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India is part of World’s largest optical telescope project

January 26, 2013

Indian scientists will render significant contribution in developing key components of the world’s largest optical telescope to be set up by a 5-nation consortium including India. The Thirty Metre Telescope (TMT), also known as the world’s most advanced ground-based observatory, ..

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Intel to make an interface to help Stephen Hawkins communicate faster

January 24, 2013

Intel , the world’s largest and most valued chip maker, has revealed that it is working on an interface that will boost the scientist’s speech to up to 10 words per minute. Currently, Hawkins rate of communication is 1 word ..

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Scientists discover Billion Year Old River on Mars

January 22, 2013

Scientists from the European Space agency have discovered a river like structure on Mars by analyzing the 3D images of the Mars Express stereo camera. As per them, the region Reull Vallis bears a river-like structure which is believed to ..

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Indian researcher to receive Alzheimer's drug discovery award

January 22, 2013

Mahaveer Golechha, a London-based Indian researcher will be honored with Alzheimer’s Drug Discovery Foundation’s ‘Young Investigator Scholarship Award’ at the 7th Annual Drug Discovery for Neurodegeneration Conference San Francisco. Why this award? The award is being given to him to ..

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ISRO to launch SARAL on February 14, GSLV in April

January 21, 2013

The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has planned to launch SARAL (Satellite with Argos and Altika) on February 14, 2013. The launch, which was planned for 12-12-12, was deferred due to some technical issues and to carry out additional to ..

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Black Holes are growing faster than previously believed

January 19, 2013

Scientists from Swinburne University have revealed that the growth of super massive black holes, which are present at the centers of galaxies, does not occurs in the same way as it was previously thought. Previous Thoughts and New Discovery:

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Facebook launches new “graph search” tool

January 19, 2013

Facebook has unveiled a new friends-based search tool “graph search” which will help its users search for people and places within the social network. The new tool which is available as a beta version will initially let users browse mainly ..

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Air India halts operations of all its Dreamliners

January 19, 2013

Air India has grounded its entire six Boeing 787 Dreamliners aircrafts. The move came following the decision of Europe, the U.S. and Japan to put Boeing 787 Dreamliners out of action. The aircraft will not be allowed to fly until ..

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Battery safety concerns ground Boeing 787 and the issue with using “Lithium-ion Batteries”

January 19, 2013

The US and Japan have grounded their Boeing 787 Dreamliner aircrafts due to concerns over it battery safety. Recently, a battery-fault warning on an All Nippon Airways Dreamliner in Japan forced an emergency landing. A battery overheated and started a ..

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India among major victims of ‘Red October’

January 18, 2013

What is RED OCTOBER ?  ‘Red October’ (or ‘Rocra’ for short) = A Cyber spying campaign (a cyber-espionage network) launched in 2007 by unidentified criminals that have been secretly stealing important data from many computer systems used by government agencies, ..

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