Dubai: Iran has hanged a man it said was an agent for Israeli intelligence agency Mossad whom it convicted of killing one of its nuclear scientists in 2010, Iranian state media reported on Tuesday. Twenty-four year old Majid Jamali Fashi was hanged at Tehran's Evin Prison after being sentenced to death in August last year for the murder of Massoud Ali-Mohammadi, Iran's state news agency quoted the central prosecutor's office...
02:14 PM, May 15, 2012
Washington: Happiness can be fleeting, but by hanging on to those good times and not comparing your personal experiences to those of others can help you remain happy for longer, a new study has suggested. Researchers in the US carried out a happiness survey on a group of 481 participants who had identified a recent positive change in their lives that had made them happier. Six weeks after that, the...
04:58 PM, May 08, 2012
London: Scientists who scanned the brains of men convicted of murder, rape and violent assaults have found the strongest evidence yet that psychopaths have structural abnormalities in their brains. The researchers, based at King's College London's Institute of Psychiatry, said the differences in psychopaths' brains mark them out even from other violent criminals with anti-social personality disorders (ASPD), and from healthy non-offenders. Nigel Blackwood, who led the study, said the...
02:39 AM, May 08, 2012
London: British scientists claim to be for the first time growing human body parts at a laboratory at the University College London, which they say could soon make organ donation a thing of the past. A team, led by Prof Alexander Seifalian of the varsity's Department of Nanotechnology and Regenerative Medicine, claims it's actually focussing on growing replacement organs and body parts to order, using a patient's own cells. "This...
03:39 AM, May 07, 2012
Lahore: Disgraced Pakistani nuclear scientist A Q Khan has expressed his willingness to contest elections while suggesting the formation of a government of technocrats because politicians have failed to deliver good governance. Khan, 76, made the remarks while addressing students at the Punjab University on Wednesday. Khan has been accused of running proliferation network and providing nuclear technology to Iran, North Korea and others. He advised PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif...
01:49 PM, May 03, 2012
New Delhi: Kolkata based scientist Partha Sarthy Roy has been released from jail. He was in jail for the last ten days after police picked him up during an agitation against slum eviction. Roy, who was arrested during an anti-eviction movement at Nonadanga on the EM Bypass earlier this month, was on Tuesday granted bail by the Alipore court in Kolkata. Roy was arrested along with 68 others including the...
12:33 PM, Apr 18, 2012
Baruipur: A retired scientist and his lawyer-daughter have filed a complaint with the police in Baruipur in South 24-Parganas district, alleging assault and attempt at molestation by the owner of a house for the purchase of which they had entered into an agreement. The FIR, filed at Baruipur police station by Aparash Bhattacharya and his daughter Aditi Bhattacharya, alleged that house owner Gautam Pal beat them up and tried to...
06:04 PM, Apr 17, 2012
New Delhi: Perturbed over the arrest of an eminent scientist who opposed eviction of slum dwellers in Kolkata, a group of scientists has written a letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh decrying West Bengal government's action and sought his immediate intervention. A number of scientists from across the country and some parts of the world have written to Singh voicing concern on the "crack down on human rights activists and...
06:36 PM, Apr 16, 2012
Ailing Pakistani scientist Mohammed Khaleel Chishty was released on bail from Ajmer jail in a two-decade-old murder case. ...
11:05 PM, Apr 11, 2012
Ajmer: Ailing Pakistani scientist Mohammed Khalil Chishty was on Wednesday released on bail from Ajmer jail in a two-decade-old murder case and said he was hopeful that Sarabjit Singh and other prisoners languishing in each other's country would get justice. Freed after over 14-month incarceration, 80-year-old Chishty said he was thankful to Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari for taking up his case with India. "Zardari made efforts for me, I...
07:52 PM, Apr 11, 2012
Washington: Computer scientists, taking inspiration from the human face, are exploring whether machines can detect lies. In a study of 40 videotaped conversations, an automated system that analysed eye movements correctly identified whether subjects were lying or telling the truth 82.5 per cent of the time. That's a better accuracy rate than expert human interrogators typically achieve in lie-detection experiments, said Ifeoma Nwogu, research assistant professor at University of Buffalo's...
04:56 PM, Mar 27, 2012
Jerusalem: All 80,000 items in Albert Einstein's archives, including personal correspondence with half a dozen lovers and a poignant postcard to his ailing mother, are going online. The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, which owns the Einstein collection, is slowly uploading high resolution photographs of scientific papers, letters on social issues including nuclear disarmament and the Arab-Israeli conflict, and other texts. Archivists said today's launch of the online repository will give...
09:00 PM, Mar 19, 2012
It took two years of research for the Kashmir scientists to clone the goat. ...
10:10 PM, Mar 17, 2012
Washington: Scientists in the US say they have developed a computer which can respond to students' emotions and boredom. A team from University of Notre Dame, the University of Memphis and Massachusetts Institute of Technology has in fact come up with what they claim is the "emotion-sensing" computer software that models and responds to students' cognitive and emotional states, including frustration and boredom. The new technology, that matches the interaction...
04:14 PM, Mar 03, 2012
New Delhi: Putting moral pressure on the government, a Law Ministry report has suggested that former ISRO chief Madhavan Nair should have been heard before an order blacklisting him along with three of his colleagues for their alleged involvement in the Antrix-Devas deal was issued. The report accessed by CNN-IBN says that a formal chargesheet should have been served to the four scientists blacklisted by the government. Law Ministry sources...
06:40 PM, Mar 01, 2012
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