Washington, September 26 : A Temple University researcher has come up with a simple device that can help improve automobiles’ fuel efficiency by 20 per cent.
Rongjia Tao, Chair of Temple''s Physics Department, has revealed that the small device harnesses a power supply from a vehicle’s battery to create an electric field that thins fuel, so that smaller droplets are injected into the engine.
He says that the process, in turn, leads to more efficient and cleaner combustion than a standard fuel injector.
The researcher says that six months of road testing in a diesel-powered Mercedes-Benz automobile has shown that the device can increase highway fuel from 32mpg to
Washington, September 26 : For people who want their names to float around in space, NASA has created a website that would enable anyone to place their name on the agency’s Glory satellite.
The “Send Your Name Around the Earth” Web site enables everyone to take part in the science mission and place their names in orbit for years to come.
New York, Sept. 26: Alaska Governor and Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin insisted on Thursday that her home state’s proximity to Russia constituted her foreign policy experience.
In a sit down interview with CBS' Katie Couric, Palin indirectly revealed her poor foreign policy credentials by stating "Well, it certainly does because our - our next-door neighbors are foreign countries," referring to Russia and Canada.
Asked if she had held negotiations with Russia, Palin said: "We have trade missions back and forth."
Washington, September 26 : NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has revealed hundreds of small fractures exposed on the Martian surface that billions of years ago directed flows of water through underground Martian sandstone.
Researchers used images from the spacecraft’s High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment, or HiRISE, camera, to detect the fractures.
Images of layered rock deposits at equatorial Martian sites show the clusters of fractures to be a type called deformation bands, caused by stresses below the surface in granular or porous bedrock.
Washington, Sept 26 : It’s not the size of the letters, but spacing between them, which makes it hard for us to read a book from a distance, according to New York University neuroscientists.
The same applies to objects, including letters, animals, and furniture, which can only be recognized only if they are separated by enough space, the "critical spacing." Objects closer than that spacing are "crowded" and cannot be identified.
The critical spacing is a key parameter in the brain''s cortical architecture underlying object recognition, said authors, NYU Professor of Psychology and Neural Science Denis Pelli and Katharine Tillman, an undergraduate researcher in NYU''s College of Arts and Science.
Washington, Sept. 26 : Alaska Governor Sarah Palin has accepted gifts valued at 25,367 dollars from industry executives, municipalities and a cultural center whose board includes officials from some of the largest mining interests in the state, a review of state records shows.
The 41 gifts Palin accepted during her 20 months as Governor includes honorific tributes, expensive artwork and free travel for a family member.
Washington, September 26 : For people who want their names to float around in space, NASA has created a website that would enable anyone to place their name on the agency’s Glory satellite.
New York, Sept. 26: Alaska Governor and Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin insisted on Thursday that her home state’s proximity to Russia constituted her foreign policy experience. 
Alaska Governor Sarah Palin has accepted gifts valued at 25,367 dollars from industry executives, municipalities and a cultural center whose board includes officials from some of the largest mining interests in the state, a review of state records shows.
