Wednesday, 25 Nov 2009
MIT tries to solve history’s ‘largest mass poisoning’
Researchers in MIT’s Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering believe they have pinpointed a pathway by which arsenic may be contaminating the drinking water in Bangladesh, a phenomenon that has puzzled scientists, world health agencies and the Bangladeshi government for nearly 30 years..
Date: 25 Nov 2009 , Author: / Category: Environment, Water / Views: 5756/Rating:NAN
Tuesday, 24 Nov 2009
A Dark Planet of 1.5 Billion People
Think before when switching on the TV all the night while you are having a tight sleep. Think before when switching on you geyser all the day, when it heats and cool in cycles... Think before wasting electricity - as a UN report says that more than one quarter of the 6 billion world's population have no access to electricity.
Date: 24 Nov 2009 , Author: / Category: Environment / Views: 3013/Rating:5 / Comments:
Large Hadron Collider is Up and Working
On 23rd November, the LHC circulated two beams simultaneously for the first time, allowing the operators to test the synchronization of the beams and giving the experiments their first chance to look for proton-proton collisions. With just one bunch of particles circulating in each direction, the beams can be made to cross in up to two places in the ring...
Date: 24 Nov 2009 , Author: / Category: Science and Technology / Views: 1146/Rating:NAN
Sunday, 22 Nov 2009
India’s all-female UN police unit serves as inspiration for Liberian women
Liberian girls and women should draw inspiration from the all-female Indian police unit serving with the United Nations Mission in Liberia (UNMIL) to join law enforcement agencies in the service of their own nation, the top UN official in the West African country said today.
Date: 22 Nov 2009 , Author: / Category: India Defence / Views: 6668/Rating:3.7 / Comments:
Saturday, 21 Nov 2009
100 twitter users/tweeps got a unique look inside NASA's space program
NASA launched a social media experience at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida that quickly turned into an unprecedented world-wide event as more than 100 Twitter users got a unique look inside America's space program and front row seats to the Nov. 16 liftoff of the space shuttle Atlantis..
Date: 21 Nov 2009 , Author: / Category: Computers and Web / Views: 1625/Rating:NAN
Friday, 20 Nov 2009
Google Chromium OS Open Sourced
For microsoft, Apple and others OS may stand for "Operating System" but google makes it's OS - read as "Open Source". So going by the online buzz last week, Google finally releases the Chromium OS, not complete OS but as expected it outsourced it's code for online developers - Read the Google Blog Post here .
Date: 20 Nov 2009 , Author: / Category: Computers and Web, / Views: 4136/Rating:NAN / Comments:
Thursday, 19 Nov 2009
Be a Martian - courtesy: NASA & Microsoft
NASA and Microsoft Corp. of Redmond, Wash., have collaborated to create a Web site where Internet users can have fun while advancing their knowledge of Mars...
Date: 19 Nov 2009 , Author: / Category: Science and Technology / Views: 1978/Rating:5