Archive for the ‘Science’ Category
Monday, March 15th, 2010
London, Mar 15 (ANI): In a breakthrough discovery, researchers at the University of Calgary have found the unique genes that allow the opium poppy to make codeine and morphine.
The advance has opened doors to alternate methods of producing these effective painkillers either by manufacturing them in a lab or controlling ...
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Monday, March 15th, 2010
London, March 15 (ANI): Reports indicate that scientists have detected anti-matter particles, known as geo-neutrinos, emitted during nuclear reactions within the Earth’s crust for the first time.
According to a report in the Times, the measurements, by a detector buried more than one kilometre beneath the Italian town of l’Aquila ...
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Monday, March 15th, 2010
Washington, March 15 (ANI): Exploratory work in Mexico has revealed an archaeological site of Maya affiliation dedicated exclusively to manufacture weapons and tools.
San Claudio “was occupied from 200 BC to 900 AD by Maya workers at the service of other community of higher hierarchy”, archaeologist Jose Luis Romero Rivera, ...
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Monday, March 15th, 2010
New Delhi, Mar 15 (ANI): A Jaipur non-governmental organization (NGO) has decided to supply the famous ''Jaipur Foot'' to around ten thousand Iraqis, who have lost their legs in landmine blasts.
A person fitted with this limb can walk like a normal person without a stick or support, and even run, ...
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Monday, March 15th, 2010
London, March 15 (ANI): Biologists from the University of Columbia, Irvine have played a major role in sequencing Hydra genome – a research that found the freshwater polyp shares many genes with humans.
The study has appeared in the March 14 online version of Nature.
In the report UCI biologists ...
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Monday, March 15th, 2010
London, March 15 (ANI): People of a wealthy nation may be addressing more miseries amid fattening economy, say experts.
Curtis Eaton, University of Calgary, and Mukesh Eswaran, University of British Columbia, pointed out that while the rich with busting bank accounts may be able to afford the latest, the chunk ...
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Monday, March 15th, 2010
London, March 15 (ANI): Leonardo da Vinci predicted that the world would meet its end in a “universal flood”, beginning on March 21, 4006 and concluding on November 1 the same year, claims a Vatican researcher.
Sabrina Sforza Galitzia, who works in the Vatican archives, alleges the Italian genius hid ...
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Monday, March 15th, 2010
London15 (ANI): A senior Chinese translator has warned that common use of English words in everyday Chinese is ruining the language.
Huang Youyi, chairman of the International Federation of Translators, has criticized usage of words such as okay, bye-bye, nice, modern and guitar.
"If we do not pay attention and ...
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Monday, March 15th, 2010
New Delhi, Mar.15 (ANI): Disgraced Satyam founder B. Ramalinga Raju''s plea for bail in connection with a multi-crore fraud case has been denied by the Supreme Court.
"When serious crimes are committed, people are bound to be in jail," a bench headed by Chief ...
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Monday, March 15th, 2010
London, March 15 (ANI): A team of scientists has developed a way to control the direction of light on the nanoscale, by developing miniaturized television aerials made from gold nanorods, which can pave the way for quantum computing networks in the future.
At the moment, quantum physicists use cumbersome apparatus ...
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