New spy entrant: A one-way sound machine is here

NEW YORK: What about a device that can help people hear someone talking but they themselves cannot be heard. Here comes one.A team of researchers at University of Texas (UT) has built the first-ever circulator for sound - a one-way road for sound.Called...

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Indian scientists help create market-oriented agriculture for eastern and southern Africa

HYDERABAD: A sustainable and market-oriented agriculture is the way forward in making smallholder farming in Eastern and Southern Africa more profitable and resilient, and in feeding the region's growing population using the limited resources available...

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Rough Mars terrain taking toll on Nasa rover Curiosity

WASHINGTON: All is not well with Nasa's Mars rover Curiosity. The wear and tear in its wheels owing to rough Martian landscape has been a cause of concern for mission managers.They are now seeking out a smoother path for the one-tonne robot to its ultimate...

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Nasa to launch robotic missions to make water on Moon and oxygen on Mars

WASHINGTON: Nasa is planning to launch robotic missions to make water on the Moon in 2018 and oxygen on Mars in 2020.The Moon mission will be the US space agency's first attempt to demonstrate in-situ resource utilisation (ISRU) beyond Earth.The purpose...

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New dinosaur fossil discovered in China

BEIJING: Scientists have discovered the fossil of a 60-feet long plant-eating dinosaur in China that lived about 100 million years ago.A team led by University of Pennsylvania paleontologists has characterised the new dinosaur based on fossil remains...

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Rs 225 crore brain research centre to come up in Bangalore

BANGALORE: A brain research centre at a cost of Rs 225 crore will come up here in a joint effort between Indian Institute of Science and a trust formed by Infosys executive vice-chairman Kris Gopalakrishnan and his wife.IISc, the country's premier university...

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Asthma risk to premature babies higher than previously thought: Study

NEW DELHI: Babies born early are more likely to develop childhood asthma than those born at full term, new research shows. A worldwide study of more than 1.5 million children found that the risk of developing asthma, or asthma-like symptoms, after a...

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Asthma risk in premature babies higher than previously thought: Study

NEW DELHI: Babies born early are more likely to develop childhood asthma than those born at full term, new research shows. A worldwide study of more than 1.5 million children found that the risk of developing asthma, or asthma-like symptoms, after a...

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Groundbreaking discovery could pave way for routine use of stem cells in medicine

Scientists have created embryonic-like stem cells by simply bathing ordinary skin or blood cells in a weak acid solution for half an hour in an astonishing breakthrough that could allow doctors in the future to repair diseased tissue with a patient's...

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Indian scientists turn plastic bags into car fuel

WASHINGTON: In a breakthrough, Indian researchers have developed an innovative method to re-use discarded plastic bags by transforming them into fuel to power car engines. Researchers developed a relatively low-temperature process to convert certain...

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The Black Death: Plague that killed millions can rise from the dead

Two of the most devastating outbreaks of plague in history, each of which killed more than half the population of Europe, were caused by different strains of the same infectious agent, a study has revealed.The Justinian Plague of the 6th Century AD,...

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Second supermoon of 2014 will be visible on Friday

NEW DELHI: The second of the five supermoons of 2014 would be visible on Friday, an organization working for popularizing astronomy said here Tuesday.Space Foundation said the first supermoon of 2014 appeared Jan 1 - making January the single calendar...

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How scorpion got its venom decoded

BEIJING: The lethal scorpion venom originated from a common protein used as part of the creature's immune system, scientists have found.Researchers led by Shunyi Zhu at the Chinese Academy of Sciences found that that a similar process may have involved...

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Eating disorders soar among teens and social media is to blame

The number of children and teenagers seeking help for an eating disorder has risen by 110 per cent in the past three years, according to figures given exclusively to The Independent on Sunday.ChildLine says it received more than 10,500 calls and online...

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Cern scientists create antihydrogen atoms

LONDON: Cern physicists have succeeded for the first time in producing a beam of antihydrogen atoms, an advance that brings scientists closer to solving the antimatter mystery.Physicists from Cern's Atomic Spectroscopy and Collisions Using Slow Antiprotons...

