London, Sept 20 : Scientists at University College Dublin, Ireland have discovered that pseudomonas bacteria can convert the low-grade PET plastic used in drinks bottles into a more valuable and bi

Washington, September 20 : An international team of astrophysicists has found and “weighed” the most massive star to date, which has a mass 116 times greater than that of the Sun.

The team was led by Universite de Montreal researchers from the Centre de recherche en astrophysique du Quebec (CRAQ).

They successfully “weighed” a star of a binary system with a mass 116 times greater than that of the Sun, waltzing with a companion of 89 solar masses, doubly beating the previous record and breaking the symbolic barrier of 100 solar masses for the first time.

Located in the massive star cluster NGC 3603, the supermassive star system, known under the name of A1, has a rotation period of 3.77 days.

New Delhi, Sept 19 : Indian Railways is planning to provide satellite-based internet facility in premier trains to enable passengers to use laptops.

In Mumbai-Ahmedabad Shatabdi Express a trial run is already underway and our aim is to provide internet facility in certain premium trains including Rajdhani and Shatabdi, said a senior Railways ministry official.

Besides, there are plans to introduce onboard audio and video entertainment system for passengers during the train journey.

Seoul  - North Korea said Friday that it had begun work to restart its Yongbyon nuclear reactor because the United States had failed to keep promises it made in nuclear talks.

The reactor, which North Korea shut down last year as part of those talks, can supply plutonium that can be used to make nuclear bombs.

Sydney, Sept 19: Internet search engine “Google” has jumped ten spots to reach at number 10 in the list of the “Best Global Brands 2008”.

Google, which has built on its dominance in internet searches to expand into software, video, mapping and web browsing, was “the undisputed king of the internet world”, and its brand value had shot up by 43 per cent, from 21.9 billion dollars to 31.5 billion dollars, said a report in news. com. au.

According to the report, the annual study on the hottest brands in the world showed that tech companies put on the strongest showing, financial companies were the weakest, in.

The leading computer equipment producer Inte,l launched six-core Xeon processors on Monday. The new range of processors would provide high end server services. The 7400 series would contain seven CPUs with up to six cores and16MB of L3 cache. The new product range operates at 65W TDP while the old one operated at 50 W. Thus new range is developed for low power consumption. The new product range is expected to give stiff competition to its competitor AMD. The new Xenon series is developed by the Bangalore based team of the company.