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• BHEL, Airtel, HDFC among 10 Indian firms on Forbes
Ten Indian companies led by Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd (BHEL), Bharti Airtel and HDFC Bank are on the Forbes' list of 50 of the best of Asia-Pacific's biggest listed companies, out of a universe of 500.
• Scientists puzzled by water vapor mystery on Mars
Washington, September 5 : Scientists have been puzzled with the findings of a fork-like conductivity probe on Mars, which senses water vapor rising and falling beside NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander, but when stuck into the ground, its measurements so far indicate soil that is thoroughly and perplexingly dry.
• Our solar system may have caught "seeds of life" from a distant star
London, September 5 : A new study has indicated that a star in a distant solar system may have thrown the building blocks of life our way, which were then caught by our star - the Sun.
• Astronomers discover missing link for origin of comets
Washington, September 5 : An international team of astronomers has found an unusual object whose backward and tilted orbit around the Sun may clarify the origins of certain comets.
• Look, Up in the Sky! Strange Star Names
From midnorthern latitudes in September, Delphinus can be seen high in the southern sky around midnight. Less than an outstretched hand's width away from Altair, one point of the Summer Triangle aster...
• Is our understanding of the Universe about to be transformed by the Large Hadron Collider
Next Wednesday the biggest machine and international scientific experiment ever built will be switched on. Called the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), it is a giant $10bn "atom smasher" that h...
• Saturn of Roseville to combine with Chevy dealership
. It's the latest local auto dealer to be affected by the economic downturn and flagging auto sales. As part of the consolidation, about 30 Sullivan Auto Group employees have been laid off or red...
• Billion-dollar European probe set for asteroid encounter
has been prodded from deep slumber to make a rare encounter with an asteroid, the intriguing orbital debris that could offer clues into the making of the
• Odds grow for shuttle catastrophe
NASA Administrator Michael Griffin said Thursday that he's examining what it would take to keep the space shuttle flying for five years past its 2010 retirement date. In an interview with the Orlan...
• Super Human Black Men, From Other Planets, Will Appear In Spaceships Over Las Vegas, NV
Starting Sept. 11 until Nov. 11, 2008, Prophet Yahweh, Seer of Yahweh, Master UFO Caller, will be summoning UFO flying machines for the world to see via the "UFO TV News" broadcast channel. ...
• ESA spacecraft set for flyby of Steins asteroid
News ) - Scientists at the European Space Agency are preparing for the first fly-by of an asteroid by their deep-space explorer, Rosetta, on a mission to solve the mystery of the birth of the solar sy...
• Space Shuttle Atlantis hauled to launch pad in Florida
NASA hauled the space shuttle Atlantis to the seaside launch pad, hopeful a trio of storms churning over the Atlantic Ocean will steer clear of the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
• Abu Dhabi group makes $354 million bid for English soccer team
LONDON - A bid by an Arab consortium for one of England's most prominent but underachieving soccer teams has amplified a noisy debate about the astronomical finances of the game – and the d...
• Nasa prepares for launch despite storm threat
Florida - Nasa hauled the space shuttle Atlantis to the seaside launch pad on Thursday, hopeful a trio of storms churning over the Atlantic Ocean will steer clear of the Kennedy Space Centre in Florid...
• 200,000 Marooned in Mud As Storm Devastates Haiti
Posted on: Friday, 5 September 2008, 00:00 CDT By Sadie Gray Residents of Haiti were last night clearing up the devastation caused by Tropical Storm Hanna, as officials in the US prepared for the sto...
• L-3 Interstate Electronics Introduces New GPS Receivers
L-3 Interstate Electronics has announced its latest miniaturized GPS receiver. The TruTrak Evolution receiver is a single board L1/L2 24-channel secure GPS receiver that electronically pinpoints exact...
• NAPA Dealers Add GPS Tracking Key To Automotive Product Line
LandAirSea Systems has announced that they have begun distributing the increasingly popular GPS Tracking Key to NAPA automotive dealers across the country. NAPA has been a long time supplier of repla...
• MiTAC Extends Relationship With Tele Atlas
Tele Atlas and MiTAC International have announced that MiTAC navigation solution subsidiaries Mio and Navman have extended their agreements to use Tele Atlas digital maps and content for each brand's ...
