Washington, April 10: Using data received from a instrument sent to space on a NASA launch from Alaska about two years ago, scientists have located the ‘edge of space’, and have confirmed that it begins 118 km above Earth.
The instrument – called the Supra-Thermal Ion Imager – was carried by the JOULE-II rocket on January 19, 2007.
It traveled to an altitude of about 200 kilometers above sea level and collected data for the five minutes it was moving through the “edge of space.”
Washington, April 10: Researchers in New York have moved a step closer towards developing a biological solution to artificial heart pacemakers.
Richard Robinson and his colleagues at Columbia and Stony Brook Universities highlight the fact that the body''s own natural pacemaker, called the sinoatrial (SA) node, is extremely vulnerable to damage during a heart attack, often leaving the patient with a weak, slow or unreliable heartbeat.
Washington, Apr. 10: The United States has incorporated new conditions for Pakistan that it would not lend support to any group or person conspiring against India, before the Obama Administration gives a green signal to the 1.5 billion dollars assistance to it for the next five years.
The Pakistan aid bill named the Pakistan Enduring Assistance and Cooperation Enhancement or the PEACE Act of
2009, was tabled in the US House of Representatives on April 2.
Washington, April 9: Engineers at Oregon State University (OSU) in the US are using an ancient life form called diatom to create one of the newest technologies for solar energy, in systems that may be simple enough to build compared to existing silicon-based solar cells.
These tiny, single-celled marine life forms have existed for at least 100 million years and are the basis for much of the life in the oceans, but they also have rigid shells that can be used to create order in a natural way at the extraordinarily small level of nanotechnology.
Washington, April 9 : Pop princess Britney Spears and her ex husband Kevin Federline have apparently rekindled their `once red-hot sex life'.
According to Star magazine, Spears and Federline have been hitting up hotel suites, dressing rooms and even backstage on the singer's `Circus' tour to do the deed.
"It's like they're newlyweds all over again," Fox News quoted a family insider as telling the mag.
Washington, April 9 : A scene from the first Harry Potter film has topped a new poll of `The Best Moments in Movie History'.
The scene, from 2001''s `Harry Potter and the Philosopher''s Stone', came number one in the poll by the Oreo cookie brand, reports Contactmusic.
It shows the boy wizard discovering platform nine-and-three-quarters at Kings Cross train station in London before setting off for Hogwarts school for the first time.
Washington, April 10: Using data received from a instrument sent to space on a NASA launch from Alaska about two years ago, scientists have located the ‘edge of space’, and have confirmed that it begins 118 km above Earth.
Washington, April 10: Researchers in New York have moved a step closer towards developing a biological solution to artificial heart pacemakers.
Washington, Apr. 10: The United States has incorporated new conditions for Pakistan that it would not lend support to any group or person conspiring against India, before the Obama Administration gives a green signal to the 1.5 billion dollars assistance to it for the next five years.
Washington, April 9: Engineers at Oregon State University (OSU) in the US are using an ancient life form called diatom to create one of the newest technologies for solar energy, in systems that may be simple enough to build compared to existing silicon-based solar cells.
Washington, April 9 : Pop princess Britney Spears and her ex husband Kevin Federline have apparently rekindled their `once red-hot sex life'.
Washington, April 9 : A scene from the first Harry Potter film has topped a new poll of `The Best Moments in Movie History'.
