China launches Satellite Station Tiangong-1 into orbit!!!

China's Tiangong-1 (Heavenly Palace) module was successfully lofted into orbit by a Long March-2FT1 rocket Thursday evening.


The Tiangong-1 is slated to orbit the Earth for approximately one month until the unmanned Shenzhou-8 spacecraft docks. Subsequent flights to Tiangong-1 will include the Shenzhou-9 and Shenzhou-10, with at least one classified as a manned mission.

Zhang Shancong, deputy chief designer of the Tiangong-1, told Xinhua that the module is equipped with advanced cameras which will snap hyperspectral images of China's farmlands to detect heavy metal pollution, pesticide residue and plant disease. Scientists on the ground are also planning to conduct experiments on photonic crystals in the low-gravity environment offered by the Tiangong-1.

The 8.5-ton Tiangong-1 measures 10.4 meters in length and 3.35 meters in diameter - providing a total of 15 cubic meters for two to three astronauts. The unmanned module is expected to help Beijing prepare for the eventual construction of a space station, which Chinese officials envision as an "international platform" for research and exploration. 

"The Chinese nation has pursued peace since ancient times," said Zhou Jianping, chief designer of China's manned space program.

"[Our] ultimate intention with the space program is to explore space resources and make use of them for mankind's well-being."

Meanwhile, Peter Singer, a senior fellow at the Washington-based Brookings Institution, said that China is clearly evolving into a global power, with its investments in areas like technology and exploration reflecting a new reality.

"It is a natural result of the growth in political and economic power and is to be expected," Singer added.

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Zinc, copper deficiency may lead to spontaneous abortion, finds study!!!

Washington, Sept 29 : A new study from the University of Granada has for the first time confirmed that low blood levels of copper and zinc in pregnant women may be a factor associated with spontaneous abortion..

 The hypothesis had not been confirmed to date, and had never been proven in humans before.

Jesus Joaquín Hijona Elósegui, a researcher at the Department of Pharmacology of the University of Granada, and his colleagues looked at 265 pregnant women, of which 132 suffered a spontaneous miscarriage during that year

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 All study participants underwent an ultrasound examination, and were taken a blood sample for laboratory tests.
 The results proved the existence of differences in maternal plasma concentrations of copper and zinc.
The finding suggests that maternal deficiency of one or both trace elements may be associated with the occurrence of spontaneous abortion, which opens new and interesting lines of research in this area so far unexplored.
The results were published in the Spanish journals Progresos de Obstetricia y Ginecología, in Toko-Ginecología Práctica, and in Obstetrics and Gynaecology

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UARS satellite fell in south Pacific, says NASA

NASA’s given its final verdict on the last resting place of the UARS satellite, which fell back to Earth last Friday.

The Joint Space Operations Center at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California says it entered the atmosphere over the Pacific Ocean at 14.1 degrees south latitude and 189.8 degrees east longitude - a broad, remote ocean area in the southern hemisphere, far from any major land mass.

The debris field should be located between 300 miles and 800 miles northeast of this point, but no possible debris has been sighted

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The satellite broke into pieces during re-entry. While most of it burned up in the atmosphere, some 26 components, weighing a total of about 1,200 pounds, could have survived to reach the Earth's surface.

But variables such as the spacecraft's precise orientation at the moment of breakup and even the solar weather meant that the precise location was hard to predict.

"This was not an easy re-entry to predict because of the natural forces acting on the satellite as its orbit decayed," says said Nick Johnson, NASA’s chief scientist for orbital debris.

"Space-faring nations around the world also were monitoring the satellite’s descent in the last two hours and all the predictions were well within the range estimated by JSpOC."

UARS was launched a little over ten years ago, aboard space shuttle mission STS-48, to study various chemical components of the atmosphere. It ceased its scientific life in 2005.

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Apple to unveil new series of iPhone called iPhone5

San Francisco, Sep 28 –Are you Gadget lover and love buying the latest gadget that had come in market. If so, please make your pocket warm as Apple Inc looks set to introduce its iPhone 5 at a special event next week. The latest gadget feature lots of new program and make your life even easier. The invitation-only event will be held Oct 4 at Apple campus in Cupertino, California, Xinhua reported Tuesday.

