'Drying' DNA pool stalks Indian tigers

	'Drying' DNA pool stalks Indian tigers LONDON: A diminishing gene pool is posing a grave threat to Indian tigers. Scientists say the famed big cats of India are facing a serious threat of extinction owing to a 'collapse' in the variety of their mating partners. Welsh researchers say tigers were nearly ...
	Be ready for spectacle in sky AHMEDABAD: This week would be the time of sky gazing for astronomy lovers as three planets - Venus, Jupiter and Mercury - will come very close to each other in a planetary conjunction. While Jupiter and Venus are already seen in the sky, Mercury will join ...
	Indians take over London: Census shows they are largest foreign-born group in ... LONDON: Indians have become the largest foreign-born group in London. Nearly 9% of all foreign-born residents in London are now Indians. In sheer numbers, this means 2.63 lakh people born in India are now living in London. London had about 3 million ...
	Don't snatch! Disney Research builds robot that takes objects more naturally They may not make for the showiest videos, but some of the most interesting problems in robotics are to do with the subtleties of human interaction. Even something as apparently simple as receiving an object poses great difficulty, but it's a problem that will ...
	Non-wetting fabric drains sweat Waterproof fabrics that whisk away sweat could be the latest application of microfluidic technology developed by bioengineers at the University of California, Davis. The new fabric works like human skin, forming excess sweat into droplets that drain away by ...
	Python, more than 18 feet long, sets new record in Florida A record-setting Burmese python nearly 19 feet in length was captured and killed in a rural part of Miami-Dade County, officials announced this week. Measuring 18 feet 8 inches, it is the longest Burmese python that has ever been found in the area.
	Asteroid hitting earth! Asteroid QE2 to sail past Earth May 31 Thankfully this asteroid is not hitting earth. Asteroid QE2 is set to sail past Earth on May 31. Asteroid QE2 is huge by any yardstick. A massive asteroid will zip past the Earth on May 31. Called the asteroid 1998 QE2, the big space rock will be moving on a trail ...
	The mammoth's lament: Study shows how cosmic impact sparked devastating ... The University of Cincinnati's Ken Tankersley used excavations at Sheriden Cave in Wyandot, Ohio, in his research on the Younger Dryas. Credit: Provided by Ken Tankersley, University of Cincinnati. (Phys.org) —Herds of wooly mammoths once shook the ...
	Obama announces civilian honour to Sally Ride Washington, May 21 (PTI) US President Barack Obama has announced to award the nation's highest civilian honor posthumously to the first American female astronaut Dr Sally Ride for her contributions to the US space program and education system.