Titanic II to be built and start its service in 2016!!

Have you heard about the terrible accident that occurs 100 years ago when luxurious ship of that time Titanic hit the iceberg and lots of VIPs lost their lives? The second edition of the ship will be recreated. According to news, An Australian mining magnate today unveiled plans to build Titanic II, which may make its maiden voyage from England to New York in 2016; a century after the luxury ship sank on its first trans-Atlantic voyage.Clive Palmer Billionaire businessman Clive Palmer said...

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Apple's new iPhone 5 could be ultraslim thanks to hi-tech 'liquid metal'

Apple's new iPhone 5 could be housed in a little-known hi-tech alloy known as 'liquid metal' - which feels like glass to the touch.The alloy, a mix of titanium, nickel, copper and zirconium among other metals, is tough, light and scratch resistant, and said to feel as smooth as glass.But analysts fear that shortages of hi-tech components could mean the device is delayed until October.Proposed Design of Apple iphone 5The material can be shaped in a process similar to the 'injection moulding', used...

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Baldness can be cured using stem cells

Are you bald and having trouble facing people? If yes your worries are over as Japanese researchers have successfully grown hair on hairless mice by implanting follicles created from stem cells, they announced Wednesday, sparking new hopes of a cure for baldness.Led by Professor Takashi Tsuji from Tokyo University of Science, the team bioengineered hair follicles and transplanted them into the skin of hairless mice.The creatures eventually grew hair, which continued regenerating in normal growth...

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Round the world in just six hours: Vacuum tubes could be used for super-fast public transport

Imagine hopping on the Tube in London on your way to work in the morning - and getting off near your office in New York City just three-quarters of an hour later.If the designers of one revolutionary idea for the public transport of the future are right, that's just what we could be doing one day.Evacuated Tube Transport (ETT) is an airless, frictionless form of transport which, its designers say, is safer, cheaper and quieter than trains or aeroplanes.Using airless vacuum tubes, six-seat, 183kg...

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Doctors remove four extra limbs from baby who was born with

A baby boy born with six legs has had a successful operation to remove his four extra limbs, doctors said today.The youngster from Karachi in Pakistanwas believed to have had a parasitic twin, which had not developed properly in the womb, resulting in the extra legs.A team of five doctors had fought to save the boy's life at the National Institute of Child Health in Karachi.Baby Boy after SurgeryThe head of the NICH, Jamal Raza, said the abnormal birth was the result of a genetic disease which...

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Robotic prostitutes will change the sex industry

Two Kiwi researchers have envisioned what the sex industry would be like in the year 2050, when the prostitutes would be replaced by robots. Ian Yeoman and Michelle Mars of the Victoria ManagementSchool in Wellington, New Zealandbelieve that this science-fiction-style vision could become reality within 40 years. They focussed on Amsterdam’s Red Light District and envisaged how the most popular brothel in the city will work.They call this imaginary brothel the Yub-Yum, and describe it as ‘modern...

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Hen in Sri Lanka gives birth to chick without egg

The Mystery now has been solved as hens come before egg. A hen in Sri Lanka gave birth to a chick without an egg, veterinary officials said. Instead of being laid by the hen and incubated in the nest, the egg was incubated inside the hen for 21 days and then the chick hatched inside the mother. The chick is normally formed and healthy, veterinarians say, although the mother hen died. The government veterinary officer in the area, P.R. Yapa, said he had never seen anything like it before, the BBC...

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Samsung Galaxy SIII to be unveiled as 'official Olympics phone' in London

Samsung's Galaxy SIII will be unveiled as the official phone of the London Olympics, according to online reports. The reports also suggest that the device, to be launched at London's Earl's Court on May 3, will also include several colours and a ceramic body, The Telegraph reports.However, Samsung has officially refused to confirm whether the announcement is related to a much-anticipated forthcoming phone or to a range of new devices.Samsung has already confirmed that it will make an Olympics-themed...

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Companies struggle to correct faulty Wikipedia entries

What do you usually do to find information about something you don’t know? Almost all who have a bit knowledge about internet will find all those information from wikipedia.  If you do so don’t really trust on the information provided in wikepedia. Recent research has suggested that 6 out of 10 informations given in wikepedia contain some errors. Well, bang goes the lazy journalist's version of research: a survey has found that a whacking 60 percent of Wikipedia articles about companies contain...

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Top universities to offer free online courses

Are you interested to get degrees from top universities of United Dates but can’t afford? If that’s the problem now your worries have been addressed. Web-based courses from Princeton, Stanford, the University of Michigan and the University of Pennsylvaniaare now available for free from start-up Coursera.The company's also signed up Stanford - where it was founded - and the Universityof California at Berkeley.It's raised $16 million in venture capital funding from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers...

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Windows 8 will come in three flavors

Here are some more details about Microsoft's next-generation operating system. First up, Microsoft is now officially confirming that the name of the platform will indeed be Windows 8. Those days of coming up with something cool like "XP" or "Vista" are apparently over.In addition, the software giant noted that Windows 8 will be available in three editions. There will be just standard, vanilla Windows 8 as well as Windows 8 Pro, for advanced users and high-end business accounts.In addition, as has...

