RT: World Health Organization (WHO) officials are on alert after two confirmed cases and one suspected case of a new virus from the same family as SARS appeared in Saudi Arabia last week. Doctors are watching for any sign the disease may spread. The cases involve a coronavirus (named for […]
Source: Time Magazine The key to cloning a woolly mammoth may be locked into the Siberian permafrost. At least, that’s what scientists in the blustery Russian tundra are hoping. An […]
Source: IDB The Islamic Development Bank (IDB) announces the eleventh edition of its Prizes for Science and Technology (1434H-2013G). The IDB established the Prizes in 1422H (2001G) to acknowledge […]
Source: The daily Star Bangladesh has been ranked 55th in the web index prepared by world-wide-web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee that measures the web’s political, social and economic impact on people and nations of 61 countries. Bangladesh’s position in the bottom-ten of the index released on September 5 indicates that […]
Source: Business Standard Scientists across South Asia today decided to work closely in research initiatives and advise decision makers in offering solutions to problems ranging from healthcare to energy security. The Science Academies of South Asia, at their first-ever summit meeting here, also decided to create a network and meet […]
At the age of 12, Alex Foyt is already a veteran of creating online games, boasting 98 titles in six years, including a survival challenge that involves dodging carrots and chickens falling from the sky. The secret to Foyt’s game-making prowess: He learned coding with a programming language called Lua, […]
Source:Ahlul Bayt News Agency Head of the Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Institute Mohammad-Hossein Majlesara says Iran’s presidency of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) would provide the members with an opportunity to make progress in the field of NANO sciences. Head of the Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Institute Mohammad-Hossein Majlesara says Iran’s presidency of […]
Source: Economic Times SRIHARIKOTA: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Sunday congratulated scientists and engineers of Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) for the successful launch of an Indian rocket carrying two foreign satellites that became its 100th space mission. “I’m delighted to witness the launch of PSLV-C21 carrying two foreign satellites. On […]
Source: USGS.GOV Seems like everyday, there is another earthquake. Here is a map of all tracked events. Earthquakes – 7732 in last 30 days M Location Click event below for details Time UTC Lat Lon D km 1.4 10km ESE of Cloverdale, California 2012-09-07 11:57:16 38.772°N 122.900°W 5.9 1.7 58km […]
Source: Zeenews Washington: A new solar technology developed by researchers at RTI International could make solar energy more affordable, and thus speed-up its market adoption. The RTI solar cells are formed from solutions of semiconductor particles, known as colloidal quantum dots, and can have a power conversion efficiency that is […]
RT: Chinese researchers have unveiled a system that allows users to control drones with their thoughts. The technology was designed to help handicapped people, but could have ample applications in other fields as well. A video posted to YouTube by researchers at Zhejiang University shows how the system, called Flybuddy2, works. […]
RT: NASA’s Kepler space laboratory has discovered a pair of planets orbiting a pair of suns. The first-ever find could revolutionize knowledge of how planets are formed, and even identify alien worlds where life may flourish. The Kepler-47 star system, about 5,000 light years away from Earth, has a bright […]
Source: Fast Company To Ruslan Enikeev, the Internet is “nature, sky, space, science, and fractals”–an image he shares on his website, The Internet Map, which uses an association algorithm and a Google Maps front end to show 350,000 sites as their own universe. “For other people data and math is […]
RT: India has moved to block journalists’ Twitter accounts and websites, threatening to shut down Twitter entirely if it does not block those inciting violence. The warning comes amid an outbreak of ethnic clashes in the north of the country. The government demanded that Twitter block 28 web pages with […]
Source: NY Times. Older men are more likely than young ones to father a child who develops autism or schizophrenia, because of random mutations that become more numerous with advancing paternal age, scientists reported on Wednesday, in the first study to quantify the effect as it builds each year. The […]
RT: A team of Australian physicists have come up with their own theory on the universe’s creation. Challenging the “Big Bang” model, they now say it was a “Big Chill” – somewhat similar to water first freezing into ice and then cracking upon cooling. Researchers from the University of Melbourne […]
Imogen Mathers 17 August 2012 | EN Science and new technologies underpin many humanitarian products SunFire Solutions Aid innovators are calling for more interaction with research and development communities, ahead of World Humanitarian Day, reports Imogen Mathers. [LONDON] In the aftermath of the devastating bomb attack on the UN’s Baghdad […]
RT: The US Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that Americans have no reasonable expectation of privacy when carrying cell phones, allowing police to track GPS signals without a warrant or probable cause. The decision came the court ruled in United States v. Skinner that the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) abided by the […]
Source: Dailymail One of the occasional complaints around solar panels is that they are ‘an eyesore’. Well this may be about to change, after researchers developed a new transparent solar cell which means windows in homes and other buildings can have the ability to generate electricity while still allowing people […]