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Germany proposes to set up science and technology centre in India
India-Germany science and technology cooperation touched all time high with a visiting German delegation proposing to set up the German House of Science and Innovation in...


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Aquatic "dead zones" increasing global warming
In a new research, scientists have determined that the increased amount of nitrous oxide (N2O) produced in oxygen-deprived aquatic "dead zones" can elevate concentrations in the atmosphere, further exacerbating the impacts of global warming and contributing to ozone "holes" that cause an increase in our exposure to harmful UV...
Shocking recipe for making killer electrons revealed
ESA's (European Space Agency's) Cluster mission has revealed the shocking recipe for making killer electrons, by taking a bunch of fast-moving electrons, placing them in orbit and then hitting them with the shock waves from a solar...
MINI-ME to uncover secrets of outer layers of Earth's atmosphere
Reports indicate that and three scientific instruments will fly soon on the FASTSAT-HSV01 satellite to uncover the secrets in the outer layers of Earth's...
NASA proposes mission to snatch a piece from 'time capsule' asteroid
NASA has proposed a space mission that would return samples from asteroid 1999 RQ36, which is literally a 'time capsule' from before the birth of our solar system that could shed light on how life...
Lunar mirror mystery solved by scientists
Scientists have determined that the degradation of the performance of the Apollo reflector arrays on the Moon is because they are covered by lunar...
Treaty Panel Urged To Reject Ivory Sale By Tanzania, Zambia
Posted on: Friday, 12 March 2010, 07:59 CST An international convention will meet next week to decide whether to grant requests from Tanzania and Zambia to lower the protection status of their...
Second Only South Atlantic Tropical Storm: 90q, Moving Away From Brazil
Posted on: Thursday, 11 March 2010, 15:25 CST Tropical Storm 90Q is the second known tropical cyclone to form in the cooler South Atlantic Ocean, and two NASA satellites confirm it is now moving...
<b>science And Maths: </b>heed Parents Wishes
For Mathematics T, 99.6 per cent answered in English versus 98.2 per cent in 2008, and for Further Mathematics T, it was 100 per cent for both 2009 and 2008. In 2007, it was 91.2 per cent. This batch...
Space Florida Gets Launch Complex Rights
Cape Canaveral Air Force Station and will proceed with construction and refurbishment work at both locations for commercial use. Mark Bontrager, vice president of Space Florida’s spaceport...
Millionaire Shows Film Crew The Moon
SIR Richard Branson's backside will soon make its Australian television debut - after the Virgin tycoon was caught out mooning a film...
England Has Failed With Dangerous, Disturbed Offenders
Under the programme, some 450 men considered to have a "dangerous and severe" personality disorder, or DSPD, have received intensive cognitive-behavioural...
Opens This Weekend At The Denver Museum Of Nature & Science
The central and peripheral nervous system of a plastinated cadaver are part of the "Body Worlds and The Story of The Heart" exhibit. (Cyrus McCrimmon, The Denver Post ) For the squeamish or easily...
Canada Creates 21,000 Jobs In February
Do you think Canada is going to have a nice summer? Yes, we deserve it even if the winter was mild No, I think it's going to be terrible Don't...
Man Working On Home Computer Bit By Stray Snake
PETERBOROGH, Ont. - An Ontario man was treated in hospital and released after he was attacked by a three-foot California king snake while he was working at his computer just after midnight Thursday. ...
World Seed Vault Reaches Half-million Mark
Posted on: Friday, 12 March 2010, 06:52 CST The foundation that oversees the Svalbard Global Seed Vault said Thursday that the unique Arctic "doomsday" stockpile of all the world's crop...
Deforestation Conference Deemed A Success
Posted on: Friday, 12 March 2010, 06:35 CST Morale was high and more than $1 billion was raised to fight deforestation during a one-day climate change conference held in Paris on Thursday -- a...
Boston Scientific Announces Schedule For Acc 2010
Boston Scientific Corporation (NYSE: BSX) announced the schedule of the Company's major events and news announcements at the 59th Annual Scientific Session of the American College of Cardiology/i2...
Space Shuttle's Next To Last Mission Could Face Delay
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Science Center’s Wallace To Give Lecture At International Assembly
University of Texas Health Science Center at Tyler physician and researcher Dr. Richard Wallace has received the CHEST 2010 Murray Kornfeld Memorial Founders Lecture by the American College of Chest...
Gloomy Octopus Is 'moody' Octopus
Roger Hanlon , an octopus researcher at the Marine Resources Center, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, who was not involved in the study. "But this is the first time anyone has managed...
New Idea Makes Sa 'leader In Heart Medicine'
By Sipokazi Maposa Health Writer Work to address heart rhythm disturbances in cardiac patients has been revolutionised at a major Cape Town hospital thanks to cutting-edge technology which sees...
Sheikha Fatima Receives Sultan Bin Ali Al Owais Scientific And Cultural Achievement Award
Mar 12, 2010 - 03:56 - WAM Dubai, Mar 12th, 2010 (WAM) -- Sultan Bin Ali Al Owais Cultural Foundation has honoured Mother of emirates HH Sheikha Fatima Bint Mubarak with the Scientific and Cultural...