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 This could be the first big product launch by the newly installed chief executive officer Tim Cook after he took over the reins of Apple from Steve Jobs in August. According to US media reports, the iPhone 5 is expected to have a larger screen, a higher resolution camera and a faster dual-core A5 chip on which the iPad 2 runs.

Apple is also reported to release a low-cost and contract- free iPhone model bundled with its cloud computing service iCloud.

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Facebook to be shut down from Nov 5,2011!!!!(watch Video)

Dear readers and facebook lovers if you are addicted to facebook you may have to change ur indulgence towards facebook. It was come to know that Facebook has been issued a death threat. Cyber space is abuzz as an anonymous internet hacking group has declared their intention to “destroy” the site by November 5

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Reactions began to pour in as the group announced their intentions in a YouTube video called Operation Facebook, uploaded a few days ago. “Your medium of communication you all so dearly adore will be destroyed,” says the video, adding that the site invades the privacy of all its 750 million users.

An electronically masked voice goes on to invite like-minded people to join the “cause”. The video has had over seven lakh hits already and is still going strong.

While Facebook is yet to issue an official statement reacting to the threat, members say they are certain that the site will take adequate security measures.
To watch the Video please click the link below

                 You tube Video Posted by Anonymous announcing Facebook to be shut
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How 'bionic' bacteria can help fight disease and global warming

London, Sept 22 : Genetically enhanced bacteria may pave the way for creating new synthetic drugs to help fight disease and manufacturing biofuels to combat global warming, US researchers say.

Researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies have created bacteria capable of effectively incorporating "unnatural" amino acids - artificial additions to the 20 naturally occurring amino acids used as biological building blocks - into proteins at multiple sites.

This ability may provide a powerful new tool for the study of biological processes and for engineering bacteria that produce new types of synthetic chemicals, the report said.

An "expanded genetic code" created by the scientists overrides the genetic code of the cells and instructing them to use the artificial amino acids in the construction of proteins

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"This provides us with a lot more room to think about what we can do with protein synthesis," said Lei Wang, assistant professor in Salk's Chemical Biology and Proteomics Laboratory and holder of the Frederick B. Rentschler Developmental Chair.

"It opens up new possibilities, from creating drugs that last longer in the blood stream to manufacturing chemicals in a more environmentally friendly manner."

The study was recently published in the journal Nature Chemical Biology.

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RESULT OF THE ENTRANCE EXAMINATION FOR MBBS PROGRAMME OF THE INSTITUTE OF MEDICINE FOR THE ACADEMIC YEAR 2068/2069 (2011 AD)

Result of IOM Entrance Examination

Merit List Name of Students Roll. No. District 1 Rahul Mishra 3630 Dhanusha 2 Gaurav Kumar Gupta 2014 Parsa 3 Sandip Ojha 4386 Kaski 4 Gaurav Tiwari 2012 Chitwan 5 Rajesh Kumar Kushwaha 3703 Siraha 6 Drishti  Paudel 1950 Pyuthan 7 Amar Suwal 838 Bhaktapur 8 Raj Kumar Jha 3643 Saptari 9 Roshan Kumar Karn 4072 Sarlahi 10 Niraj Sharma 2943 Kanchanpur 11 Prahasan Rai 3289 Salyan 12 Soumya Adhikari 4967 Kathmandu 13 Raju Kumar Shah 3741 Parsa 14 Arisha Poudel 1131 Lamjung 15 Sandesh Shrestha 3364 Makwanpur 16 Keshar Jung Karki 2322 Palpa 17 Prabesh Bikram Singh 3233 Dang 18 Sachin Bhandari 4208 Kathmandu 19 Bidur Prasad Pandit 1434 Kaski 20 Rabin Gautam 3585 Dang 21 Santosh Pathak 4533 Baglung 22 Suraj Kumar Rauniyar 5276 Parsa 23 Rohit Rauniyar 4033 Siraha 24 Samaj Adhikari 4292 Chitwan 25 Anmol Prasad Shrestha 1047 Kathmandu 26 Nishant Bhandari 3071 Ramechhap 27 Ghanashyam Bhatta 2033 Doti 28 Kundan Marasini 2453 Arghakhanchi 29 Sushil Gyawali 5334 Palpa 30 Bipin Ghimire 1598 Morang 31 Suman Maharjan 5168 Kathmandu 32 Suraj Ghimire 5268 Tanahun 33 Pratigya Gyawali 3417 Chitwan 34 Dipendra Kumar Mehata 1903 Dhanusha 35 Ashish Rahul 1193 Bara 36 Neelam Jaishwal 2937 Nawalparasi 37 Bijay Ghimire 1458 Kavre 38 Sheela Dhakal 4756 Gulmi 39 Prakash Bastola 3305 Kaski 40 Arun Chaudhary Kurmi 1148 Nawalparasi 41 Dilip Koju 1860 Bhaktapur 42 Samikasha Pandey 4306 Syangja 43 Shraddha Acharya 4813 Dhang