• Last-Ever Look At ESA Gravity Satellite GOCE
The sleek high-tech GOCE satellite embodies many firsts in terms of its design and use of new technology in space to map Earth's gravity field in unprecedented detail.
• Caltrans Names NAVTEQ In US DoT
To support the overall VII network communications, a central objective of Safe Trip 21, NAVTEQ will also provide specific roadway signage attributes such as speed limits, highway exit information, and...
• DLR Mapping Provides Rapid Relief After Flooding In Nepal And North India
After an embankment on the Koshi river in eastern Nepal was breached on 18 August 2008, there was extensive flooding. This affected more than three million people, destroying 250 000 homes in 1600 vil...
• Opportunity To Exit Victoria Crater
Engineers have not yet determined what caused the anomaly. Though the wheel appears to have gone back to functioning normally, the condition of its drive motor is uncertain. Because of concerns that t...
• Build Your Own Alien at Home
may follow in its wake. The new title from powerhouse video game developer Electronic Arts, hitting the shelves and download sites this week, is an example of art imitating science. The game is the...
• Aurora Signs Contract To Build Minotaur IV Composite Structures
Aurora Flight Sciences has announced that it has been awarded a contract from Orbital to build Minotaur IV Composite Structures. Recognizing that Orbital's strategy was to develop the Minotaur IV Lau...
• Spirit Still Biding Time
Spirit continues to ride out the Martian winter by doing minimal activities to conserve power. The rover completes very light science observations every three to four Martian days, known as sols, and ...
• Robot Scout Will Test New Lunar Landing Techniques For Future Explorers
Astronaut Edwin E."Buzz" Aldrin Jr., Lunar Module pilot, surveys the Apollo 11 landing site on July 20, 1969. He has just deployed the Early Apollo Scientific Experiments Package, with the Passive Sei...
• Spiky Probe On Phoenix Raises Vapor Quandary
A fork-like conductivity probe has sensed humidity rising and falling beside NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander, but when stuck into the ground, its measurements so far indicate soil that is thoroughly and pe...
• e2v To Supply 16-Megapixel CCD Sensors For VLT In Chile
e2v has accepted a new contract from the European Southern Observatory (ESO) to provide CCD image sensors for the Very Large Telescope operated in Chile. e2v will supply ESO, the largest astronomical ...
• Pay at the Pump
Sylvanus F. Bowser delivers the first gasoline pump. It improves safety, but can't guarantee low prices. The automobile was yet to be invented, and gasoline was a byproduct of refining kerosene f...
• Distilling 2.0 -- Bye-Bye Boiling, Hello Health Care
PASADENA, California – For all you moonshine makers who thought your hobby was just a guilty pleasure, a new spin on distilling may actually help save lives. Using ancient technology reduced to a mi...
• Crossing the English Channel in a Pedal-Powered Airship*
You know it's hard up here for a blimp. Or so says Stephane Rousson, a 39-year-old Frenchman who's hoping to cross the English Channel in a homemade, pedal-powered airship. As a child, he was captivat...
• Oklahoma Teen Sucked into Storm Drain
Posted on: Thursday, 4 September 2008, 15:00 CDT A 14-year-old girl managed to escape from a storm drain in Tulsa, Okla., after she was sucked into the underground site, authorities say. Tulsa Fire D...
• Abramoff Sentenced to Four More Years
Posted on: Thursday, 4 September 2008, 21:00 CDT A federal judge in Washington Thursday imposed an extra four years on shamed lobbyist Jack Abramoff and ordered him to pay $15 million in restitution....
• Palin Takes Stage -- Republican VP Hopeful Mocks Obama, Tweaks Media in Convention Address
Posted on: Thursday, 4 September 2008, 21:00 CDT By David Espo ST. PAUL, Minn. - Claiming her historic spot on the Republican ticket, vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin mocked Barack Obama's exp...
• The state of the scripting universe
September 3, 2008 (CIO) The former second-class citizens of the programming world have leaped to the fore, changing the face of enterprise software development. With the rise of Web 2.0, scripting lan...
• Giant Ice Sheet Breaks Free in Canada
TORONTO (AP) -- A chunk of ice shelf nearly the size of Manhattan has broken away from Ellesmere Island in Canada's northern Arctic, another dramatic indication of how warmer temperatures are changing...
• 10 great Google Earth add-ons
"The Strangest Sights in Google Earth," some things in this world are simply out of this world. To find such wonderful sights, you can call on a large library of Earth add-ons. As authors of the Web ...
