Washington, Nov 19: Glaciologists have been unable to find the expected radioactive signals in the latest core they drilled from a Himalayan ice field, which suggests absence of accumulation of ice in the region, that could impact water resources for the people living in that part of Asia.
The researchers determined that the missing markers of radiation, remnants from atomic bomb tests a half-century ago, foretell much greater threat to the half-billion or more people living downstream of that vast mountain range.
Washington, Nov 19 : The popularity of social networking websites like Facebook and MySpace has led students to create idealized versions of themselves for their thousands of friends, say UCLA psychologists.
The researchers have claimed that the youngsters are using their virtual self to explore their emerging identities.
The study, based on small focus groups with a total of 11 women and 12 men, all UCLA students who use MySpace frequently, also revealed that parents often understand very little about this phenomenon.
Washington, Nov 19 : American Vice President Dick Cheney and former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales have been indicted on separate charges related to alleged prisoner abuse in federal detention centers.
A South Texas grand jury has indicted Cheney and Gonzales on charges related to the alleged abuse of prisoners in Willacy County’s federal detention centers.
Washington - Veteran Alaskan Republican Senator Ted Stevens narrowly lost his bid for re-election, increasing the Democrats' majority in the US upper house, US media reported late Tuesday.
Stevens, 85, the longest-serving Republican in the Senate, will be replaced by the mayor of Anchorage, Democrat Mark Begich, 46.
As Alaska's division of elections counted the last absentee ballots from the November 4 election, Begich was ahead by 3,724 votes, an insurmountable lead with only a few thousand absentee ballots left to be counted, reported Alaska's KIMO TV news.
Washington, Nov 19 : NASA has successfully tested the first deep space communications network modeled on the Internet, the first step in developing an interplanetary Internet.
Working as part of a NASA-wide team, engineers from NASA''s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, used software called Disruption-Tolerant Networking (DTN) to transmit dozens of space images to and from a NASA science spacecraft located about 20 million miles from Earth.
Washington, Nov 19: Glaciologists have been unable to find the expected radioactive signals in the latest core they drilled from a Himalayan ice field, which suggests absence of accumulation of ice in the region, that could impact water resources for the people living in that part of Asia.
Washington, Nov 19 : American Vice President Dick Cheney and former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales have been indicted on separate charges related to alleged prisoner abuse in federal detention centers.
Washington - Veteran Alaskan Republican Senator Ted Stevens narrowly lost his bid for re-election, increasing the Democrats' majority in the US upper house, US media reported late Tuesday.
Washington, Nov 19 : NASA has successfully tested the first deep space communications network modeled on the Internet, the first step in developing an interplanetary Internet.
