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Terror attack on power grids can CRIPPLE the system

The National Academy of Sciences, in a recent report, has warned that terrorists can cause black outs in large parts of the United States by attacking the power grid. The report adds that......

Serge Haroche, David J Wineland win Nobel Physics Prize

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for 2012 toSerge Haroche, College de France and Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris, France, and David J Wineland, National......

Gen next come to the fore in America

Anamika Veeramani, 14, an eighth grader from Incarnate Word Academy in Parma Heights, Ohio won the National Spelling Bee. Shantanu S Srivatsa, 13, an eighth grader at Cheney Middle School, West......

The unbeatable force, in both war and peace

The National Defence Academy is currently celebrating its diamond jubilee. M P Anil Kumar, a former fighter pilot, graduated from the NDA in 1983. In this elegant tribute, he salutes the Academy......

Dr K R Sreenivasan elected to US science academy

Dr Katepalli R Sreenivasan, director of the International Centre for Theoretical Physics in Trieste, Italy, where he holds the Abdus Salam Honorary Professorship, has been elected a member of the......

Academies stand by their findings on GM crops

The controversy over Bt brinjal refuses to die down with the country's six science academies today standing by their findings on 'limited release' of the GM crop despite Environment Minister Jairam......

Top scientists to review UN's climate panel

The United Nations has launched an independent review of the functioning of its top climate change body IPCC, which has come under much criticism in the recent months for some errors in its......

China's 15-year plan for tech growth

China is refining a strategic blueprint for the booming nation's medium and long-term national, scientific and technological development over the next 15 years.The blueprint's draft work, which......

Engineered bacteria make fuel from sunlight

In a bid to find a substitute to fossil fuels as raw material for the chemical industry, scientists have engineered bacteria, which could help grow chemical precursors for fuels and plastics."Most......

China protests US sanctions against its bank

China has strongly opposed tough American sanctions on a Chinese bank over its transactions with Iran, warning that the move could damage Sino-US ties. Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs demanded......

Why Bhanu Athaiya wants to return her Oscar

India's first Oscar winner, Bhanu Athaiya, who got the coveted award for costume design for the Richard Attenborough directed film Gandhi in 1983, wants to return the trophy to the American Academy......

Sreesanth's brother makes his film debut

It's usually cricket time in the Santhakumaran family with Sreesanth in a stellar role. But this time round, it's his brother Dipusanth who's grabbing eyeballs, with his debut movie Kana Kombathu......

What Salman, Mallika should do instead

If one stinks at fashion, the other talks too much. Get the drift? Despite their dream idol status, celebrities are anything but perfect. So here's some tongue-in-cheek free advice for......

Kim Kardashian's sexiest photoshoot

Get your low down on what's happening in the world of Hollywood, right here! Kim Kardashian posed in a leopard-print dress for a photoshoot that may be her raunchiest ever. In one of the photos,......

James Cameron's 'underwater' birthday!

Get your low down on what's happening in the world of Hollywood, right here! Academy-award-winning director James Cameron, famous for his blockbuster films like Avatar and Titanic on Monday......

'Selection process pretty good'

Brijesh Patel, chairman of India's cricket selectors,is alsoinvolvedwith the National Cricket Academy in Bangalore asdirector. It has been nine months since he took over the reins of the selection......

Toiling Tiger fails to shine at his favoured Firestone lair

Tiger Woods has reigned supreme at Firestone Country Club over the last decade although he found very little to savour at the venue as he struggled in the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational first round......

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Q. Stephen Hawking, one of the most brilliant theoretical physicists in modern world is the writer of which book? A) Beloved B) The Naked Ape C) A Brief History of Time
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Q. Identify the person Alvin E Roth
Sigma: A. C) A Brief History of TimeStephen Hawking is the former Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge and author of A Brief...... more

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Q. Who said "Only a moment to cut off that head and a hundred years may not give us another like it. "?He said it under what context ?
Santiranjan Pal: A. Alvin Roth is the George Gund Professor of Economics and Business Administration in the Department of Economics at Harvard University, and in the...... more

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Q. Why Bhanu Athaiya wants to return her Oscar
Afsa Kausar: A. Comment to Delambre on Lavoisier's execution, 8 May 1794. Quoted in D. McKie, Antoine Lavoisier: Scientist, Economist, When the French Revolution...... more

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Premature Birth Interrupts Vital Brain Development Processes in Infants

In infants, imaging technique shows that premature birth interrupts vital brain development processes, leading to reduced cognitive abilities.... ...

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Ministry of Culture Initiatives in North - East Region*

Backgrounder Backgrounder North East Zone Cultural Centre (NEZCC) €¢ The Loko Ranjan Utsav was organized in collaboration with Department of... ...

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New evidence supports theory of cosmic impact 12,800 years ago

Washington, May 22 (ANI): Emerging evidence continues to point to a major cosmic impact 12,800 years ago as the primary cause for the tragic loss... ...

http://www.newstrackindia.com/newsdetails/2013/05/22/47-New-evidence-supports-theory-of-cosmic-impact-12-800-years-ago.html

Vitamin C kills drug-resistant TB bacteria

Washington, May 22 (ANI): In a surprising discovery, researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have determined that... ...

http://www.newstrackindia.com/newsdetails/2013/05/22/32-Vitamin-C-kills-drug-resistant-TB-bacteria.html

PM to lay foundation for defence varsity this week

will lay the foundation stone for the country's first defence university in Binola village in Gurgaon on Thursday. The Indian National Defence... ...

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/gurgaon/PM-to-lay-foundation-for-defence-varsity-this-week/articleshow/20190423.cms

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