• File Sharing Lawsuits at Crossroads, After 5 Years of Litigation
RIAA attorney Donald Verrilli Jr. says file sharers are automatically liable for copyright infringement and monetary damages for using peer-to-peer networks. Casey Lentz is trying to settle her RIAA l...
• Science, Conspiracies and
pilot , debuting Tuesday on Fox, introduces federal investigator Olivia Dunham (played by Australian newcomer Anna Torv), her unlikely ally Peter Bishop (Joshua Jackson) and his mad scientist father, ...
• Comcast Appealing FCC Throttling Order
Comcast on Thursday appealed the Federal Communication Commission's order that it stop its controversial practice of throttling file sharing traffic. On Aug. 1, FCC commissioners concluded on a 3-2 v...
• Detroit Mayor Perjury Plea Deal Near -- But Hearing on Ouster of Kilpatrick Goes On
Posted on: Thursday, 4 September 2008, 21:00 CDT By Ed White; Corey Williams DETROIT - Prosecutors accusing Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick of lying on the witness stand to cover up an extramarital af...
• McCain to Discuss Problem-Solving
Posted on: Thursday, 4 September 2008, 21:00 CDT John McCain will discuss how he will "get this country moving again" when he accepts the Republican U.S. presidential nomination Thursday in St. Paul,...
• Share More Than Videos With YouTube
0 Times In the first lesson of this tutorial, we looked at the YouTube Player API, a handy tool which allows you to customize, skin and otherwise control the playback of YouTube videos you embed on...
• The LHC Will Revolutionize Physics. Can it Revolutionize the Internet Too
One gigabyte per second? No problem. The LHC computing grid could revolutionize how we handle data over Internet (CERN) We already know that the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will be the biggest, most e...
• Phoenix Probe Says Both Yes and No to Water on Mars
Mars Lander has a fork-like conductivity probe on it's robotic arm, and results from the instrument are presenting a bit of a quandary for mission scientists. The thermal and electroconductivity ...
• Green Biodomes and Vegetarian Piranhas
Wired Science's new first video podcast will lead you on a behind-the-scenes tour of the rebuilt California Academy of Sciences. The lead-off piece focuses on the actual construction of this amazing...
• Palin Unleashes Political Punches ; In Speech Full of Moxie, Veep Nominee Wallops Obama, Media,
Posted on: Thursday, 4 September 2008, 21:00 CDT By Robert J. McCarthy America on Wednesday met Sarah Palin, the Alaska governor who wowed the Republican National Convention with a flurry of attacks ...
• Strange new comet explains old mystery
This chart shows the orbital paths (looking along the plane of the solar system) for the comet 2008 KV42 as well as other objects in the outer solar system.
• BHP Billiton Preparing To Restart Neptune Oil Production
BHP completed a shut down of Neptune last Saturday as Gustav approached, but said staff have now returned and are prepared to bring the facility back online. "Once the pipelines are ready to accept h...
• Zoho Docs Unites Writer, Sheet and Show
We’ve covered every iterative web application to fall under Zoho’s office suite thus far — namely its writer, spreadsheet and presentation software. However, besides a single sign on...
• New TiVo DVR Proves Bigger Is Sometimes Better
implanting the next-generation iPod in our molars . But there's at least one company that isn’t succumbing to all this smaller-is-better madness: Tivo just announced the Tivo HD XL. Stuffed like a ...
• Black holes for kids
Quantum fluctuations in space, science, exploration and other cosmic fields... served up regularly by MSNBC.com science editor Alan Boyle since 2002. Alan Boyle covers the physical sciences, anthro...
• Cancer Research Heads Down New Pathway
The future of cancer drug development may be targeting pathways rather than single genes and their products. Two new and unprecedentedly detailed analyses of pancreatic and brain cancers found dozens...
• Science Proves Exotic Cars Turn Women On
A study commissioned by a phallically named insurance company proves beyond all doubt that the unbridled roar of an Italian supercar turns women on but the soft purr of a fuel-efficient econobox doesn...
• US Astronauts May Have to Leave Space Station 2012
A Soyuz approaches the ISS. Credit: NASA Because of stalled legislation that is needed to allow NASA to pay the Russian Space Agency to ferry US astronauts to the International Space Station on board ...
