NASA’s space shuttle Discovery Mission Specialist Clayton Anderson poses for the media while enroute to Launch Complex 39A at the Kennedy Space Center, Florida on April 5, 2010. Discovery is scheduled for launch at 6:21 AM on a fourteen day mission to the International Space Station. sts-131-discovery-8545321 NASA’s... [Read More]

A terra cotta warrior and suite of armor is seen during a media preview for the exhibit “Terra Cotta Warriors: Guardians of China’s First Emperor” at the National Geographic in Washington on November 17, 2009. The exhibit, which opens November 19, features 15 terra cotta figures. terra-cotta-warriors-5752262 Terra... [Read More]

Royal Caribbean International’s newest cruise ship “Oasis of the Seas” glides into Port Everglades, Florida on November 13, 2009. “Oasis of the Seas” is currently the largest and most innovative vessel to serve the cruise and travel industry. At 1,187 feet, or nearly four... [Read More]

While the United States remains the world’s biggest arms supplier, India and China are the biggest importers of conventional weapons, the sales of which rose sharply by 22 per cent globally in 2005-2009, according to a leading Swedish peace research group said. New data released by the Stockholm... [Read More]

Clay pottery business gets a new lease of life  ...

Indians have played a significant role in building the Silicon Valley as the technology and innovation hub of the world, according to a 3,000-page report published by Bay Area Council Economic Institute. ‘Global Reach’, the report by R. Sean Randolph president and CEO, Bay Area Council Economic... [Read More]

One millionth of a millimetre or 10-9 m, is a nanometre, and study of matter at that level is nanotechnology. Initiated as an idea by Nobel Prize winning physicist, Richard Feynman in early 1950s, nanotechnology caught up as a separate discipline only during the early 90s. The nanotechnology initiative... [Read More]

Beware! Searching for Aishwarya Rai on your search engine can do your computer a lot of harm. The actress has been named India’s second most Dangerous Celebrity In Cyberspace by Internet researchers. The computer protection company McAfee compiled its second annual list by using a technology to... [Read More]

What is the purpose of that new page you’re adding to your site? Is it to rank highly for a keyword term? That’s half the battle won, of course After the visitor has arrived on your page, what do you want the visitor to do next? According to Seth Godin, you probably want a visitor to do... [Read More]

A new microblogging website, Yahoo Meme, similar in style and functionality to Twitter, was soft-launched in Portuguese in May. They have now launched a Spanish version. But what is unusual is that the word “meme” was first introduced by controversial British ethologist and evolutionary biologist... [Read More]

Twitter and Facebook, two of the Web’s hottest hangouts, suffered service problems on Thursday, raising speculation that they had come under a pre-planned coordinated attack by hackers. Facebook members saw delays logging in and posting to their online profiles. The social networking site is working... [Read More]

Gary McKinnon Gary McKinnon (born 10 February 1966) is a Scottish hacker facing extradition to the United States on charges of perpetrating what is claimed by one US prosecutor to be the “biggest military computer hack of all time.” Following legal hearings in the UK it was decided in July... [Read More]

Microsoft has sought to end a long-running dispute with antitrust regulators by offering to let users choose their own browser. The European Commission has so far slapped fines totalling €1.68 billion ($2.9 billion) on the US software giant for infringing EU antitrust rules. In its latest charge, the... [Read More]

chandrayaanThe survey spacecraft of India’s mission to the moon, Chandaryaan 1 has developed a navigational problem. Chandrayaan’s star sensor has failed, creating doubts on whether it will continue to work for the next two years. The spacecraft which entered the lunar orbit last November... [Read More]

Biggest Telescope Thousands of years ago, the original inhabitants of Spain’s Canary Islands are thought to have worshipped the Roque de los Muchachos mountain as having magical powers. On Friday, the mountain will officially become home to a telescope billed as the world’s biggest time machine. The... [Read More]

The moon will block the sun across a swathe of Russia, Mongolia and northwestern China just before sunset on August 1, launching a momentous month for China as it hosts the Olympic Games in Beijing. A total solar eclipse occurs when the moon moves between the sun and the earth, blocking out the sun from... [Read More]

A total solar eclipse began its flight on Wednesday across a narrow swathe of Asia, where hundreds of millions of people watched the skies darken despite thick summer clouds. The longest total solar eclipse of the 21st century was visible along a roughly 250 km-wide corridor, according to the US space... [Read More]

Having been a step behind in the race to pipe entertainment from the Internet to television screens, struggling video rental-chain Blockbuster Inc. is counting on a new partnership with Samsung Electronics America Inc. to regain ground on rival Netflix Inc. In an alliance announced Tuesday, Samsung’s... [Read More]

Cyber terrorism is the next big form of terrorism that India is likely to face, says the Intelligence Bureau. Already, the agency has issued numerous warnings on cyber attacks. The first signs of tech-savvy terrorists came to light during the serial blasts that rocked the country a year ago. The question,... [Read More]

A new technique for detecting signs of life on distant planets by analyzing reflected light could soon lead astronomers to extra-terrestrial life. According to a report in the Telegraph, when scientists tested the method on Earth, they found unmistakably strong signs of life in the form of chemical “fingerprints”. They... [Read More]

A team of astronomers has claimed to have seen hints of the first planet to be spotted outside the Milky Way galaxy, in the Andromeda galaxy. According to a report by BBC News, the team, which has made the finding, is made up of researchers from the National Institute of Nuclear Physics (INFN) in Italy... [Read More]

In a new research, scientists have discovered that cellulose, which is the underlying protein network that provides the scaffolding for plant cell-wall structure, is also the traffic cop for delivering the critical growth-promoting molecules where needed, an understanding that can lead to the design... [Read More]