A smart robot that can play rock-scissors-paper with you

	A smart robot that can play rock-scissors-paper with you LONDON: An Indian scientist has created the first-ever highly intelligent robots that will play rock-scissors-paper with humans in a series of sell-out shows at this year's Edinburgh International Science Festival. The scientist, Ram Ramamoorthy, who is from ...
	Hubble boffins: Incredibly old supernova could explain EVERYTHING NASA's Hubble telescope has spotted the most distant massive star explosion of its kind ever, one which could help boffins understand the very fabric of the universe. Hubble view of supernova SN Wilson. The telescope picked out Supernova UDS10Wil, also ...
	Volcanoes on Jupiter's moon found in the wrong place Volcanoes on Jupiter's moon found in the wrong place Washington: Concentrations of volcanic activity in Jupiter's moon Io are significantly displaced from where they are expected to be based on models that predict how the moon's interior is heated, ...
	Einstein's theory witnessed at play in far-flung star system Einstein`s theory witnessed at play in far-flung star system Washington: NASA's Kepler space telescope has witnessed the effects of a dead star bending the light of its companion star- a result of Einstein's general theory of relativity - in binary, or double, star ...
	Arctic could have ice-free summers by 2030, report says The Arctic will be ice-free in most late summers as soon as 2030 and that could have an effect on animal habitats and national security, according to a Congressional Research Service report. Record low extents of Arctic sea ice in 2012 focused scientific and ...
	Prof Ruchi Ram Sahni, the doyen of scientific tradition at Panjab University There is no better occasion for recalling the contribution of stalwarts of the Panjab University to the enrichment of scientific tradition in India than the 150th birth anniversary of Ruchi Ram Sahni (1863-1948) - a moderniser and a pioneer in the popularisation of ...
	New camera clicks 3D pics from a km away Researchers have developed a new laser powered camera system that creates high-resolution 3-D images of objects from up to a kilometre away. A standard camera takes flat, 2-D pictures. To get 3-D information, such as the distance to a far-away object, ...
	PIC AND PUB Curiosity rover's parachute photographed moving in Mars wind The pictures are a sequence of seven separate shots, taken by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE), between August 2012 and January 2013, showing changes in the shape of the parachute at least twice as the Orbiter passes overhead ...