| Scientists say well thought strategy needed to catch up with China Top Indian scientists have stressed on the urgent need to design a well-thought-out strategy to develop science and make it economically competitive to catch up with the fast surging China.
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| Massaging promotes pain relief, muscle recovery Most athletes would swear by the pain-relieving, muscle recovery-promoting benefits of massaging, which has now been validated by scientific evidence.
On the cellular level, massage reduces... |
| No vendetta against Nair, says ISRO chief Radhakrishnan Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) chief K Radhakrishnan on Monday said that there has been no vendetta behind blacklisting his predecessor G Madhavan Nair and three other scientists in... |
| ISRO Chief Radhakrishnan says 'nothing personal' against predecessor Nair Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) Chief K Radhakrishnan on Monday said that he had nothing personal against his predecessor, G Madhavan Nair, who has been indicted along with three other... |
| Ultimate parachute jump: Diver to break sound barrier An Austrian skydiver will try to break the sound barrier during a free fall from a balloon on the edge of space later this year, The Telegraph reported Sunday.
Felix Baumgartner will be the first... |
| Over 6,000 apply for NASA Astronaut Corps Over 6,000 individuals have applied for joining NASA's Astronaut Corps, twice as many as the US space agency usually receives, NASA said Sunday.
Late last year, NASA announced a selection procedure... |
| The universe withholds the mystery of magnetism Why is the universe magnetized? It's a question scientists have been asking for decades. Now, an international team of researchers including a University of Michigan professor have demonstrated... |
| Science Minded: Marine biologist gives inside look at life, job Aaron Hartmann, a Ph.D. student at UCSD's Scripps Institution of Oceanography, is beginning a weekly blog called "Science Minded" for U-T San Diego. He'll introduce students and... |
| Tree Rings May Underestimate Climate Response To Volcanic Eruptions Some climate cooling caused by past volcanic eruptions may not be evident in tree-ring reconstructions of temperature change because large enough temperature drops lead to greatly shortened or even... |
| Science Weekly podcast: Transplants and the future of intensive care This week, we're focusing on some pivotal stories from the history of science and medicine. First up are human-to-human transplants and intensive care medicine. These are among the greatest... |
| API: Three Letters That Change Life, the Universe and Even Detroit Apigee , a company that builds and operates APIs. That’s tech-world speak for the software that lets things like Facebook, Google and Twitter talk to all those applications on your iPhone. ... |
| Russia's Space Woes Stress NASA's Need for Private Spaceships The recent delay of the next manned launch to the International Space Station due to a damaged Russian space capsule highlights NASA's critical need for commercially built vehicles, space policy... |
| Race to drill into Antarctic lake Russian scientists are attempting to beat US and UK rivals to be first to drill an Antarctic sub-glacial lake. The team has been drilling down to Lake Vostok, the largest of more than 100 bodies of... |
| Russian Scientists Drill to Sub-Glacial Antarctic Lake After decades of drilling , Russian scientists have finally managed to pierce through Antarctica’s ice sheet to reveal the secrets of a unique sub-glacial lake, Vostok, that has been sealed... |
| Doomsday flu decision time: The story so far highly dangerous flu called H5N1 evolved on chicken farms in China in the mid-1990s. By 2006 it had spread across Eurasia and as far as the UK and Nigeria. It is endemic and evolving in poultry in... |
| Zap your brain into the zone: Fast track to pure focus I'm close to tears behind my thin cover of sandbags as 20 screaming, masked men run towards me at full speed, strapped into suicide bomb vests and clutching rifles. For every one I manage to... |
| Mysterious radio waves emitted from nearby galaxy There is something strange in the cosmic neighbourhood. An unknown object in the nearby galaxy M82 has started sending out radio waves, and the emission does not look like anything seen anywhere in... |
| Union of Concerned Scientists : Northwest Airlines Asks Clear Channel to Pull Science Group's Anti-Nuclear-Weapons Ad in Minneapolis Airport Billboard Calls for Sen. McCain to 'Get Serious' About Reducing the Threat of Nuclear Weapons WASHINGTON - August 19 - Northwest, the official airline of the Republican National... |
| Center for Science in the Public Interest : Obesity on the Kids' Menus at Top Chains CSPI Investigation Reveals Kids' Meals at Restaurants Usually Too High in Calories, and Good Options Hard to Find WASHINGTON - August 4 - Nearly every single possible combination of the... |
| Lockheed signs scientific partnership with Saudi research institute Saudi Arabia's King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST) has signed a scientific partnership agreement with US giant Lockheed Martin, Arab News has reported. The agreement will help... |
| Pan-African parliamentary science forum launched An Africa-wide forum for parliamentarians which aims to give science, technology and innovation a more central role in the policy-making process was launched this... |
| Powerful Sun storms may sweep away space junk Violent sun storms that shoot bursts of energy in Earth's direction have the potential to damage satellites and power infrastructures, but they can also clear the skies of dangerous space... |
| Scientific teaching method promotes deeper questions, answers Raleigh, N.C. - There's a national push to help students focus on science, technology, engineering and math. Schools with that emphasis, called STEM schools, have special technology... |
| Miss. science standards get C An educational research institute gives Mississippi a grade of C for what it describes as mediocre standards for teaching science in public schools. But state associate superintendent Trecina Green... |
