What if the new airport at Multan was named Dr Abdus Salam Airport?
Source: The News International Op-Ed by Masood Hasan In a series of steps announced last night by the prime minister of Pakistan at a special session of the National Assembly […]
NYU Research Finds Top-Heavy Flying Objects Maintain Balance Best
Source: Red Orbit/NYU. Contrary to popular belief, it is actually easier for top-heavy structures to maintain their balance while hovering in midair than those with lower centers of gravity, claim scientists from New York University (NYU). According to UPI reports on Saturday, the findings counter commonly held theories that […]
Oceans could run out of oxygen
by Isobel Leybold-Johnson, swissinfo.ch Global warming could lead to more of the world’s oceans becoming “dead zones” – where a lack of oxygen leads to marine life dying out. This […]
Mars Orbiter discovers evidence of primordial ocean
Source: SpaceFlight Now The radar on Europe’s Mars Express orbiter detected sediments beneath the red planet’s surface strongly indicative of an ocean floor that formed billions of years ago, scientists announced this week. Artist’s concept of the Mars Express orbiter at Mars. The thin booms visible in this image […]
A Telescope as Sharp as Hubble — but on the Ground
Source: Time Most people think that the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) is the most powerful stargazing system in the world. It’s understandable, given the astounding images and spectacular science the […]
A New Question of Internet Freedom
Source: NY Times. PARIS — European activists who participated in American Internet protests last month learned that there was political power to be harnessed on the Web. Now they are putting that knowledge to use in an effort to defeat new global rules for intellectual property. In the U.S. […]
Facebook Is Using You
Courtesy: NY Times: LAST week, Facebook filed documents with the government that will allow it to sell shares of stock to the public. It is estimated to be worth at […]
Mega volcanoes may be predicted
Source: BBC The eruption of some of the largest volcanoes on the planet could be predicted several decades before the event, according to researchers. Analysis of rock crystals from the Greek island of Santorini suggests eruptions are preceded by a fast build-up of magma underground, which might be detected using […]
Rumor: NFC coming to iPhone5
Source: Webpro News. Ed McLaughlin, head of emerging payments at MasterCard, has given some weight to rumors that Apple’s next iPhone will finally include near field communication technology. In a recent interview with Fast Company, McLaughlin said that he expected the use of contactless payment systems like MasterCard’s PayPass – […]
Space Radiation Blamed for Phobos-Grunt Crash
Source: Rianovosti. The recent crash of Russia’s Mars probe was caused by a glitch in the onboard computer system under the impact of space radiation, Federal Space Agency head Vladimir Popovkin said on Tuesday. “Two components of the onboard computer system were spontaneously rebooted and it switched […]
When it Comes to Cloud Computing, It’s Deja Vu All Over Again
Source: Huffington Post. Lauren States Vice President, CTO Cloud Computing, IBM It seems like everywhere we look someone is talking or writing about “the cloud.” The recent Consumer Electronics Show featured everything from 3D televisions to cars connected to the cloud. For someone like me, this is great to […]
India reports first cases of ‘total drug-resistant tuberculosis’
Source: The Telegraph India has reported its first cases of “total drug-resistant tuberculosis,” a long-feared and virtually untreatable form the killer lung disease. Since 2003, highly resistant cases have been documented in Italy and Iran, mostly limited to impoverished areas and it has not spread widely. The airborne disease is […]
Megaupload User Data May Be Gone By Thursday, Feds Say
Source: Huffington Post. Federal prosecutors say data from users of Megaupload could be deleted as soon as Thursday. U.S. prosecutors blocked access to Megaupload and charged seven men, saying the site facilitated millions of illegal downloads of movies, music and other content. The company says its millions of users stored […]
Toronto teens send Lego man on a balloon odyssey 24 kilometres high
Source: The star.com. Neither Mathew Ho nor Asad Muhammad can vote, or buy beer. They haven’t been accepted to college yet, though that might change after this story. The 17-year-olds have already sent a (Lego) man into space. Two weeks ago, Ho and Muhammad launched a homemade balloon carrying a Legopassenger […]
Prof. Pervez Pervazi and Zakaria Virk presenting Dr. Abdus Salam
In his achievements, Dr. Salam saw a certain special Providence of God. Let me quote from the transcript of one of his interviews. The questi0ns asked by Lewis Wolpert or […]
Life Beyond Earth? Underwater Caves in Bahamas Could Give Clues
ScienceDaily (Jan. 26, 2012) — Discoveries made in some underwater caves by Texas &M University at Galveston researchers in the Bahamas could provide clues about how ocean life formed on Earth millions of years ago, and perhaps give hints of what types of marine life could be found on distant planets […]
Justices Say GPS Tracker Violated Privacy Rights
Source: NY Times. WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday ruled unanimously that the police violated the Constitution when they placed a Global Positioning System tracking device on a suspect’s car and monitored its movements for 28 days. Read more.
The Price of Your Soul: How the Brain Decides Whether to ‘Sell Out’
Source: Science Daily A neuro-imaging study shows that personal values that people refuse to disavow, even when offered cash to do so, are processed differently in the brain than those values that are willingly sold. “Our experiment found that the realm of the sacred — whether it’s a strong religious […]
Go With Your Gut — Intuition Is More Than Just A Hunch, Says New Research
ScienceDaily (Mar. 5, 2008) — Most of us experience ‘gut feelings’ we can’t explain, such as instantly loving – or hating – a new property when we’re househunting or the snap judgements we make on meeting new people. Now researchers at Leeds say these feelings – or intuitions – are real […]
When It Comes to Accepting Evolution, Gut Feelings Trump Facts
ScienceDaily (Jan. 19, 2012) — For students to accept the theory of evolution, an intuitive “gut feeling” may be just as important as understanding the facts, according to a new study. In an analysis of the beliefs of biology teachers, researchers found that a quick intuitive notion of how right an […]