New Delhi, Sept 26 : Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) today celebrated its 66th Foundation Day with great enthusiasm.

Union Minister for Science and Technology and Earth Sciences Kapil Sibal gave away the CSIR Young Scientist Awards 2008 and the CSIR Technology Awards 2008 at a function organized in New Delhi today to mark the occasion.

In his address, the Minister called upon the scientific community to bring science out of laboratories in the form of solutions to the day-to-day problems of the people.

Washington, Sept 26 : Getting away with Wi-Fi "dead zones" in large wireless networks that cover whole neighborhoods or cities can take a toll on your pocket. But now, thanks to a new technology, the whole procedure can be cheap and easy – without any dead zones. 

Usually pre-deployment testing turns out to be so costly that majority of WiFi providers simply build their networks first and fill in the gaps later. 

However, it’s still not easy, because of the paucity of inexpensive techniques for mapping out precisely which areas lack coverage. 

Washington, September 26 : Researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have opened the door for significant improvements in the fuel efficiency of cars and aeroplanes by solving a century old engineering problem regarding how fluids—such as gasses and liquids—move. 

The researchers say that their new mathematical and experimental work can help predict where the airflow around a vehicle cannot keep up and will detach from it, a phenomenon scientifically known as aerodynamic separation.

Fluid flows affect everything in our world, from blood flow to geophysical convection, and, thus, engineers constantly seek ways of controlling separation in such flows to reduce losses and increase efficiency.

Extraordinary software is under the process of creation by University of Illinois, which can determine your exact age just by looking at your face. 

As reported by Thomas S. Huang, professor of electrical and computer engineering at Illinois, “Age-estimation software is useful in applications where you don't need to specifically identify someone but would like to know their age.”

Wednesday saw Sony Ericsson’s President Dick Komiyama announcing that the company has been studying Google's Android mobile operating system, but was not able to accept it. 

At a media event in the southern Swedish city of Lund, where the company has a research and development site, Komiyama reported, “We are certainly studying this opportunity, although we're not in a position to do this at this moment. We should look at this application. We are certainly interested.”

“Mind-reading” Security Scanner, To Enhance Security Measures At Airports

With a unique invention in mind, US these days, is busy testing a security scanner which reportedly can read the mind of the persons. This “mind-reading” security scanner, named “Malintent” basically looks for the non-verbal cues in the body to foresee whether the person intends to cause any harm to the other passengers.