Daily Telegraph: CERN, the European Organisation for Nuclear Research, announced today that after extensive testing it was “looking more and more” like the particle which they discovered last year was the Higgs boson. Finding the Higgs plugs a gaping hole in the Standard Model of physics, the theory that describes […]
Northern Lights Source: BBC By Paul Rincon: Science editor, BBC News website Russian scientists have claimed the discovery of a new type of bacterial life in water from a buried […]
Source: Huff Post. If you’re reading this, you might not know that it’s the fourth annual National Day of Unplugging, a day when participants nationwide pledge to spend 24 hours completely tech-free. Impossible, you say? Difficult, maybe, for the most avid Instagrammers and Tweeters and texters among us. But even if […]
By Zubair Khan Photographie: Abdullah Adeel Land of pure, its leaders as well masses have shunned and vilified Dr. Salaam. Even Pakistan history has been mitigated to denounce this great man of the Pakistani soil. However still there are some loyal organisations, entities and sons of soil who feel their […]
Source: The Economist: WORRYING about the threats posed by space rocks has traditionally been the preserve of the paranoid. No one doubts that asteroids have hit Earth in the past, with nasty consequences, but because the chances of any such event happening in a given year are so low, most […]
Huffington Post UK | By Michael Rundle Physicists say they are closer than ever to understanding a vast mysterious ribbon of particles at the edge of the Solar System. Nasa’s […]
Source: Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Germany Year 2012 witnessed incredible discovery of Higgs Boson. To applause this historic milestone, the co founder of Higgs Theory, Professor Tom Kibble of Imperial College […]
Source: Science Daily Jan. 14, 2013 — U.S. Naval Research Laboratory scientists in the Electronics Technology and Science Division, in collaboration with the Imperial College London and MicroLink Devices, Inc., Niles, Ill., have proposed a novel triple-junction solar cell with the potential to break the 50 percent conversion efficiency barrier, […]
Source: The Hindu Convergence among multiple technological and scientific disciplines, coupled with making sustainable systems would define the “knowledge society” of the 21st century, the former President, A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, said here on Sunday. He was addressing students of the Indian Institute of Technology (Patna) during its first convocation programme. […]
by Taylor Luck, Jordan Times AMMAN — Jordan’s Egyptian gas supplies have returned to “normal levels”, according to energy officials, after nearly two years of reduced supply due to political […]
Source: CNN CNN iReporter Abe Blair, a professional photographer, http://www.blindmanphotos.com shot pictures of the Perseid meteor shower over Crater Lake, Oregon for six to seven hours in August 2012. (CNN)— Skywatchers will be setting their alarm clocks for the early morning hours Thursday when the annual Quadrantid meteor shower peaks.This […]
Source: http://www.ted.com http://embed.ted.com/talks/donald_sadoway_the_missing_link_to_renewable_energy.html What’s the key to using alternative energy, like solar and wind? Storage — so we can have power on tap even when the sun’s not out and the wind’s not blowing. In this accessible, inspiring talk, Donald Sadoway takes to the blackboard to show us the future […]
(MENAFN – Arab News) The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has announced an ambitious goal of reaching 41GW of solar power generation capacity by 2032 (25GW of concentrated solar power (CSP) and 16GW of Photovoltaic (PV). A 9GW wind energy capacity is also being envisaged. Building up energy generation capacity will […]
Source: Guardian 155MW plant being developed by a British company is expected to create hundreds of jobs, increase electricity capacity and cut emissions Blue Energy constructed a solar park near […]
Source: ZDnet Dropbox might have just scored a major win against Google — at least as far as personnel goes. The cloud storage provider just hired Guido Van Rossum, creator of the Python programming language. Dropbox confirmed the news in a blog post on Friday, as founder and CEO Drew […]
Source: DNA India A designer from France has created an ornate little mock bonsai tree that doubles up both as an ornament and a charger for everyday electrical devices — without the need for any delicate pruning. The Electree+ – created by Vivien Muller- has 27 miniature silicon solar panels […]
Source: Asia Times: By:Pushkar Indians are doing well in the knowledge economy. India is not. There is a misconception in some quarters that both are making rapid gains. The fact is that Indians based outside India continue to make impressive gains in the knowledge economy but India’s achievements remain quite […]
Huff Post: Paul Brandeis Raushenbush. Want to know something, anything? Want to find out what day Hanukkah starts? When Mussolini was born? How many eyes a common housefly has? Want to know if someone is gay? Why Sikhs wear turbans? Wondering if God exists? Ask the Internet. ……….As the Religion […]
RT: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has co-authored a book arguing that the world is at a pivotal decision: Whether the Internet will free us, or enslave us. Assange, famous for his ‘hacktivism,’ used a decidedly low-tech medium for his latest polemic. Titled ‘Cypherpunks: Freedom and the Future of the Internet,’ […]
dnaindia: ANI: The structure of the universe and the laws that govern its growth may be more similar than previously thought to the structure and growth of the human brain […]