GPRS deployed for Mahi’s rescue operation
June 22nd, 2012 - 10:16 pm ICT by IANS
Gurgaon, June 22 (IANS) Forty-four hours after four-year-old Mahi was trapped in a 70-feet deep borewell in Manesar town near here, modern technology was deployed Friday evening to locate her ... Read more...
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Here’s how 5,300-yr-old Otzi the Iceman looked
February 26th, 2011 - 1:09 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Feb 26 (ANI): Based on 20 years of research, this is how Otzi the Iceman might have looked: brown eyed, furrow faced bearded, and tired.Realized by two Dutch experts, Alfons and ... Read more...
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Flotilla of spacecraft to give accurate space weather forecasts
February 13th, 2011 - 1:56 pm ICT by ANI
London, Feb 13 (ANI): Space scientists from the UK may soon send a flotilla of spacecraft into orbit around the sun to provide an early warning system for the huge solar explosions ... Read more...
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Can help Kerala with satellite imagery: ISRO arm
January 17th, 2011 - 7:49 pm ICT by IANS
Thiruvananthapuram, Jan 17 (IANS) A state-run remote sensing agency has offered to provide Kerala with satellite images of the state's terrain to help prevent tragedies like the one that occurred near ... Read more...
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Tiny 3-D images shed light on origin of Earth’s core
December 17th, 2010 - 6:02 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Dec 17 (ANI): Stanford University and SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory scientists' new method of capturing detailed, three-dimensional images of minute samples of material under extreme pressures is shedding light on the ... Read more...
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Video-game technology may accelerate new drugs’ development
November 4th, 2010 - 2:49 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Nov 4 (ANI): A new technology used in video games may help in speeding the development of new products and potentially life-saving drugs.C&EN Associate Editor Lauren K. Wolf notes that consumer ... Read more...
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Smokers ‘more likely to be impulsive, indecisive’
October 29th, 2010 - 12:54 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Oct 29 (ANI): A new study has revealed that people who smoke are more likely to be impulsive and indecisive than those who have never smoked in their life.Researchers of the ... Read more...
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China launches online map service
October 22nd, 2010 - 7:10 pm ICT by IANS
Beijing, Oct 22 (IANS) China has launched an official online mapping service as internet giant Google is yet to apply for a licence to provide a similar service in the country.The State ... Read more...
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China launches own Google mapping service
October 22nd, 2010 - 4:56 pm ICT by ANI
Beijing, Oct 22 (ANI): It's official now. China has launched its online mapping service as Google Inc is yet to apply for a license to provide a similar service in the country.The ... Read more...
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Why our brains flip over optical illusions
September 4th, 2010 - 1:01 pm ICT by ANI
London, Sept 4 (ANI): Optical illusions,images that appear to be one picture for one moment, and then look something entirely different the next, have always fascinated us. But scientists, until now, had ... Read more...
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New York airports to install full-body scanners
August 7th, 2010 - 5:06 am ICT by IANS
New York, Aug 7 (DPA) New York region's three major airports will next month install full-body scanners, which critics said would violate constitutional rights of American people, news reports said Friday.
The Port ... Read more...
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Indian origin scientist develops new projection technology
July 7th, 2010 - 6:16 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, July 7 (ANI): AquaLux 3D, a new projection technology developed by an Indian origin scientist at Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute, can target light onto and between individual water droplets, enabling ... Read more...
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3-D, fly-through movies to explore Medieval Nottingham Caves
May 23rd, 2010 - 1:03 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, May 23 (ANI): Archaeologists have struck upon a brilliant technology to explore the unseen network of nearly 500 tunnels and caves, in a layer of rock called Sherwood Sandstone beneath the ... Read more...
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Shroud Of Turin Reveals Face Of Jesus Christ?
March 31st, 2010 - 8:48 pm ICT by GD
By Ranjan Bhaduri
Mar 31, (THAINDIAN NEWS) The mystery of the Shroud of Turin has finally been unveiled, at least. partially. The Shroud, which is believed to be the one which was used ... Read more...