| Russia Tests HIV Vaccine The State Research Center for Virology and Biotechnology, Vektor, has successfully completed the first stage of clinical trials of an HIV vaccine, Vektor director Alexander Sergeyev said on Monday. ... |
| NASA says Russian space woes no worry Science News: WASHINGTON, NASA says it still has confidence in the quality of Russia's manned rockets, despite an embarrassing series of glitches and failures in the Russian space... |
| 17 and sudoku clues [video] | @GrrlScientist For those who aren't familiar with it, sudoku is a popular logic-based puzzle where numbers are placed into a 99 grid so that each column, each row, and each of the nine 33 sub-grids contain... |
| The Strange Science of Summer on the Oregon Coast (Oregon Coast) - It verges on the paranormal. It’s a truth that’s a bit out there. And it's a stranger side of Oregon tourism than most have... |
| Some Churches Hope Albany Will Act to Allow Renting School Space to Pray In a wide second-floor room at John Jay High School in Brooklyn, images of a cross, broken bread and a chalice overflowing with red wine decorated a large banner hanging between two columns. In front... |
| Lunar Liquid: More Water than Ever Found on the Surface of the Moon These images produced by the Lyman Alpha Mapping Project (LAMP) aboard NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter reveal features at the Moon's northern and southern poles in the regions that lie... |
| Early Study Suggests Nanodiamonds Safe for Implants -; Nanodiamonds designed to toughen artificial joints also might prevent the inflammation caused when hardworking metal joints shed debris into the body, according to an early study published this... |
| Hearing Metaphors Activates Brain Regions Involved in Sensory Experience -; When a friend tells you she had a rough day, do you feel sandpaper under your fingers? The brain may be replaying sensory experiences to help understand common metaphors, new research... |
| Today's Article on Christian Science Mary Baker Eddy , the founder of Christian Science, has been helpful to me when needing employment and figuring out the direction of my life. Referring to a statement in Jesus' Sermon on the... |
| Momentive Features New Iron Hydrosilylation Technology in Science Magazine Scientists from Princeton and Cornell Universities and researchers from Momentive Performance Materials have been jointly featured in an article, which is about new iron hydrosilylation technology in... |
| Russian communications satellite crash caused by engine failure: space agency MOSCOW, Jan. 31 (Xinhua) -- The crash of Russia's communications satellite "Meridian" was caused by the malfunction of one of the satellite carrier rocket's engines, Russia's... |
| Alex Ross: ISSUE Project Room’s permanent space. buy online access to a single issue . Individual back issues are available for sale through our customer-service department, at... |
| Man, 51, photographed teen, fathered her child BRANTFORD, ONT. - A 51-year-old Brantford man -- who had sex with a teenager, took pornographic photos of her and fathered her child -- will be sentenced next month. The man, whose name is under a... |
| Genetic Variant Increases Risk of Common Type Stroke -; A genetic variant that increases the risk of a common type of stroke has been identified by scientists in a study funded by the Wellcome Trust and published online... |
| House explosion kills husband, two sons of missing woman A house explosion on Sunday killed the father and two boys involved a bitter custody dispute near Tacoma, Washington, authorities said, two years after the... |
| Boeing sees big future in space The Boeing Co., long noted as a producer of strategic weapons, now manufactures a variety of commercial and military products. In keeping with rapidly changing technology, Boeing is in the Space age... |
| Key to Immune Cell's 'Internal Guidance' System Discovered -; University of British Columbia researchers have discovered the molecular pathway that enables receptors inside immune cells to find, and flag, fragments of pathogens trying to invade a... |
| NASA to help Tunisia manage water resources through space remote sensing TUNIS, Jan. 30 (Xinhua) -- The United States' space agency, NASA, will help Tunisia better manage its water resources, the official Tunisian press agency TAP reported on Monday. A project... |
| Delay for space station's 1st private cargo run The first commercial cargo run to the International Space Station is off until spring. SpaceX planned to launch its unmanned supply ship from Cape Canaveral on Feb. 7. But the company said more... |
| Science's 'most beautiful theories' From Darwinian evolution to the idea that personality is largely shaped by chance, the favorite theories of the world's most eminent thinkers are as eclectic as science itself. Every January,... |
| Russian space probe to crash to Earth within hours In this Nov. 2, 2011 file photo distributed by Russian Roscosmos space agency technicians work on the Phobos-Ground probe at Baikonur, Kazakhstan. The spacecraft is expected to fall to Earth around... |
| 10 science stories that made us blush in 2011 Sometimes science delves into taboo subjects -- and turns up interesting results. This year was no exception, with researchers delving into such blush-worthy topics as premature orgasms, sex toys and... |
| Harper heads to China Canada's Prime Minister Stephen Harper speaks before the start of an interview with Reuters in his office on Parliament Hill in Ottawa February 3, 2012. REUTERS/Chris Wattie OTTAWA - Several... |
| Snowboarder hits tree stump, dies CALGARY -- Tragedy took over a day of outdoor fun at Castle Mountain Saturday afternoon, as a young woman may have watched her husband-to-be snowboard to his death. A Calgary man, 30, was tackling... |
| Superbugs spied off the Antarctic coast Bjrn Olsen of Uppsala University in Sweden and colleagues took seawater samples between 10 and 300 metres away from Chile's Antarctic research stations, Bernardo O'Higgins, Arturo Prat and... |
| Self-guided bullets to hit target a mile away U.S. researchers have developed a self-guided bullet. The 10 cm, dart-like bullet can hit laser-designated targets more than 1.6 km away. Sandia National Laboratories/HANDOUT U.S. researchers have... |
