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Scientists says real-time tracking devices should be commercially available within five years to let farmers know exactly where their herds are grazing.
A research team from the University of New England has conducted a trial in western New South Wales using GPS cattle collars.
It showed steers only used 10 to 20 per cent of the paddock [...]

A group that trains GPs in central and northern Victoria says an industry shortage will be addressed by a Federal Government push to train more doctors.
Yesterday, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd announced a $632 million plan to boost GP numbers over the next decade.
But training group Beyond Medical Education says the effects of the plan will [...]

Doctors say the Federal Government’s initiative to send more GPs to rural and regional areas is welcome but warns that the plan is not a quick fix solution.
The government has announced it will spend $632 million over the next decade to fund hundreds of extra training places for medical students in remote areas.
Dr Peter Maguire [...]

A Tasmanian adventurer is to recreate what many consider to be the greatest open boat voyage in maritime history.
Don McIntyre and three others will follow in the footsteps of Captain William Bligh who was cast adrift in the Pacific after the mutiny on the Bounty.
Captain Bligh sailed a small wooden boat 4,000 nautical miles from [...]

Sydney, March 10 (ANI): Researchers at the University of South Australia have developed mobile phone software that can offer X-ray vision to see what’s on the other side of the building in front of you.
Christian Sandor said that the application works by using the phone’’s camera, reports the Sydney Morning Herald.
He said that users can [...]

Chandigarh, Sept 17 (ANI): In a bid to provide quick, hassle free and reasonably charged mode of transportation, a dial-an-auto service equipped with GPS navigation system has been launched for the first time in Chandigarh.

The neat and clean pink coloured motor rickshaws, known as Tuk Tuk, are changing the way people travel in the city.

The [...]

London, Sept 16 (ANI): A robot that can leap over walls and obstacles more than 7.5metres has been developed.

The shoebox-sized robot named the Precision Urban Hopper uses four wheels to move around and is guided by the GPS.

It uses a piston-actuated “leg” to jump over high walls and fences, reports The BBC.

According to researchers, the [...]

London, September 15 (ANI): In a new research, a scientist has found that prehistoric man navigated his way across England using a crude version of a satellite navigation system, which was based on stone circle markers.

According to a report in the Telegraph, the research, by historian and writer Tom Brooks, shows that Britain’s Stone Age [...]

Washington, September 7 (ANI): NASA astronauts aboard the US space shuttle Discovery have said that the smell of space, which is regarded as the final frontier, is strong, metallic and unique.

“There is one smell up here that is really unique though and that is the smell, we just call it ‘the smell of space’,” said [...]

Washington, August 29 (ANI): A new research by scientists from the University of Arizona (UA) in Tucson has determined that some slow-moving faults may help protect some regions of Italy and other parts of the world against destructive earthquakes.

Until now, geologists thought when the crack between two pieces of the Earth’s crust was at a [...]

New Delhi, Aug 27 (ANI): The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) today accorded its approval for the continuation of the project “Polar Science; Expedition to Antarctica” during the XI Five Year Plan period at an estimated cost of Rs.230.01 crore.

The [...]

Washington, Aug 21(ANI): It’s true: When people are lost, they walk in circles. That’s the conclusion of a new research which has also found the reason behind it.

Scientists in the Multisensory Perception and Action Group at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics in Tübingen, led by Jan Souman and Marc Ernst, have presented the [...]

London, August 19 (ANI): A musician has GPS technology to thank for a reunion with his 300,000-pound violin that he forgot in a New York cab.

Hahn-Bin left the 18th century instrument in a yellow taxi while heading back home from a concert.

The absent-minded 22-year-old later realised his loss after reaching his Chinatown apartment and called [...]

Washington, August 15 (ANI): NASA scientists have placed about a dozen monitoring ’spiderbots’ inside the volcanic crater in Mount St Helens in the US, which are high-tech devices that can detect an impending eruption.

Mount St. Helens is one of the most active volcanoes in the US. Its most devastating [...]

Lahore, July 6 (ANI): British Foreign Secretary David Miliband has said that the Pakistan Army and the ISI should stop their double game of supporting militants against India and then clamping down when pressurised to act.

Asked whether the Pakistan Army [...]

Washington, June 30 (ANI): Space and robotics technology have been combined to develop an advanced Precision Forestry Positioning System, which allows more efficient forest planning and harvesting.

Invented by researchers at the Institute of [...]

Nokia N97 – N97 – Nokia N97 India – Nokia N97 Features – Nokia N97 Specifications – Nokia N97 Price in India
Nokia is gearing up for N97 launch – probably it’s biggest launch in the recent times. Please find below Specifications and Features of N97:
Nokia N97 Features and Specifications :
# Sliding QWERTY keypad and touchscreen [...]

London, May 30 (ANI): Hundreds of students of a top Japanese university are getting sat-nav iPhones, so that it’s easier to track them down in case they skip classes.

Usually, students fake attendance by getting friends to answer proxy roll-call or hand in signed attendance cards.

But now, Aoyama Gakuin University in Tokyo has found a solution [...]

Washington, May 27 (ANI): Ever imagined reading a book or watching a movie in your car, while your vehicle guides itself through the traffic and navigates on its own? Well, thanks to a new technology called ‘autonomous vehicle navigation’, this could soon be a reality.

If this technology comes into action, it may also see fleets [...]

London, May 22 (ANI): A new study has shown that use of simple blood test and improving communication skills would help doctors prescribe fewer antibiotics to patients.

The joint trial from Cardiff University found that GPs in primary care who underwent training in advanced communications skills and those who made [...]