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Exercise can make people smarter

A recent and rapidly growing movement in science is showing that exercise can make people smarter, Newsweek magazine reports in its upcoming issue.Last week, in a landmark paper, researchers......

SARS spread from animal to man

SARS was an animal disease that jumped the 'species barrier' to infect human beings, according to Science. The magazine described how the SARS virus evolved based on a study conducted by scientists......

TEXT: US President Obama's State of the Union address

United States President Barack Obama on Wednesday delivered his State of the Union address in which he spelt out the agenda for the second term of his Presidency.Here's the verbatim text of his......

Year-end 2012: The year that was for West Bengal

The love-hate relationship between Congress and Trinamool Congress finally ended with Mamata Banerjee walking out of the UPA and Congress pulling out its ministers from the West Bengal government......

Parliament: Is it even worse than it looks?

'India's parliamentary democracy is ridden with flaws,' argues Rajeev Srinivasan. 'Parliament has become a monarchy, with seats captured by a strongman, and then inherited by his wife or......

World's 10 biggest banks

If Americans ever allow banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation and then by deflation, the banks will deprive the people of all property until their children will wake up......

M S Swaminathan on the perils of Bt brinjal

The father of the Green Revolution explains how the genetically-modified version of brinjal may kill biodiversity.He introduced high-yielding wheat varieties in India to feed a country struggling......

Future laptops to benefit from new capacitor

Electric cars and laptops may soon benefit from a prototype capacitor that can store power as densely as a supercapacitor, and release it rapidly.The novel capacitor has been developed by a team of......

Now, dense barcodes to store video!

Scientists have developed what they claim are new barcodes big enough to hold images or video which can then be downloaded by camera phones.A team at Edith Cowan University is looking for a way out......

his univ targets the world's pressing problems

Consider this: An intensive 9-week, 10-day, or 3-day programme involving ten future-looking technologies and disciplines. If you are interested in the 10-week course, you need to be a super-smart......

Jeremy Renner: A star is 'bourne'?

Is it time to welcome a new action hero? With the solid opening of The Bourne Legacy, well known actor and two-time Oscar nominee Jeremy Renner (The Hurt Locker and The Town)has suddenly become a......

Freida Pinto scores blockbuster hit with Apes

In her first big budget film and fourth release Rise of the Planet of Apes, Mumbai-raised Freida Pinto has a second worldwide hit. While many critics used words such as 'comely' and 'beautiful'......

Bar Refaeli puts on a bikini in Mexico

Get your lowdown on what's happening in Hollywood, right here!Israeli model Bar Refaeli was spotted sporting a tiny bikini in Mexico. While New Yorkers brave several inches of snow, the Sports......

Sky Captain: Glossy, but not dramatic!

Among the many amazing technical achievements in Sky Captain And The World Of Tomorrow is the resurrection of Laurence Olivier who has been dead for 15 years. One admires the way his image has been......

'Motherhood is the best thing that happened to me'

Ayear ago, Gwyneth Paltrowhad a great career and an Oscar gleaming on her mantle. Marriage to Coldplay frontman Chris Martin and the birth of their daughter Apple this May prompted a new career:......

News media relations with Obama hit low ebb over golf weekend

Relations between the White House and the correspondents who cover it, always edgy and adversarial, have hit a low ebb in a dispute over whether the press should have access to the president during......

Soccer 'the most exciting sport'

It's official. Football has been the most exciting sport for the last 100 years, but baseball is catching up.A team of scientists from the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico studied a......

People speak for new scientist magazine

QNA

Q. Full form of PG
: A. PG Parental Guidance Suggested (MPAA rating) PG Pregnant PG Pacific Grove PG Paint Grade (building supplies) PG...... more

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Q. Is treating velocity of light as the ultimate constant correct? What are your views?
Sarbajit Paul: A. two German physicists now claim to have forced light to overcome its own speed limit using the strange phenomenon known as quantum tunnelling.The...... more

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Q. Why is India(ns) lagging behind Europe(ans) in almost all fields-technology,sports,civic sense....?
Naveen Srivastava: A. Ancient Indians were the inventors of most of what themodern technology boasts of as its...... more

http://qna.rediff.com/questions-and-answers/why-is-indians-lagging-behind-europeans-in-almost-all-fields/16284844/answers/3502375

Q. India is best in what areas, when compared to other countries?
Jinesh Jinesh: A. Among all countries in the world, India has inheritedthe largest number of ancient manuscripts from timeimmemorial. They were written on the widest...... more

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Q. Name one song which u think is all about you
Ranjith Ch: A. ek nahi hai nikita,bahut hain...jo zindagi ke alag alag pehlooan mein aakar dimag ko sukoon pahunchaate hain....but if i need to choose...... more

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