• Laser Comb Measures Accelerating Universe
Astronomical instruments needed to answer crucial questions, such as the search for Earth-like planets or the way the Universe expands, have come a step closer with the first demonstration at t...
• Tropical Storm Josephine Weakens a Bit
Posted on: Thursday, 4 September 2008, 12:00 CDT Tropical Storm Josephine lost some strength over the central Atlantic Ocean midday Thursday, forecasters at the U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miam...
• Pure Earth fully reporting to SEC
Pure Earth Inc . said Wednesday that it is now fully reporting to the Securities and Exchange Commission. “The public will have greater access to the company and its business strategies which p...
• Next Generation Night Sky Navigator Adds New Content and Enhanced Multimedia Presentations to Transform Ordinary Backyard
(NasdaqGM: MEAD), the leading designer and manufacturer of telescopes and optical accessories for both professional and amateur astronomy enthusiasts worldwide is giving amateur astronomers and back...
• 5 iPhone Applications That Replace Your Tools
When the iPhone first made its way, mewling and puking, into this world, it was billed as a "revolutionary" convergence of phone, MP3 player and web device. Sure, we'd seen this before, but ...
• UPlayMe Says BYO Music to This Social
A former senior vice president of consumer marketing for Warner Music Group has jumped ship from the major label for a startup called uPlayMe that promises to connect music consumers around the music ...
• Week 1 Nfl Preview Redskins At Giants
Posted on: Thursday, 4 September 2008, 15:00 CDT By BEN STEELE When: 6 p.m. Thursday. Line: Giants by 3 1/2 Series record: Giants lead, 86-62-4. Last time they met: The Redskins won, 22-10, to earn a...
• New Orleans Reluctantly Opens Doors TO THOSE WHO FLED Gustav
Posted on: Thursday, 4 September 2008, 09:00 CDT By MARY FOSTER By Mary Foster and Melinda Deslatte The Associated Press NEW ORLEANS Thousands of people who fled Hurricane Gustav forced the city to r...
• Bush Proposes $1B in U.S. Aid to Georgia
Posted on: Thursday, 4 September 2008, 09:00 CDT By Steven Lee Myers New York Times News Service BAKU, Azerbaijan -- President Bush proposed $1 billion in humanitarian and economic assistance on Wedn...
• Spears Slated to Kick Off MTV Video Awards Again
Posted on: Thursday, 4 September 2008, 09:05 CDT It's Britney, baby, one more time. Despite her train-wreck performance at the MTV Video Music Awards last year, the network confirms Spears will kick ...
• Peanuts Animator Melendez Dies at 91
Posted on: Thursday, 4 September 2008, 09:05 CDT SANTA MONICA, Calif. (AP) -- Bill Melendez, the animator who gave life to Snoopy, Charlie Brown and other Peanuts characters on scores of movies and t...
• Serena Rallies Past Venus into Semifinals
Posted on: Thursday, 4 September 2008, 09:05 CDT By Howard Fendrich / The Associated Press Serena Williams barely got the better of older sister Venus Williams in a U.S. Open quarterfinal that was fi...
• Pakistan Foreign Minister Terms NATO Attack "Shameful"
Posted on: Thursday, 4 September 2008, 09:00 CDT Text of report headlined "Qureshi Denounces Nato Attack on Angoor Adda" published by Pakistani newspaper The News website on 4 September Islamabad: Fo...
• U.S. Forces Cross the Border into Pakistan in Taliban Raid
Posted on: Thursday, 4 September 2008, 09:00 CDT By Paul Alexander Associated Press ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- American forces launched a raid inside Pakistan Wednesday, a senior U.S. military official s...
• Delegates Give Palin a Wild GOP Welcome
Posted on: Thursday, 4 September 2008, 09:00 CDT By Josh Loftin and Lisa Riley Roche Deseret News ST. PAUL, Minn. -- Republican delegates Wednesday night wildly welcomed the first woman ever to be no...
• U.S.-Afghan Pursuit of Taliban into Pakistan Kills 20 People
Posted on: Thursday, 4 September 2008, 09:00 CDT From wire reports ISLAMABAD, Pakistan At least 20 people were killed in northwest Pakistan on Wednesday after U.S. and Afghan troops crossed from Afgh...
