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New military robot to fuel itself by gobbling up dead bodies

Washington, July 15 (ANI): A Maryland company under contract to the Pentagon is working on a steam-powered robot that would fuel itself by gobbling up whatever organic material it can find – grass, wood, old furniture, or even dead bodies.

Robotic Technology Inc.’s Energetically Autonomous Tactical Robot (EATR) “can find, ingest, and extract energy from biomass [...]

Award-winning device to revolutionise treatment of hand injuries

Washington, July 8 (ANI): Bioengineering students at Rice University have invented a device to measure intrinsic hand muscle strength, called PRIME, which could revolutionise the diagnosis and treatment of hand injuries [...]

Carnivorous clock that tells time by killing bugs!

London, July 3 (ANI): Two artists in London have come up with a bizarre invention in the form of a ‘carnivorous digital clock’, which catches bugs, then dissolves their bodies to create electrolytes to power itself.

A strip of sticky flypaper moves in a loop over the surface of the unit, much like a treadmill or [...]

New instrument may detect groundwater deep inside Mars

Washington, June 25 (ANI): A team of Boulder (US) scientists and engineers has tested a new instrument prototype that might be used to detect groundwater deep inside Mars.

Known as the Mars Time Domain Electromagnetic Sounder (MTDEM), the instrument uses induction to generate electrical currents in the ground, whose secondary magnetic fields are in turn detected [...]

Novel target for migraine prevention identified

Washington, Apr 29 (ANI): Researchers have found a potential target for developing new treatment for acute migraine attacks.

The new research by Addex Pharmaceuticals showed that targeting glutamate receptor ‘mGluR5′, the most common neurotransmitter in the brain, could prevent migraines.

The research team suggest that mGluR5 could play a role in the “migraine circuit,” a positive feedback [...]

Final assault against LTTE chief Prabhakaran begins

Colombo, Apr.21 (ANI): The Sri Lankan Army has begun its final assault on the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in Puthumattalam on Tuesday after Army’s deadline for surrender of LTTE Chief Velupillai Prabhakaran ended at noon.

Puthumattalam is the last LTTE sand bund to be captured by Sri Lanka Army.

Sri Lankan Defence Secretary, Gotbaya [...]

Fed’s Yellen says U.S. economy not out of the woods

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Tentative signs of improvement in recent economic data do not mean the U.S. economy is out of the woods, Janet Yellen, president of the San Francisco Federal Reserve, said on Thursday.
Yellen, a voting member of the policy-setting Federal Open Market Committee in 2009, said the carnage of the credit market bust [...]

Aircel to expand India operations; planning $5 billion investments in 3 years

As per the reports by Business Standard, Aircel Cellular is working on plans to expand its presence in India, proposing to put in a $5 billion investment over the next three-year period.
Initiating its operations in Mumbai on Friday, the GSM service provider – with a 70 percent stake held by Malaysian telecom giant [...]

RNC releases new report to close the loop on Palin clothes expenditure

Washington, Apr 9 (ANI): In a bid to cut all the loose threads in the Sarah Palin clothing saga during US Presidential elections, the Republican National Committee filed an amended report late last month, which shows [...]

India not pushed on ties with Pakistan, consulted on Af-Pak: Holbrooke

New Delhi, April 8 (IANS) With India a ‘vital leader’ in the region, the US Wednesday maintained it was not pressuring New Delhi on its ties with Islamabad and would like to see a greater role for this country in Afghanistan, even as it said India had been consulted on President Barrack Obama’s new Af-Pak [...]

India consulted on Obama’s Af-Pak strategy: Holbrooke

New Delhi, April 8 (IANS) India had been kept in the loop while US President Barrack Obama’s new Af-Pak strategy on the war against terror was being formulated and would continue to be consulted in future, a top American diplomat said Wednesday.
‘We consulted the Indian government very closely,’ said Richard Holbrooke, the US special envoy [...]

Assam blasts compel government to review security

New Delhi, April 6 (IANS) India’s security establishment was Monday reviewing security measures ahead of the general elections that begin next week following three blasts in quick succession in Assam, including in the state’s main city Guwahati, in which seven people were killed.
The powerful blasts in Guwahati, Dhekiajuli and in Karbi Anglong came at a [...]

Latest from Amar Singh’s CD library: Dutt says I ’stung’ UPA Minister

A day after the Supreme Court put his political debut on hold by refusing to suspend his conviction and sentence under the Arms Act in the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts case, actor Sanjay Dutt claimed he had secretly taped a Union Minister threatening him not to contest for the Samajwadi Party.
While Dutt didn’t name the [...]

How the body clock controls metabolism and ageing

Washington, Mar 20 (ANI): In a study on mice, a team of scientists have found how the biological circadian clock mechanism in animals corresponds with processes that control aging and metabolism. [...]

Is Obama going to take Black Americans to the promised land?

Chicago, Feb. 23 (ANI): With Barack Obama having completed over a month as the United States 44th and first Black American President, a debate has surfaced over whether he can lead Black Americans to the promised land.

In a debate at the [...]

‘Burping’ astrophysical jets recreated by plasma experiment

London, Feb 21 (ANI): A plasma experiment by scientists has recreated jets of charged particles for the first time in a laboratory, which could shed light on the behaviour of ‘burping’ astrophysical jets from stars and galaxies.