  

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New genre of plastics that biodegrade right in the soil

Washington, Sept 22 : If you want to use plastic for household purpose now it seems like possible as scientist have discovered biodegradable plastics.A new breed of plastics are starting to gain a foothold in products ranging from teapots to potato chip bags to plastic plant pots that biodegrade right in the soil.

Among them is a new plastic with the crystal-clear clarity, toughness, resistance to heat, and other advantages needed to compete with polycarbonate.

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Made without the worrisome bisphenol A (BPA), it is replacing polycarbonate in baby bottles and beverage bottles.

Another new plastic has potential for fighting global warming, consisting of consisting of 40 percent carbon dioxide, the main greenhouse gas.
The changes have been published in the current edition of Chemical and Engineering News, ACS' weekly newsmagazine.

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Astromers capture rare flaring black hole!!!

WASHINGTON, D.C. : Astronomers captured a flaring black hole, which is extremely uncommon, allowing them to find new details about these rarities, NASA said in a report.

The blazing jets were captured with NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE), on the black hole, called GX 339-4. Scientists have studied these jets to learn more about the extreme environments around black holes, and this particular GX 339-4 had been observed previously

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It lies more than 20,000 light-years away from Earth near the center of our galaxy, and it has a mass at least six times greater than the sun. Like other black holes, it is an ultra-dense collection of matter, with gravity that is so great even light cannot escape. In this case, the black hole is orbited by a companion star that feeds it. Most of the material from the companion star is pulled into the black hole, but some of it is blasted away as a jet flowing at nearly the speed of light.

Through decades of work and investigation, much has been learned about the material feeding black holes, called accretion disks, and the jets themselves through studies using X-rays, gamma rays and radio waves.

However, key measurements of the brightest part of the jets, located at their bases, have been difficult despite the years of work. With the new images, a new window into this missing link through its infrared observations has been offered

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"Imagine what it would be like if our sun were to undergo sudden, random bursts, becoming three times brighter in a matter of hours, and then fading back again," said Poshak Gandhi, a scientist with the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA).

"That's the kind of fury we observed in this jet," added Gandhi, who is lead author of a new study on the results appearing in the Astrophysical Journal Letters. "With WISE's infrared vision, we were able to zoom in on the inner regions near the base of the stellar-mass black hole's jet for the first time and the physics of jets in action."

Observing the jet's variability was possible because of images taken of the same patch of sky over time, a feature of NEOWISE, the asteroid-hunting portion of the WISE mission. WISE data also enabled the team to zoom in on the very compact region around the base of the jet streaming from the black hole. The size of the region is equivalent to the width of a dime seen at the distance of our sun.

"To see bright flaring activity from a black hole you need to be looking at the right place at the right time," said Peter Eisenhardt, the project scientist for WISE at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California. "WISE snapped sensitive infrared pictures every 11 seconds for a year, covering the whole sky, allowing it to catch this rare event."

Huge and erratic fluctuations in the jet activity on timescales ranging from 11 seconds to a few hours were seen as a result of the observations, which are like a dance of infrared colors and show the size of the jet's base varies.

Its radius is approximately 15,000 miles (24,140 kilometers) with dramatic changes by as large as a factor of 10 or more.

