by Andreas Keiser, swissinfo.ch Switzerland tops all major research and innovation rankings worldwide, largely thanks to generous funding and a clear separation between public and private research, as well as […]
Source: CNN Money/Fortune By Philip Elmer-DeWitt FORTUNE — Developers often complain about the hoops Apple (AAPL) makes them jump through to get their wares into the iOS App Store. But the company has its reasons — besides its 30% cut of the revenue — and one of them was illustrated […]
Source: Microsoft started October with a bang, unveiling Anders Hejlsberg’s newest creation: TypeScript, a superset of Javascript aimed at making the language’s big jobs easier. Key features of TypeScript include: module support class declarations static typing a Visual Studio 2012 plugin S. Somasegar, corporate vice president of Microsoft’s Developer Division, […]
Forget a diamond the size of the Ritz – astronomers have discovered a planet partly made out of diamond, and at an incredible 40 light years away from Earth, it is visible to the naked eye. While visually appealing, with no atmosphere and temperatures reaching 1,648 degrees Celsius it’s hardly […]
Source: R&D An exciting advance in solar cell technology developed at the University of Kansas (KU) has produced the world’s most efficient photovoltaic (PV) cells made from nanocarbons, materials that have the potential to dramatically drop the costs of PV technology in the future. “We actually broke the all-carbon PV […]
Source: The Local European aerospace giants EADS and BAE have less than a month from Thursday to clear big hurdles to a projected $45 billion merger and create a united […]
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: 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Source: NY Times. It is one of the more elusive commercial cyberespionage tools available. It is marketed as a way for governments to spy on criminals. And for over a year, virus hunters unsuccessfully tried to track it down. Now it is popping up across the globe, from Qatar to […]
RT: A new virus dubbed Gauss has attacked computers in the Middle East spying on financial transactions, emails and picking passwords to all kind of pages. The virus resembles Stuxnet and Flame malware which was used to target Iran, Kaspersky Lab says. Gauss has infected hundreds of personal computers across […]
Source: NY Times ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — In a nation thirsting for energy, he loomed like a messiah: a small-town engineer who claimed he could run a car on water. The assertion — based on the premise that he had discovered a way to easily split the oxygen and hydrogen atoms […]
Source IBNlive Meerwada: Life in the remote village of Meerwada used to grind to a standstill as darkness descended. Workers downed tools, kids strained to see their schoolbooks under the faint glow of aged kerosene lamps and adults struggled to carry out the most basic of household chores. The arrival […]