Washington, Oct 15 : The discovery of a new fossil in the US has suggested that more than 40 million years ago, primates preferred Texas to northern climates that were significantly cooling.
Discovered by Chris Kirk from The University of Texas at Austin and Blythe Williams from Duke University, the primate is known by the scientific name of Diablomomys dalquesti.
It is a new genus and species of primate that dates to 44 - 43 million years ago when tropical forests and active volcanoes covered west Texas.
Washington - The United States' teetering economic future was expected to be front and centre in the final debate Wednesday evening between Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama and rival Republican candidate John McCain, who have spent the week sharpening their financial spears.
The round-table encounter at Hofstra University on Long Island outside New York City is seen by some as a last-chance bid by the centre-right McCain, 72, to rescue a flagging campaign.
Washington, Oct 15 : NASA''s Spitzer Space Telescope has deeply observed comet Holmes to find out why it suddenly exploded in 2007.
Observations taken of the comet by Spitzer deepen the mystery, showing oddly behaving streamers in the shell of dust surrounding the nucleus of the comet.
The data also offer a rare look at the material liberated from within comet Holmes'' nucleus, and confirm previous findings from NASA''s Stardust and Deep Impact missions.
Washington, October 15 : A study on monkeys has shed new light on Blindsight—a phenomenon in which patients with damage in the primary visual cortex of the brain can tell where an object is, even when they are unable to see it.
Professor Tadashi Isa and Dr. Masatoshi Yoshida, who led the study at the National Institute for Physiological Sciences in Japan, said that they had uncovered compelling evidence that blindsight occurs because visual information is conveyed bypassing the primary visual cortex.
Published in the Journal of Neuroscience, their findings have been backed by Japan Science and Technology Agency supported.
Washington, Oct 15 : Democratic candidate in the ensuing US presidential poll, Barack Obama’s high-tech campaign has entered into the popular racing video game “Burnout Paradise”.
Game-maker “Electronic Arts” confirmed that the Obama campaign ads were the real deal.
“Like most TV, radio and print outlets, we accept advertising from credible political candidates,” foxnew. com quoted EA spokeswoman Holly Rockwood as telling the tech blog GigaOm.
San Francisco - Intel, the world's dominant maker of the microprocessors that run computers, reported record third quarter revenue of 10.2 billion dollars Tuesday.
But the positive earnings were tempered by a fourth-quarter outlook that included a tepid prognosis for the all important holiday season.
The Silicon Valley icon, which conducts 80 per cent of its business internationally, said net income climbed 12 per cent to 2.01 billion dollars, or 35 cents a share, from 1.79 billion dollars, or 30 cents, a year earlier.
Washington - The United States' teetering economic future was expected to be front and centre in the final debate Wednesday evening between Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama and rival Republican candidate John McCain, who have spent the week sharpening their financial spears.
Washington, Oct 15 : NASA''s Spitzer Space Telescope has deeply observed comet Holmes to find out why it suddenly exploded in 2007.
Washington, Oct 15 : Democratic candidate in the ensuing US presidential poll, Barack Obama’s high-tech campaign has entered into the popular racing video game “Burnout Paradise”.
San Francisco - Intel, the world's dominant maker of the microprocessors that run computers, reported record third quarter revenue of 10.2 billion dollars Tuesday.