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Britain's TV channel to air 1st live show from space

LONDON: Britain's Channel 4 said it will air the first-ever live television show from space, tracking the International Space Station though a complete orbit around the Earth. "Live from Space" will be broadcast on National Geographic Channel in 170...

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Indian-origin researcher develops tiny windmills to charge cell phones

(An Indian origin researcher…) NEW DELHI: An Indian origin researcher Smitha Rao, working with her Taiwanese professor at the University of Arlington, Texas, may have found a solution to batteries dying out in cell phones. The duo has designed...

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Microparticles may reduce heart attack damage

(Microparticles — small…) CHICAGO: Microparticles — small vesicles circulating in the blood — if injected into the blood stream within 24 hours of the heart attack, may reduce the muscle damage to a great extent. After a heart attack, much of...

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Indian-origin researcher develops tiny windmills to charge cell phones

(An Indian origin researcher…) NEW DELHI: An Indian origin researcher Smitha Rao, working with her Taiwanese professor at the University of Arlington, Texas, may have found a solution to batteries dying out in cell phones. The duo has designed...

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Britain's TV channel to air 1st live show from space

LONDON: Britain's Channel 4 said it will air the first-ever live television show from space, tracking the International Space Station though a complete orbit around the Earth. "Live from Space" will be broadcast on National Geographic Channel in 170...

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Microparticles may reduce heart attack damage

(Microparticles — small…) CHICAGO: Microparticles — small vesicles circulating in the blood — if injected into the blood stream within 24 hours of the heart attack, may reduce the muscle damage to a great extent. After a heart attack, much of...

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Indian-origin researcher develops tiny windmills to charge cell phones

(An Indian origin researcher…) NEW DELHI: An Indian origin researcher Smitha Rao, working with her Taiwanese professor at the University of Arlington, Texas, may have found a solution to batteries dying out in cell phones. The duo has designed...

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Britain's TV channel to air 1st live show from space

LONDON: Britain's Channel 4 said it will air the first-ever live television show from space, tracking the International Space Station though a complete orbit around the Earth. "Live from Space" will be broadcast on National Geographic Channel in 170...

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Microparticles may reduce heart attack damage

(Microparticles — small…) CHICAGO: Microparticles — small vesicles circulating in the blood — if injected into the blood stream within 24 hours of the heart attack, may reduce the muscle damage to a great extent. After a heart attack, much of...

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Britain's TV channel to air 1st live show from space

LONDON: Britain's Channel 4 said it will air the first-ever live television show from space, tracking the International Space Station though a complete orbit around the Earth. "Live from Space" will be broadcast on National Geographic Channel in 170...

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Indian-origin researcher develops tiny windmills to charge cell phones

(An Indian origin researcher…) NEW DELHI: An Indian origin researcher Smitha Rao, working with her Taiwanese professor at the University of Arlington, Texas, may have found a solution to batteries dying out in cell phones. The duo has designed...

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Microparticles may reduce heart attack damage

(Microparticles — small…) CHICAGO: Microparticles — small vesicles circulating in the blood — if injected into the blood stream within 24 hours of the heart attack, may reduce the muscle damage to a great extent. After a heart attack, much of...

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Britain's TV channel to air 1st live show from space

LONDON: Britain's Channel 4 said it will air the first-ever live television show from space, tracking the International Space Station though a complete orbit around the Earth. "Live from Space" will be broadcast on National Geographic Channel in 170...

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Indian-origin researcher develops tiny windmills to charge cell phones

(An Indian origin researcher…) NEW DELHI: An Indian origin researcher Smitha Rao, working with her Taiwanese professor at the University of Arlington, Texas, may have found a solution to batteries dying out in cell phones. The duo has designed...

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Microparticles may reduce heart attack damage

CHICAGO: Microparticles — small vesicles circulating in the blood — if injected into the blood stream within 24 hours of the heart attack, may reduce the muscle damage to a great extent.After a heart attack, much of the damage to the heart muscle is...

