London, April 3: In a live 24-hour webcast today, anyone on the Internet will get a unique opportunity to explore some of the most advanced astronomical observatories both on and off the planet, as part of the International Year of Astronomy (IYA2009) initiative ‘Around the World in 80 Telescopes’.
London, April 3: A new study has warned that Britain is breeding a generation of computer hackers with one in three teenagers admitting that they would commit cyber crimes for money.
According to a report in the Telegraph, a third of those polled said they would consider hacking or spying on the Internet if they could earn money by doing so.
The survey, which polled 1,000 children and parents across the Britain, was undertaken by Internet security firm Trend Micro.
London, Apr 3: Nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) can help smokers kick the habit even when they don’t think they are ready, says a new study.
The British Medical Journal study is the first of its kind to focus on sustained smoking abstinence using NRT for smokers who have no immediate plans to stop smoking.
To reach the conclusion, University of Birmingham researchers carried out a systematic review of seven randomised controlled trials that compared the outcomes of using NRT gum or inhalators to placebos.
London, Apr. 3 : Visiting US President Barack Obama is of the view that leadership-related negotiations in the new millennium (21st century) are far more complicated and different to the negotiations held 68 years ago during and after the second World War.
Speaking on the sidelines of the second Group of Twenty (G-20) Summit that was held here, Obama said: "If there's just Roosevelt and Churchill sitting in a room with a brandy, that's an easier negotiation."