thursday, as they make final preparations for an attempt two years from now at the first round-the-world flight without any fuel. Swiss pilot Bertrand Piccard and project co-founder and pilot... UK scientists develop safer foot-and-mouth vaccine
By: Aneeta Karim, Uploaded: 28th March 2013
LONDON – British scientists have developed a new vaccine against foot-and-mouth disease that is safer and easier to manufacture, an advance they believe should greatly increase production capacity and reduce costs. The technology behind the livestock product might also be applied to make improved human vaccines to protect against similar viruses, including polio. The new... NASA chief: Earth is DOOMED if we spot a big asteroid at short notice
By: Afraz Ahmed, Uploaded: 21st March 2013
Billions of dollars are needed to keep the Earth safe from asteroids like the one that smashed into Russia last month, experts have told the US government. While NASA has made good progress cataloging nearly 93 per cent of larger Near-Earth Objects (NEOs), smaller meteorites like the Chelyabinsk one – which was around 17m wide... NASA denies report that Voyager left solar system
By: Aqsa Ishtiaque, Uploaded: 21st March 2013
The US space agency on Wednesday denied a claim made in a scientific study that its Voyager 1 spacecraft had left the solar system, describing the report as ‘premature.’ Scientists are eagerly awaiting signs that the craft, which was launched in 1977 on a mission to study planets, has become the first man-made object to... HP develops glasses-free 3-D for mobile devices
By: AP, Uploaded: 21st March 2013
Researchers at Hewlett-Packard Co. have developed a way to put glasses-free 3-D video on mobile devices with a viewing angle so wide that viewers can see an object more fully just by tilting the screen. Glasses-free 3-D is not unique. Nintendo Co. Ltd.’s 3DS handheld allows videogame play in 3-D without glasses, but it requires... Google Maps Brings you Images from Mount Everest
By: AFP, Uploaded: 19th March 2013
SAN FRANCISCO — Google added views from some of the world’s tallest mountains to scenes woven into its popular online map service. Arm chair explorers were invited to take virtual adventures with members of Google’s Street View team to Aconcagua in South America; Kilimanjaro in Africa, Mount Elbrus in Europe, and Mt. Everest base camp... Mobile phone can now detect worm infections
By: Fawad Khan, Uploaded: 13th March 2013
Children suffering from intestinal worms can now be diagnosed using a mobile phone microscope that is significantly cheaper than conventional methods, which are prohibitively expensive for many people. The microscope costs around US$15 and runs off the phone’s battery, whereas a conventional light microscope costs US$200 and requires electricity in most countries. To build the... Facebook, Google Tech Gurus To Design Cancer Research Game
By: Reuters, Uploaded: 1st March 2013
LONDON, Thu Feb 28, 2013 – Scientists from a British cancer charity are teaming up with technology gurus from the likes of Amazon, Facebook and Google to design and develop a mobile game aimed at speeding the search for new cancer drugs. The project, led by the charity Cancer Research UK, should mean that anyone... Black Holes In Galaxies Rotate Fast, Study Finds
By: AP, Uploaded: 28th February 2013
LOS ANGELES – There’s a new spin on supermassive black holes: They’re incredibly fast, astronomers say. It’s long been suspected that gigantic black holes lurking in the heart of galaxies rotate faster and grow larger as they feast on gas, dust, stars and matter. But there hasn’t been a reliable measurement of the spin rate... ‘Earth-like planets may be in our own backyard’
By: AP, Uploaded: 7th February 2013
Earth-like worlds may be closer and more plentiful than anyone imagined. Astronomers reported Wednesday that the nearest Earth-like planet may be just 13 light-years away — or some 77 trillion miles. That planet hasn’t been found yet, but should be there based on the team’s study of red dwarf stars. Galactically speaking, that’s right next... England’s King Richard III found after 500 years
By: Fawad Khan, Uploaded: 4th February 2013
LEICESTER, England: A skeleton with a cleaved skull and a curved spine entombed under a car park is that of Richard III, scientific tests confirmed, solving a 500-year-old mystery about the final resting place of the last English king to die in battle. Richard, depicted by William Shakespeare as a monstrous tyrant who murdered two... New species of flying frog discovered in Vietnam
By: Agha Majid, Uploaded: 15th January 2013
SYDNEY, Jan 15, 2013 – An Australian researcher who discovered a new species of flying frog near Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam and named it after her mother said Tuesday it was a rare find so close to such a big city. Helen’s Flying Frog was first discovered by Jodi Rowley, an amphibian expert from... 
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