Wednesday, 29 May 2013

Soyuz rendezvous with space station in record time

Soyuz rendezvous with space station in record time

Soyuz rendezvous with space station in record time

Computerworld - A NASA engineer was one of three astronauts who made a record-breaking journey to the International Space Station last night. The Soyuz TMA-09M spacecraft docked with the space station at 10:10 p.m. ET, successfully chasing down the ...
Narayansamy inaugurates INC

Narayansamy inaugurates INC

Bangalore, May 29 (IBNS): Minister of State in the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) V.Narayanasamy inaugurated the ISRO Navigation Centre (INC), established at Indian Deep Space Network (IDSN) complex at Byalalu, about 40 km from Bangalore, on Tuesday ...
The robot butler that can tend to your every need

The robot butler that can tend to your every need

A beer-pouring robot that can read your body movements and anticipate when you want another drink has been developed by American students. Researchers from Cornell University used Microsoft Kinect sensors and 3D cameras to help the robot analyse ...
Lethal gamma-ray burst could hit Earth

Lethal gamma-ray burst could hit Earth

Earth may be lying within the sights of a potentially lethal gamma-ray burst that can wipe out a quarter of our planet's protective atmospheric ozone, scientists claim. A Wolf-Rayet star called WR 104, some 8000 light years away is ripe to undergo a ...
Over fishing a threat

Over fishing a threat

Fisherfolk pour water onto the sea during Gangamma Jatara, at fishing harbor in Vizag on Tuesday. Visakhapatnam: A team of scientists from the Central Institute of Fisheries Technology (CIFT) conducted a study on new fishery resources in the Bay of Bengal ...
Indian adults unaffected by global warming

Indian adults unaffected by global warming

Over 40 per cent of adult Indians are unconcerned, indifferent or disengaged about global warming, posing a threat to policy implementation on this crucial subject, says a research report by the Yale University. According to the report, supported by Shakti ...
Study Explores How Declining Arctic Sea Influences Atmospheric Circualion

Study Explores How Declining Arctic Sea Influences Atmospheric Circualion

A new research states that reduction in Arctic sea ice levels will influence patterns of atmospheric circulation both within and beyond the Arctic. (Photo : U.S. Geological Survey/Flickr). A new research published in the International Journal of Climatology states ...
Your Smartphone, Made of Cement

Your Smartphone, Made of Cement

The process is sort of like this ... except done in a lab, with lasers. (DOE/Argonne National Laboratory). Straw into gold. Water into wine. Servant into princess. It's a longstanding obsession of human myth-making: turning one thing into another thing -- a lowly ...
Moon dust gathered by Neil Armstrong discovered in warehouse after 40 years

Moon dust gathered by Neil Armstrong discovered in warehouse after 40 years

While tidying up a storage space at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, an archivist makes a cosmic discovery. Edward Moyer. by Edward Moyer. May 25, 2013 3:08 PM PDT Follow @edatnews. Have you seen me? (Credit: Lawrence Berkeley ...