The new data also allowed astronomers to make the best measurements yet of the black hole's magnetic field, which is 30,000 times more powerful than the one generated by Earth at its surface. Such a strong field is required for accelerating and channeling the flow of matter into a narrow jet. The WISE data are bringing astronomers closer than ever to understanding how this exotic phenomenon works.

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Google+ opens to the masses no need of invitation!!!

Google's popular social networking platform is now open to the masses - and does not require a specially sent invite to join.

Still, Google wants you to know that it is far from finished revamping and updating its nascent + service, as Mountain View continues to roll out new features in a steady cadence.

"For the past 12 weeks we've been in field trial, and during that time we've listened and learned a great deal," said Google senior VP of engineering Vic Gundotra

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"We're nowhere near done, but with the improvements we've made so far we're ready to move from field trial to beta... [Now], anyone can visit google.com/+, join the project and connect with the people they care about."

To mark the momentous occasion, Google is introducing a number of optimized Hangout features by adding support for mobile devices (currently only Android), "On Air" broadcasts; screen sharing, Sketchpad and Docs

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In addition, Google+ now allows searches - people, posts and relevant web content - within the social networking platform.

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NY Times says iPhone 5 is "weeks away"

It seems like that oft-rumored October unveiling of the next iPhone will actually happen.

The latest report comes from arguably the most esteemed source you could expect - the New York Times. The paper claims to have information from an unnamed source as saying that the iPhone 5 announcement is "just weeks away."

For quite some time now, we've been hearing that Apple was targeting an early October date for the masterful event, and this goes right along with that speculation

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The source also reportedly noted that the phone will have an 8-megapixel camera and an A5 processor. Rumors about NFC mobile payment technology have resurfaced with regard to the next iPhone, but nothing has been confirmed. Apple is usually a bit behind when it comes to mobile technology that it didn't invent (e.g., 3G and 4G) but it seems NFC is a priority for the company

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What also isn't clear is if the phone will actually be called the iPhone 5, or if Apple might surprise everyone and unveil more than one new  iPhone (such as an iPhone 4S or 'iPhone nano').

When a new iPhone comes along, you can almost feel the other mobile players shaking in their boots. As Ticonderoga Securities analyst Brian White put it, the one who should feel the most worried is RIM, which recently unveiled its new smartphones running on Blackberry 7 software.

White said he expects the new iPhone to absolutely "steamroll" the latest slate of Blackberries, barely even giving RIM a shot at substantial holiday sales.

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High intake of calcium increases risk for prostate cancer in men

Washington, Sept 17: A new study has found that high intake of calcium causes prostate cancer among African-American men who are genetically good absorbers of the mineral.

"High dietary intake of calcium has long been linked to prostate cancer but the explanation for this observation has been elusive," said Gary G. Schwartz, Ph.D., associate professor of cancer biology, urology, and public health sciences at Wake Forest Baptist and co-author on the study

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Schwartz and colleagues from the Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern California (USC) and the Cancer Prevention Institute of California studied 783 African-American men living in the San Francisco and Los Angeles areas, 533 of whom were diagnosed with prostate cancer.

Their study found that men who reported the highest intake of calcium were two times more likely to have localized and advanced prostate cancer than those who reported the lowest.

Men with a genotype associated with poor calcium absorption were 59 percent less likely to have been diagnosed with advanced prostate cancer than men who genetically were the best absorbers of calcium

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And, among men with calcium intake below the median, genetically poor absorbers had a 50 percent decreased risk of having advanced prostate cancer than the best absorbers.

The finding is available in the online issue of the Journal of Bone and Mineral Research.

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New laser can detect roadside bombs!!!

Washington, Sep 18 : Lasers may pick out roadside bombs and help in identifying improvised explosive devices (IEDs), often used by terrorists, new research says. Marcos Dantus, chemistry professor at the Michigan State University and founder of BioPhotonic Solutions, a high-tech company, have devised the new laser, the journal Applied Physics Letters reports.

