Washington, September 10 : Tel Aviv University researchers have written a unique software program called the ‘Korset’ that can stop computer viruses from wreaking havoc on the servers running on Linux, the operating system used by the majority of web and email servers worldwide.

Avishai Wool, a professor in the university’s Faculty of Engineering, says that the new software can predict how any insidious program residing inside a computer for months or years after developing immunity to anti-virus solutions should behave in the future.

This advance is significant because most anti-virus companies often take days before their software updates can prepare one’s computer for the next attack.

“Spore Origins”, the original game designed for Apple’s iPhone and iPod gadgets, will be launched this month by Electronic Arts Mobile. The other games in the pipiline are, Yahtzee Adventures, EA Mini Golf, Lemonade Tycoon, Mahjong, Monopoly, Here & Now the World Edition, SimCity, Tiger Woods PGA Tour 09, Need for Speed Undercover and The Sims 3. All these games are suitable for both platforms.

The iPhone’s inbuilt accelerometer is fully used by the “Spore Origins” and the players also have to tilt and turn to escape the seep and work their way up the evolutionary ladder.

New Delhi - Germany and India on Tuesday launched a strategic initiative which will foster cooperation between science and industry on innovation in skill development, industrial growth and life sciences.

India's Science Minister Kapil Sibal and German Federal Minister for Education and Research, Annette Schavan inaugurated the Indo-German Science and Technology Centre (IGSTC) in New Delhi for which each side will provide 10 million euros over the next five years.

Oslo - Norwegian Crown Prince Haakon Tuesday presented the newly created Kavli prizes to seven scientists for their discoveries in astrophysics, neuroscience and nanoscience.

The prize categories are each worth 1 million dollars, and were jointly sponsored by the Kavli Foundation set up by US-based Norwegian Fred Kavli, and the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.

Maarten Schmidt of the California Institute of Technology shared the astrophysics prize with Donald Lynden-Bell of Britain's Cambridge University for work on quasars.

Spremberg, Germany  - An electricity plant that burns lignite coal but does not pollute the atmosphere with carbon dioxide was billed Tuesday in Germany as the future of coal power.

The utility Vattenfall built the pilot plant on the Schwarze Pumpe Industrial Estate at Spremberg near Germany's Polish border. It burns lignite dust mixed with pure oxygen, then captures the resulting carbon dioxide to be buried in deep rock.

"Coal has a future, but emissions of carbon dioxide don't," said Tuomo Hatakka, chief executive of the Swedish-based utility's German unit, Vattenfall Europe, just before Tuesday's commissioning of the experimental plant.

Washington, Sept 9 : Virginia Tech researchers have created a new class of stable fullerene molecules by replacing a carbon atom with nitrogen in the all-carbon structure.

Chemistry Professor Harry Dorn says that this work may pave the way for molecular semiconductors and quantum computing applications.

Fullerenes are a family of carbon allotropes, molecules composed entirely of carbon, in the form of a hollow sphere, ellipsoid, tube, or plane.

In a previous study, Dorn had devised a way to play with fullerenes, and displayed how to put other atoms inside an 80-atom molecule.