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Britain's TV channel to air 1st live show from space

LONDON: Britain's Channel 4 said it will air the first-ever live television show from space, tracking the International Space Station though a complete orbit around the Earth. "Live from Space" will be broadcast on National Geographic Channel in 170...

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Chinese scholars announce breakthrough in HIV virus study

(Chinese researchers have…) BEIJING: Chinese researchers have claimed to have made a significant breakthrough in the study of HIV virus, offering hope of developing new medications to treat or even cure the disease. The researchers said they...

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Indian-origin researcher develops tiny windmills to charge cell phones

(An Indian origin researcher…) NEW DELHI: An Indian origin researcher Smitha Rao, working with her Taiwanese professor at the University of Arlington, Texas, may have found a solution to batteries dying out in cell phones. The duo has designed...

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Chinese scholars announce breakthrough in HIV virus study

(Chinese researchers have…) BEIJING: Chinese researchers have claimed to have made a significant breakthrough in the study of HIV virus, offering hope of developing new medications to treat or even cure the disease. The researchers said they...

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Britain's TV channel to air 1st live show from space

LONDON: Britain's Channel 4 said it will air the first-ever live television show from space, tracking the International Space Station though a complete orbit around the Earth. "Live from Space" will be broadcast on National Geographic Channel in 170...

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Indian-origin researcher develops tiny windmills to charge cell phones

(An Indian origin researcher…) NEW DELHI: An Indian origin researcher Smitha Rao, working with her Taiwanese professor at the University of Arlington, Texas, may have found a solution to batteries dying out in cell phones. The duo has designed...

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Britain's TV channel to air 1st live show from space

LONDON: Britain's Channel 4 said it will air the first-ever live television show from space, tracking the International Space Station though a complete orbit around the Earth."Live from Space" will be broadcast on National Geographic Channel in 170 other...

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Chinese scholars announce breakthrough in HIV virus study

BEIJING: Chinese researchers have claimed to have made a significant breakthrough in the study of HIV virus, offering hope of developing new medications to treat or even cure the disease.The researchers said they have made the breakthrough in the structural...

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Indian-origin researcher develops tiny windmills to charge cell phones

(An Indian origin researcher…) NEW DELHI: An Indian origin researcher Smitha Rao, working with her Taiwanese professor at the University of Arlington, Texas, may have found a solution to batteries dying out in cell phones. The duo has designed...

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Britain's TV channel to air 1st live show from space

LONDON: Britain's Channel 4 said it will air the first-ever live television show from space, tracking the International Space Station though a complete orbit around the Earth."Live from Space" will be broadcast on National Geographic Channel in 170 other...

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Chinese scholars announce breakthrough in HIV virus study

BEIJING: Chinese researchers have claimed to have made a significant breakthrough in the study of HIV virus, offering hope of developing new medications to treat or even cure the disease.The researchers said they have made the breakthrough in the structural...

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Indian-origin researcher develops tiny windmills to charge cell phones

NEW DELHI: An Indian origin researcher Smitha Rao, working with her Taiwanese professor at the University of Arlington, Texas, may have found a solution to batteries dying out in cell phones. The duo has designed a tiny windmill hundreds of which can...

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Chemical scientists resolve to vigorously research for anticancer drugs

MYSORE: "When cancer has remained a hard nut to crack and scientists have failed to provide succor to suffering people chemical biologists should strive hard to find drugs which can help people suffering from cancer to lead a normal life like those afflicted...

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New 'Hand of God' image captured by Nasa

A new image of the pulsar wind nebula known as the 'hand of God' has been captured by US space agency Nasa's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR).The photograph captured by the telescope shows the nebula 17,000 light-years away, which is powered...

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New 'hand of God' image captured by Nasa

A new image of the pulsar wind nebula known as the 'hand of God' has been captured by US space agency Nasa's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR).The photograph captured by the telescope shows the nebula 17,000 light-years away, which is powered...

