Russia reduced gas flows to Europe via Ukraine on Monday, a measure it said was to stop its neighbor siphoning off fuel but which Kiev said could jeopardize supplies to European countries including Germany.
Countries in southern and eastern Europe reported new falls in gas supplies from Russia while Serbia and Bulgaria urged industry to scale [...]
After nearly a decade of uninterrupted boom, the Indian information technology industry finds the road ahead bumpy as 2008 draws to a close, with the global meltdown and financial turmoil in the US and other rich countries catching the otherwise resilient sector off-guard.
With no signs of early revival, even the top firms - TCS, Infosys [...]
Astronomers have used the ESO’s (European Southern Observatory’s) Very Large Telescope, along with a double natural “magnifying glass” known as the “Einstein Cross”, to scrutinize the inner parts of the disc around a supermassive black hole 10 billion light years away.
The “Einstein Cross”, a famous cosmic mirage, is a cross-shaped configuration consisting of [...]
Toshiba has developed a new lithium-ion battery that can charge to 90 percent capacity in just 5 minutes.
According to a report in ENN (Environmental News Network), the life cycle of the new battery, which is called SCiB (or Super Charge Ion Battery), is more than 10 years even if it is rapidly charged and discharged [...]
Britain is set to launch its maiden moon mission to study the phenomenon of mysterious moonquakes, weeks after India’s spacecraft Chandrayaan-1 successfully entered the lunar orbit.
The 100-million-pound unmanned mission ‘MoonLITE’ would aim to understand the cause of mysterious quakes that vibrate through the lunar rock and put it into the satellite’s orbit [...]
The creator of the giant space telescope at the Jodrell Bank Observatory in the UK has disclosed after 50 years that the telescope was secretly modified to track incoming Soviet nuclear missiles during the Cold War.
According to a report in Telegraph, the Lovell Telescope at Jodrell Bank was set up to provide a ‘four-minute warning’ [...]
A new species of the deadly Ebola virus has been identified by American and Ugandan scientists.
The new virus, called Bundibugyo ebolavirus, caused an outbreak in western Uganda in 2007. It is genetically distinct from all other known Ebola virus species, differing by more than 30 percent at the genetic level, said [...]
A crew of astronaut plumbers and electricians arrived at the International Space Station aboard NASA’s shuttle Endeavour on Sunday to add an extra kitchen, bathroom and new bedrooms to the orbiting laboratory.
Under the deft control of shuttle commander Chris Ferguson, Endeavour docked with the space station at about 5:01 p.m. EST (2101 GMT) as the [...]
Canadian researchers say they’ve narrowed down the likely owner of a dinosaur nest, abandoned on a river’s edge 77 million years ago, adding the discovery offers a unique look at dinosaur reproduction and the evolution of birds.
Scientists from the University of Calgary and Alberta’s Royal Tyrrell Museum say the nest unearthed in northern Montana in [...]
A new study led by an Indian origin scientist has found that the unique properties of a new material can be used to create new devices that can be implanted into the human body- including blood glucose sensors for diabetics and artificial hemo-dialysis membranes that can scrub impurities from the blood.
The breakthrough by the researchers [...]