London, October 11 : Chinese and American researchers have discovered a new carbon material that is potentially lighter and stronger than conventional carbon fibres.
Huisheng Peng and his colleagues at Shanghai-based Tongji University have found that a carbon vapour made by heating ethylene and paraffin oil can condense into tubes of pure carbon, tens of micrometers wide and up to several centimetres long.
The researchers say that individual tubes have a tensile strength greater than that of conventional carbon fibres, and that they show ductile behaviour just like metal wires when pulled.
Washington, Oct. 11 : Michelle Obama has joined her husband Barack on John McCain''s too-tight-with-terrorists watch list.
A McCain campaign conference call Friday noted that Michelle worked at a Chicago law firm "at the same time as Bernardine Dohrn," a ''60s radical and the wife of ex-terrorist Bill Ayers.
According to the New York daily News, so did 1,800 other people back in 1987. The firm, Sidley Austin, is huge.
New polls suggest that the barrage of attacks featuring Ayers might be backfiring. A Fox News/Opinion Dynamics survey showed Obama''s approval ratings up from 57 to
60 percent.
Washington, October 11 : A University of Wisconsin-Madison expert blames U. S. culture for derailing girls’ ability to excel in mathematics.
Janet Mertz, a professor of oncology, blasted the age-old opinion that females lack intrinsic aptitude needed for maths, insisting that there were many girls who are exceptionally talented.
She also said that American leadership in the mathematical sciences and related fields was at risk because students, both girls and boys, are veering from such a career trajectory.
It was so happening, she added, because of the low respect American culture places on maths.
Detroit - US automakers are looking right into an abyss, and experts note that the US economy is facing its next health problem following the collapse of its financial sector.
After a downward slide that has already lasted years, and with losses worth billions of dollars, General Motors (GM) and Ford appear to be racing ever closer to the precipice.
The financial crisis threatens to cut off the funds of the heavily indebted manufacturers. The stock exchange has already discounted the staggering auto giants, as share prices fell even faster than sales figures.
Eugene (Oregon US), Oct.11 (ANI): Eighty-one percent of Americans surveyed in a national poll agree that the financial crisis "poses a greater threat to the quality of life than does the threat of terrorism."
On a personal level, 41percent of the 802 respondents were very angry about the current financial challenges and 32 percent were moderately angry. Respondents were similarly fearful, worried, and sad.
Only 19 percent felt they could adjust to what happens because of the financial crisis; 51 percent said they had no or only slight influence for controlling the impacts on their lives.
Seventy-eight percent expect to postpone major purchases (large appliances or cars).
The US stocks continued to fall on a sixth consecutive day. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 189.01 points (2.00 percent) and closed at 9,258.10. The Dow Jones has witnessed a downfall of 30 percent so far. The shares of Bank of America dropped to 7 percent after selling shares at a discount. The largest US aluminum producer, Alcoa also witnessed a decline of 12 percent in its stocks.