<strong>the Christian Science Monitor: </strong>alexander Hamilton
Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow is a real historical page turner. The portrayal of relationships between Hamilton, George Washington, and Thomas Jefferson is interesting and insights into our...
Sex Assaults Alleged During Surgery
Det. Const. Julie Stehlik announces sex assault charges against North York General Dr. George Doodnaught, pictured, Thursday at police headquarters. (Stan Behal, QMI Agency) TORONTO - Three women...
Pins Stuck Into Food Items Again
In the third known incident since this January, evidence of tampering was discovered in several foods at the Oakridge Co-op store on Thursday morning. (QMI Agency file photo) CALGARY - For the...
Mom Denies She Left Sick Girl To Die
CALGARY - Suspected baby killer Lisa Guerin denied Thursday she abandoned her poisoned daughter and left her to die. Guerin, testifying in her Calgary manslaughter trial, said she left her Southwood...
Families Coping With Speeding Crash Deaths
Hoping Machado will be jailed Friday instead of returning home with family and friends who often joined him in court, "is the only thing that will help give us some closure," she said. The memory of...
Looters Raid Family's Torched Home
Dean Haasbeek along with his wife Raina Graves and children (from left) Francis, Jude, Gertrude and Christina have been living in a friend's basement since their house burned last weekend. The family...
Hockey Dad Accused Of Bilking Pals
TORONTO - A hockey dad is accused of bilking friends out of hundreds of thousands of dollars through a bogus investment scheme. Peel Regional Police announced Thursday they had found 14 victims...
Accused's Kin Blame Disabled Canadian
Victim's mother offered free airfare WINNIPEG - The family of one of the teenage suspects in the severe beating of a disabled Manitoba man in Australia has blamed the victim for allegedly provoking...
Tax Collectors Get Severance Perk, Raise
TORONTO - Tax collectors raking in a hefty severance package without missing a day of work will also get a 3.4% salary increase as they move from collecting provincial sales tax to the new Harmonized...
Ten-year Project To Help Prevent Dementia Uses 1940s Study To Track Mental Development Over The Decades
But while Ian Deary's job is partly carried out with one foot in the past, his quadruple-screened computer in the corner shows just where his research is going – into the future. And he's hoping to...
Innovators Urged To Think Commercial
gh Science Triangle is to hold an event showing innovators how to reach their commercial potential.Innovation is of huge importance to Edinburgh, with science and technology employing around 65,000...
Fifty Years Of The 'light Fantastic:' Laser Advances Spark Scientific Progress
Fifty years after the first laser sparked a technological revolution, the "light fantastic" continues to impact people's daily lives - by playing DVDs, speeding Internet connections, and performing...
Obama To Meet With Top War, Science Advisers
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama has a busy day of meetings planned, but no public appearances are on the agenda. Friday morning, after his daily briefing, Obama meets with Secretary of...
International Space Station Partners Shine Light On Science Benefit
NASA budget-keepers focus on setting future priorities for the space agency, many in the world space community is trying to turn attention to the benefits a mostly complete International Space...
Electric Cars Jostle For Position On The Power Grid
concept car (pictured) was actually somewhat mundane: a wall plug. But over the next 12 months plugs will be increasingly appearing on production models from the world's biggest car makers. And as...
Lab Space Vacancy Is At 10.1%
VACANCY RATES The Cushman & Wakefield commercial real estate firm estimates the vacancy rate for laboratory space countywide at 10.1 percent, with 1.4 million square feet available, in the fourth...
Climate Change Makes Birds Shrink
Songbirds in the US are getting smaller, and climate change is suspected as the cause.A study of almost half a million birds, belonging to over 100 species, shows that many are gradually becoming...
Casinochoice Joins The Space Race
online casino InterCasino revealed its plan to put one lucky player into sub-orbital space. The InterCasino Space Race promotion was launched (literally) on March 1 and will give one player the...
Eritrea: Students Of Eritrean Institute Of Technology And College Of Arts And Science Express Readiness To Reinforce National Resolute Rebuff
Asmara — At a seminar conducted at the Eritrean Institute of Technology in Mai-Nefih yesterday, about 7-thousand students of the Eritrean Institute of Technology and the College of Arts and...
Activist Arrested Boarding Japan Whaling Ship
By Isabel Reynolds Japan's coastguard on Friday arrested an anti-whaling activist from New Zealand who boarded a whaling vessel in the Antarctic following clashes between hunters and...
Pm Ahead In Early Iraq Election Results
Counting and data input workers at the Independent High Electoral Commission (IHEC) in Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, March 11, 2010, as data is calculated before an election result can be declared. The...
American Arrested In Al-qaida Sweep
This 2002 photo provided by Roman Castro shows Sharif Mobley, 26, at a barbecue in Buena, N.J. The FBI confirmed Thursday, March 11, 2010 that the agency is looking into the case of 26-year-old son,...
$657m Settlement For 9/11 Illnesses
NEW YORK - After years of fighting in court, lawyers representing the city, construction companies and more than 10,000 ground zero rescue and recovery workers have agreed to a settlement that could...