2014年8月17日 星期日

2014-08-18 India Science

  The Slatest   
India and math: It doesn't add up  Times of India
An infinite crowd of mathematicians enters a bar. The first one orders a pint, the second one a half-pint, the third one a quarter pint ... "I understand," says the bartender — and pours two pints. Clever, huh? If you got the joke, odds are you are a math-phile who ...

Mathematics talent is not cultivated as much in India: Manjul Bhargava   Economic Times
Photo courtesy of Rubik's   The Slatest
Math's Fields Medal Winner Manjul Bhargava Also Enjoys Sanskrit Poetry and ...   South Asia Mail
mydigitalfc.com   
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  The Independent   
Mysterious Shifting Lights Observed Near Huge Black Hole  Huffington Post
Illustration of a supermassive black hole. The regions around such objects shine brightly in X-ray light, most of which comes from a little-understood structure called the corona, shown here as the white light at the base of a jet. (What coronas actually look like ...

NASA telescope sees rare blurring of black hole light   Economic Times
Black Holes: Kings Of The Universe   The Inquisitr
Telescope sees rare blurring of black hole light: NASA   Financial Express
The Daily Star   
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  Gamepur   
It Will Take 5 Billion Years to Explore All the Planets in the Video Game, No ...  Chinatopix
Sean Murray, co-founder of No Man's Sky, a randomly generated universe exploration game from Hello Games, explained the vastness of the game during Gamescom 2014. Developers have given a rough estimate on how long it will take to visit each planet ...

PS4 Timed Exclusive No Man's Sky: "It Will Take 5 Billion Years To See Every ...   Gamepur
Gamescom 2014: The Sun Will Burn Out Before You See All of No Man's Sky   IGN
You'd Most Probably, Definitely be Dead Before you Saw the Same Thing Twice ...   n3rdabl3
GamingBolt   
Attack of the Fanboy   
PlayStation LifeStyle   
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  IANS   
Skull in 1400-year-old tomb may be European  Shanghai Daily (subscription)
THE remains of a human skull found in a 1,400-year-old tomb in China possibly belonged to a man of European origin, an initial investigation by scientists revealed yesterday. The skull was found in the M1401 tomb in Guyuan City in northwest China's ...

European man's remains found in ancient Chinese tomb   Zee News

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Ecologists cheer Modi's 'zero defect, zero effect' slogan  Times of India
NEW DELHI: At a time when India's "right to grow" pitch caused concern among environmentalists sceptical about New Delhi's commitment to cut greenhouse gas emissions, Prime Minister Narendra Modi's "zero defect and zero effect" remark on Friday came ...


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  Economic Times   
Self-organising swarm of 1000 robots is largest ever  Economic Times
WASHINGTON: Harvard scientists, including one of Indian-origin, have created the world's largest robotic swarm - 1,024 little bots standing on pin-like legs - that can assemble into predetermined shapes. Researchers at Harvard University demonstrated the ...

1000 Kilobots Make Patterns   iProgrammer
Now, self organising 'smart' robots   Oman Daily Observer
'Flashmob' robots swarm themselves into shape   Space Daily

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  The Nation   
'Man' on moon mystery solved  The Nation
An eerie video claiming to show an 'alien' figure walking on the moon went viral earlier this week. Theories ranged from shadows cast by a nearby boulder to an ancient alien statue placed on the lunar surface. Now Nasa has announced the figure is simply ...

Do Aliens Have a UFO Base On The Moon? [VIDEO]   International Business Times UK
Alien on the moon is just dust: Nasa scientist   Times of India

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  Zee News   
Ocean life may help bring rain, snow  Zee News
New York: Giving a new spin to how rain occurs, scientists believe a lot of the organic matter in clouds is released into the air by breaking waves in the ocean. "Ocean waves release microscopic bits of organic matter that could be important in bringing rain and ...

What kind of life could live in the clouds?   The Japan Times

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  Island Crisis News   
Be Advised: Plants Talk To Each Other On The Genetic Level  Island Crisis News
A new study has shown that a plant which is a parasite of another communicates with the latter by exchanging pieces of RNA. acoustic_sensors-plant. Whether or not plants hear and talk to us, they sure talk among themselves – some of them, at least.
A new study provides crucial information for controlling parasitic species   News Tonight Africa
Parasitic plants have RNA inspired lingo   Northern Voices Online
Plants Use Newly Discovered Form of Language to Communicate?   Viral Global News
Counsel & Heal   
Tech Times   
Capital OTC   
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  Daily Mail   
Myth busted: Magpies don't steal shiny objects  gulfnews.com
London: The myth of the “thieving magpie”, which pervades European folklore, may not be true after all. A British study says magpies do not steal trinkets and are scared of shiny objects. It is widely believed that magpies have a compulsive urge to steal ...

Magpies don't steal shiny objects: study   Business Standard
Magpies 'don't steal shiny objects'   BBC News
Study clears magpies of theft   Delhi Daily News
Telegraph.co.uk   
Metro   
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