• Speakers Criticize Obama; Then Palin Adds Own Barbs Gov. Palin Makes Her Case
Posted on: Thursday, 4 September 2008, 09:00 CDT By DAVID ESPO Claiming her historic spot on the Republican ticket, vice- presidential candidate Sarah Palin unleashed a cutting attack on Barack Obama...
• Cocaine, Meth Use in Young Adults is Down, Study Finds Report
Posted on: Thursday, 4 September 2008, 09:00 CDT The Associated Press WASHINGTON Cocaine and methamphetamine use among young adults declined significantly last year as supplies dried up, leading to h...
• Cheney Supports Georgia for NATO
Posted on: Thursday, 4 September 2008, 09:00 CDT Vice President Dick Cheney said Thursday he assured the leaders of Georgia they can lean on the United States as a solid ally in conflicts with Russia...
• HANNA Turns Our Way
Posted on: Thursday, 4 September 2008, 09:00 CDT By LAUREN KING By Lauren King The Virginian-Pilot Tropical Storm Hanna's projected path slowly crept eastward Wednesday, placing Hampton Roads and nor...
• Boeing Strike Given 48-Hour Reprieve
Posted on: Thursday, 4 September 2008, 09:00 CDT A last-minute intervention by Washington Gov. Chris Gregoire kept 27,000 Boeing workers at their jobs after a strike had been set, union leaders said....
• Big Easy is Open, but Power
Posted on: Thursday, 4 September 2008, 09:00 CDT By Mary Foster and Melinda Deslatte Associated Press NEW ORLEANS -- Thousands of people who fled Hurricane Gustav forced the city to reluctantly open ...
• Protesters decry NASA hacker
A peaceful protest supporting self-confessed NASA hacker Gary McKinnon took place this week in London. About 35 backers showed up Tuesday in front of the
• Experimental Breast Cancer Test Looks Promising
A radioactive tracer that "lights up" cancer hiding inside dense breasts showed promise in its first big test against mammograms, revealing more tumors and giving fewer false alarms, doctors reported ...
• Who the Heck Raps About Particle Physics
EAST LANSING, Mich. (AP) -- Who says science doesn't turn people on? Kate McAlpine is a rising star on YouTube for her rap performance - about high-energy particle physics.
• Why Early Earth Did Not Freeze
Early in Earth's history, our solar system was a much different place. When the sun was very young, it was faint and provided little heat for the Earth. However, even in its chilly beginnings, the s...
• Advantage Serena As Venus Falters in Open
Posted on: Thursday, 4 September 2008, 06:00 CDT By Douglas Robson NEW YORK -- Close in life, equal on the tennis court, little again separated Venus and Serena Williams in their latest Grand Slam to...
• Earth-Friendly Animal Toys Help Save Real Endangered Species
Xeko Pals are based on the most popular characters from the Xeko eco-adventure game. The toys are made with soy and certified organic cotton "fur" and filled with soy-based stuffing, an indu...
• The Fastest Man on Earth Aims to be the Fastest Man on Water
The 24 hour human powered boat distance record attempt September 8, 2008 on Whitefish Lake, Montana. The farthest distance a human has travelled under his own power is 647 miles by Greg Kolodziejzyk...
• Pakistan Ground Assault Marks New Strategy
Posted on: Thursday, 4 September 2008, 03:00 CDT The United States, having sent troops on a raid into Pakistan, may be employing a new strategy against militants staging attacks on Afghanistan. The r...
• The stars come out for GQ awards
He is not known for his dress sense, but Boris Johnson was presented with an award by style gurus Trinny and Susannah. The Mayor of London was named Politician of the Year at the celebrity...
• Mercury rising and Venus, too
Venus continues to climb higher into the western twilight this month. Look for it low in the west about 30 minutes after sunset. Using your binoculars, look slightly to the lower left of Venus and yo...
• Nasa expert meets activists
A top climate change scientist and adviser to Al Gore is meeting activists opposed to plans to build a new coal-fired power station in Kent. James Hansen, head of Nasa's Goddard Institute for Space S...
• What Your Boss Can Learn From Birds and Bees
than a goose? Sure you are — one on one. But when it comes to working efficiently, you and your colleagues can't touch the gaggle. According to author Ken Thompson, geese and other animals that ...
• Short, Unhappy Life of the Edsel
, the Edsel still takes the cake. Although as mechanically sound as other Ford products, the car was criticized from Day One for being too ugly, too expensive and vastly overhyped. The
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