London, March 7 (IANS) Safe money withdrawal from Automated Teller Machines (ATM) is possible via Google Glass – a wearable computer device, according to an IT expert. Dominique Schroder, assistant professor of cryptographic algorithms at the Saarland University in Germany, now proposes to combine Google Glass with cryptographic methods and techniques from automated image analysis to […]
New York, March 7 (IANS) In a never-seen-before incident in the asteroid belt, NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has recorded break-up of an asteroid into as many as 10 smaller pieces. “This is a rock, and seeing it fall apart before our eyes is pretty amazing,” said David Jewitt of the University of California at Los Angeles. […]
Washington, March 7 (IANS) The NASA scientists have discovered how dense particles near earth can send a plume up through space to help protect against incoming solar particles during certain space weather events. In certain circumstances, a pool of dense particles normally circling earth, deep inside the magnetosphere, can extend a long arm out to meet […]
Toronto, March 7 (IANS) Do you purchase energy drinks for growing children as these claim to increase alertness, improve mood and enhance mental and physical energy? Think again. A new report finds that consumption of energy drinks among teenagers may be linked with poor mental health and substance abuse. The paper also found that high-school students […]
Washington, March 7 (IANS) Astronomers said Thursday they have witnessed for the first time the break-up of an asteroid, disintegrating into as many as 10 smaller pieces at a “leisurely” speed. The crumbling asteroid, designated P/2013 R3, was first noticed as an unusual, fuzzy-looking object by ground-based telescopes in Arizona September 15, 2013, the researchers […]
Washington, March 5 (IANS) A single injection of an experimental drug may someday protect people from infection with the AIDS virus for up to three months, a US study said Tuesday. The study, published in the US journal Science, showed that the drug called GSK 744LA can protect macaque monkeys from repeated intrarectal infections with the […]
Washington, March 4 (IANS) Researchers have discovered a potentially clean and inexpensive way to convert carbon dioxide to methanol, a key ingredient to produce plastics, adhesives and solvents – and a promising fuel for transportation. Scientists from the Stanford University, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Technical University of Denmark combined theory and experimentation to identify a […]
Tokyo, March 3 (IANS) An earthquake measuring 6.7 on the Richter scale jolted a part of Japan Sunday evening, the US Geological Survey said. No tsunami, however, was predicted. The temblor struck 110km NNW of Nago, a city located in the northern part of Okinawa Island, at 8.11 GMT Sunday, Xinhua reported. The quake’s epicentre, having […]
India and Russia are close to resolving their differences over the nuclear liability law that has held up agreement on construction of units 3 and 4 of the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project (KNPP), Rosatom, the plant’s Russian bulder, said Friday. “Russia and India are nearing resolution of disagreements on the issue of application of the […]
The Indian space agency will take its first step towards a manned space mission by testing its third generation Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV) and also the crew module this year, said a top official. K. Radhakrishnan, chairman, Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), said end of May or beginning of June would see the experimental flight […]