Washington, Oct 17 : When a manned mission is finally sent to Mars, the whole world will be able to watch ‘live’ television coverage of the event, all thanks to CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation).

The US space agency NASA has announced that CSIRO research scientist, Dr John Bunton, is to receive a NASA Space Act Board Award for research into the development of a novel ‘beamformer’ capable of providing a live video link from Mars.

Washington, October 17 (ANI): The timing of choosing what kind of speech a candidate standing in a political election should deliver actually matters when it comes to persuading novice voters, according to a study.

Hakkyun Kim of Concordia University, Akshay Rao of the University of Minnesota, and Angela Lee of Northwestern University have found that voters seem to be quite interested in abstract themes when facing a choice in the distant future.

Washington, Oct 17 : A team of scientists have used CT-scanning to look inside the bizarre crests on the skulls of duck-billed dinosaurs to suggest that the bony crests were used for communication by sound and signal.

Paleontologists have long debated the function of the strange, bony crests on the heads of the duck-billed dinosaurs known as lambeosaurs.

The structures contain incredibly long, convoluted nasal passages that loop up over the tops of their skulls.

Scientists at the University of Toronto, Ohio University and Montana State University now have used CT-scanning to look inside these mysterious crests and reconstruct the brains and nasal cavities of four different lambeosaur species.

Washington, Oct 17 : A new study in mice, conducted by researchers at the Duke University Medical Center, has shown that the part of the brain that processes scents is indeed a key part of forming long-term memories, especially involving other individuals.

During the study, the researchers examined how strong memories are formed by creating new memories in the minds of mice while under sedation and monitoring their response to a memory-inducing stimulus afterwards, when they were awake.

"Our work is unique because it allows us to examine the cellular make-up of a memory, evaluate how the neurons change when a memory is formed and learn how that memory affects behaviour," said Stephen Shea, Ph. D., the lead author of the study.

With International Financial Crisis having hit nearly all commercial sectors including the IT industry, the announcement made by Rajendra B Vattikutti, President Computer Science Corporation (CSC), a US based IT company, to increase its workforce in India by 2000 people may have brought a smile on the faces of many un-employed youths in India.

The company has centers in Noida, Indore, Hyderabad, Chennai, Mumbai, Bangalore and Vadodara, all dealing in three major businesses i.e. business solution and services, global outsourcing services and the North American Public Sector.

Washington, Oct 17 : A new analysis of samples from a classic ‘origin-of-life’ experiment by NASA has suggested that lightning and gases from volcanic eruptions could have given rise to the first life on Earth.