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First-ever dino fossils unearthed in Saudi Arabia

LONDON: Dinosaur remains have been found in Saudi Arabia for the first time. The teeth of a theropod dinosaur and a sauropod vertebra have been unearthed in the Middle Eastern country. The teeth and bones are approximately 72 million years old.The newly-identified...

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Yawn leads to man’s lung collapse in China

BEIJING: A 26-year-old man in China suffered an unusual injury - he yawned so hard that his lung collapsed.Ou, from Wuhan in China's Hubei Province, likely ripped a hole in his lung when he stretched and yawned in the morning, doctors said.Ou felt a...

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Human ancestors in Africa survived on 'tiger-nuts'

NEW DELHI: Ancient human ancestors who lived in East Africa between 2.4 million-1.4 million years ago survived mainly on a diet of tiger nuts, an Oxford University study has found. Tiger nuts are not nuts but more like tiny potatoes, growing in the root...

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Nasa discovers new potentially hazardous asteroid

WASHINGTON: Nasa's latest sky-mapping spacecraft has discovered a new potentially hazardous asteroid, 43 million kilometres from Earth. It is the Near-Earth Object Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (NEOWISE)'s first such discovery since coming out...

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Hubble telescope finds a slew 10 billion years old galaxies

NEW DELHI: The smallest, faintest and most numerous galaxies ever seen in the remote universe have finally been captured by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. In its deepest ever probe using ultraviolet light these galaxies bubbling with star formation give...

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What is a polar vortex?

PARIS: The bitter chill gripping North America is a result of Arctic air that has spilled southwards, and global warming may be a cause, an expert has said.Arctic air is normally penned in at the roof of the world by a powerful circular wind called the...

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First Monday after New Year is the most miserable day

First there was bargainfriendly Black Friday, and now there's Blue Monday — the most miserable day of the year. According to researchers who have analysed more than 2 million tweets over the past three years, the first Monday back from work in the New...

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Hot, gassy Earth-like planet found circling red giant

NEW DELHI: A planet which has the same mass as Earth but is hotter and fluffier has been discovered orbiting a red giant star 200 light years away from Earth. An international team of astronomers found that although the planet weighs same as Earth, it...

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Isro completes second orbit raising manoeuvre of GSAT-14

BANGALORE: The second orbit raising operation of an advanced Indian communications satellite launched by a rocket using an indigenous powerful booster technology from the space port of Sriharikota was on Tuesday successfully completed by Isro scientists.The...

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Hindustan Aeronautics Limited contributes to GSLV mission

BANGALORE: Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) on Monday congratulated Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) for the successful launch of Geo-stationary Satellite Launch Vehicle, GSLV-D5 from Sriharikota on Sunday. "HAL's Aerospace Division contributed...

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Risk of supervolcano eruption big enough to wipe out civilization far greater than thought: Scientists

The eruption of a "supervolcano" hundreds of times more powerful than conventional volcanoes - with the potential to wipe out civilisation as we know it - is more likely than previously thought, a study has found.An analysis of the molten rock within...

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New device allows you to workout anywhere

WASHINGTON: A tiny new handheld device, which looks like a computer mouse, may allow you to work out from anywhere- a desk, plane seat or while watching TV.The device called the Tao, unveiled at the 2014 International CES trade show in Las Vegas, looks...

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Rare tree-hole breeding odonate found in Western Ghats

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: A rare odonate species, which is known to use tree holes as a larval habitat, has been found in the southern parts of Western Ghats, a biodiversity hotspot.Experts claim that it is for the first time that such an odonate variety has...

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Nasa to send another rover to Mars in 2020: Chief scientist

CHENNAI: After the success of Mars orbiter rover 'Curiosity', Nasa would send another rover to the red planet by 2020 to explore "biosignatures" on Mars, a top scientist of the American space agency said here on Sunday."Yes. By 2020, we will send another...

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GSLV-D5 marks India’s mastery over indigenous cryogenic technology

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Indian Space Research Organisation's (Isro's) successful launch of Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle, GSLV-D5, on Sunday at 4.18pm from Sriharikota marks a significant achievement of India's prowess over indigenous cryogenic...

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