The detection of IEDs is extremely challenging because the environment injects a large number of chemical compounds that mask the select few molecules that one is trying to detect, said Dantus, according to a Michigan statement

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Dantus' latest laser can make these distinctions even for quantities as small as a fraction of a billionth of a gram.
 The laser beam combines short pulses that kick the molecules and make them vibrate, as well as long pulses that are used to "listen" and identify the different "chords".
 The chords include different vibrational frequencies that uniquely identify every molecule, much like a fingerprint. The high-sensitivity laser can work with cameras and allows users to scan questionable areas from a safe distance

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."The laser and the method we've developed were originally intended for microscopes, but we were able to adapt and broaden its use to demonstrate its effectiveness for standoff detection of explosives," said Dantus.

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'Subconscious' mode that will give smartphones better battery life

Washington, Sept 16: Ever felt frustrated when your cell phone battery is dying or dead? Well, researchers at the University of Michigan have developed a new technology that would extend the battery life.

They said that a new ‘subconscious mode’ for smartphones and other WiFi-enabled mobile devices could extend battery life by as much as 54 percent for users

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University of Michigan computer science and engineering professor Kang Shin and doctoral student Xinyu Zhang found that even during power saving mode ‘idle listening’ occurs, where the phones are still on alert and do consume high energy.

But the new approach is believed to make smartphones perform this idle listening more efficiently. It’s called E-MiLi, which stands for Energy-Minimizing Idle Listening

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Shin and Zhang conducted an extensive trace-based analysis of real WiFi networks to see how much time smartphones spend on idle listening.

They discovered that, depending on the amount of traffic in the network, devices in power-saving modes spend 60 to 80 percent of their time in idle listening.

“My phone isn’t sending or receiving anything right now,” Shin said.

“But it’s listening to see if data is coming in so I can receive it right away. This idle listening often consumes as much power as actively sending and receiving messages all day,” he added.

E-MiLi works slows down the WiFi card’s clock by up to 1/16 its normal frequency, but jolts it back to full speed when the phone notices information coming in.

“We came up with a clever idea. Usually, messages come with a header, and we thought the phone could be enabled to detect this, as you can recognize that someone is calling your name even if you’re 90 percent asleep,” he added.

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Good News for chocolate lover!!! Its now official Chocolate is 'as good as exercise'

Are you indulged to chocolate and worried about your health?? If you are forget your tension and now eat chocolate as you can.  This is because some good news for chocolate lover has just arrived. It is the news that chocoholics have been waiting for: Chocolate is as good as exercise, a new study has claimed.

Scientists at Wayne State University in the US found that small amounts of dark chocolate may improve health in a similar way to exercise

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The researchers who focused on the mitochondria – the tiny powerhouses in cells that generate energy – discovered that a plant compound found in chocolate, called epicatechin, appeared to stimulate the same muscle response as vigorous activity, the Daily Telegraph reported.

"Mitochondria produce energy which is used by the cells in the body. More mitochondria mean more energy is produced the more work can be performed," said Dr Moh Malek, who led the research on mice.

"Aerobic exercise, such as running or cycling, is known to increase the number of mitochondria in muscle cells," Dr Malek said.

"Our study has found that epicatechin seems to bring about the same response -- particularly in the heart and skeletal muscles."

For their study, published in the Journal of Physiology, the researchers gave a specific type of epicatechin from cocoa to the laboratory mice twice a day for 15 days.

At the same time, the animals underwent 30 minutes of treadmill training each day.

It was found that mice only fed epicatechin had the same exercise performance as those running on the treadmill.

The findings would lead to better ways of combating age-related muscle wasting, the scientists hoped.

Dr Malek said: The number of mitochondria decreases in skeletal muscle as we age, and this affects us physically in terms of both muscle energy production and endurance.

"Applying what we know about epicatechin's ability to boost mitochondria numbers may provide an approach to reduce the effects of muscle ageing."

According to the researchers, middle-aged mice who both exercised and ate epicatechin showed an even greater benefit

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"It appears epicatechin treatment combined with exercised could be a viable means to offset muscle ageing," said Dr Malek.

"At the moment it would be a leap of faith to say the same effects would be seen in humans. But it is something we hope to identify in future studies," he added.

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