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Now, school textbooks, e-module from Encyclopaedia Britannica
March 10th, 2010 - 11:05 am ICT by IANS
By Madhusree Chatterjee
New Delhi, March 10 (IANS) Encyclopaedia Britannica textbooks and an online study module will hit Indian schools from April 2010 in four subjects - computer science, mathematics, environmental studies and ... Read more...
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New device could be used for ultrafast high-capacity communications
March 2nd, 2010 - 1:52 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, March 2 (ANI): Engineers at University of California (UC) Davis have developed a new device that could make it much faster to convert pulses of light into electronic signals and back ... Read more...
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Eye disease imaging method used to spot forgeries in paintings
February 4th, 2010 - 2:48 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Feb 4 (ANI): Polish scientists have used optical coherence tomography (OCT), an imaging method for eye disease, to find hidden details in oil paintings.Piotr Targowski found that easel paintings prepared by ... Read more...
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New iPhone apps to study human body in 3-D
October 10th, 2009 - 1:09 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Oct 10 (ANI): Novel iPhone applications developed by University of Utah researchers could help students, doctors and patients study the human body, evaluate medical problems and analyse other three-dimensional images.The researchers ... Read more...
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Obese people ‘at greater Alzheimer’s risk’
August 26th, 2009 - 11:35 am ICT by ANI
Washington, Aug 26 (ANI): Here's some discouraging news for obese people: a new report has found that fat people are at greater risk for developing Alzheimer's.In the current online edition of the ... Read more...
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How to count sweets in a jar - from inside the jar
July 30th, 2009 - 12:49 pm ICT by ANI
London, July 30 (ANI): Guessing the number of sweets in a jar can be tricky, but now, scientists at New York University have determined how sweets pack from inside the jar, making ... Read more...
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High calcium level in arteries ’signals heart attack risk’
July 29th, 2009 - 11:58 am ICT by ANI
Washington, July 29 (ANI): High calcium level in arteries may signal serious risk of heart attack, according to a new study.The study, published in the online edition of Radiology, claims that scientists ... Read more...
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Breakthrough technique reveals genetic expression in fish by ‘listening to light’
July 1st, 2009 - 2:01 pm ICT by ANI
London, July 1 (ANI): A collaborative team of scientists from the Helmholtz Zentrum Munchen and the Technische Universitat Munchen are using a combination of light and ultrasound to visualize fluorescent proteins that ... Read more...
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New game offers almost real experience of Bull Run without life-risk
April 3rd, 2009 - 5:11 pm ICT by ANI
London, Apr 3 (ANI): Always dreamt of turning into a matador with those flashing red neckerchiefs, but too fearful of being followed by bulls running on the streets? Well, now a new ... Read more...
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Molecular imaging locates spread of cancer cells
January 3rd, 2009 - 10:53 am ICT by IANS
Washington, Jan 3 (IANS) A new technique will enable physicians to distinguish cancerous lymph nodes from healthy tissue in cancer patients.Researchers from the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany, used a hybrid single photon ... Read more...
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HiRISE camera captures high-resolution 3D images of Mars
December 9th, 2008 - 5:12 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Dec 9 (ANI): The High Resolution Science Imaging Experiment (HiRISE) team, based at the University of Arizona (UA) in the US, has captured 362 three-dimensional images of Mars taken by ... Read more...
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Soon, Star Wars-style video conferencing via new holograph technology
November 15th, 2008 - 5:43 pm ICT by ANI
London, Nov 15 (ANI): Remember how Darth Vader and Princess Leia exchanged messages via video conferencing in the Star Wars movies? Well, the day isnt far when you too will be ... Read more...
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Hitchcock used brain science to hook his viewers
June 7th, 2008 - 4:43 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, June 7 (ANI): Ever wondered why Alfred Hitchcocks suspense thrillers are so successful in keeping its viewers on the edge of their seats? Well, theyre good is one point for ... Read more...
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