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New semiconductor synthesized from graphene

Scientists and engineers at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee have discovered a completely new carbon-based material, synthesized from graphene, which could mark a big step towards faster electronics. While transistors based on graphene are widely expected to take over from current devices, they're expensive to mass-produce. Another problem is that, until now, graphene-related materials existed only as conductors or insulators."A major drive in the graphene research community is to make the...

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Doctors battle to save baby born with SIX legs

Pakistani doctors are battling the odds to save a newborn baby born with a rare genetic condition that has left him with six legs. The one-week-old boy is believed to be one of parasitic twins. His conjoined twin was born prematurely and incompletely developed, which resulted in the second child having the extra legs, said Jamal Raza, director of the National Institute of Child Health in Karachi, to News.com.Doctors at the institute are fighting to save the newborn, who remains in...

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Artificial photosynthesis hits record speed

Swedish researchers say they've built a molecular catalyzer that can oxidize water to oxygen very quickly - reaching speeds not far off those of natural photosynthesis.While artificial photosynthesis has been under development for 30 years, it's the first time that such a conversion rate has been reached - about 300 turnovers per second, compared with 100 to 400 for natural photosynthesis."Speed has been the main problem, the bottleneck, when it comes to creating perfect artificial photosynthesis,"...

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The video game that even BLIND people can play... and it was designed by a ten-year-old for his disabled grandmother

A 10-year-old Californian schoolboy has created a computer game for his blind grandmother so they can play together.Dylan Viale, a fifth-grader at Hidden Valley Elementary in Martinez, created the game called Quacky’s Quest as part of a school science project.He then decided to enter the game in his school science fair - and won first place. He now hopes to become a game designer when he leaves school.'Dylan wanted to figure out a way that he could share his love for video games with her,' Dylan's...

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Scientists to build ' Artificial human brain'; useful to cure brain disease

The human brain’s power could rival any machine. And now scientists are trying to build one using the world’s most powerful computer.It is intended to combine all the information so far uncovered about its mysterious workings - and replicate them on a screen, right down to the level of individual cells and molecules. Supercomputer will simulate the entire mind and will help fight against brain diseasesIf it works it could be revolutionary for understanding devastating neurological diseases such...

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NASA calls for ideas from around the world for future Mars missions

NASA's Mars Program Planning Group (MPPG) is starting to research in its next Mars mission and is looking for help from scientists and engineers worldwide. The aim is to find a relatively low-cost way of sending a robotic mission to Mars in 2018 or 2020. It should help pave the way for sending humans to Mars in the 2030s. However, the effort will be hampered by the 21 percent budget cut to planetary science included in President Obama's 2013 budget."We're moving quickly to develop options for future...

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Global warming: Scientists discover glaciers in Asian mountain range are actually getting bigger

Photos taken by a French satellite show glaciers in a mountain range west of the Himalayashave grown during the last decade.The growing glaciers were found in the Karakoram range, which spans the borders between Pakistan, Indiaand China and is home to the world's second highest peak, K2.The startling find has baffled scientists and comes at a time when glaciers in other parts of the region, and across the world, are shrinking.French scientists from the National Centre for Scientific...

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Anonymous plans to hack UK intelligence agency's website

Have you heard about the group of some computer genius called Anonymous ?If not now this group is going to do something that haven’t had happened before.Notorious Internet hacking group Anonymous issued a warning that they had planned to take down the website of the UK intelligence agency, Government Communications Headquarters (GHCQ)."#Anonymous Next DDOS attack is on GCHQ.gov.uk Sat 14th April...WE MUST CONTINUE TO FIGHT," a message posted on twitter from one of the accounts associated with Anonymous...

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Ban Ki Moon commends Nepal's peace process

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Saturday praised the progress in rehabilitating former Maoist combatants in Nepaland integrating them into the national army, voicing the hope that the process will be carried out smoothly. Ban acknowledged the role of political parties, the Government, and Nepal's Army, as well as Maoist commanders and combatants in the efficient transfer of weapons and maintaining security in cantonments.Ban Ki MoonHe urged all political parties to maintain the momentum and...

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Ban Ki Moon commends Nepal's peace process

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Saturday praised the progress in rehabilitating former Maoist combatants in Nepaland integrating them into the national army, voicing the hope that the process will be carried out smoothly. Ban acknowledged the role of political parties, the Government, and Nepal's Army, as well as Maoist commanders and combatants in the efficient transfer of weapons and maintaining security in cantonments.Ban Ki MoonHe urged all political parties to maintain the momentum and...

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Life on Mars found but destroyed by mistake

Bungling NASA scientists are believed to have found tiny live microbes on Mars - but mistakenly killed them by boiling them alive, a media report said Saturday.Two spacecraft that landed on the Red Planet in 1976 are now thought to have detected microbes in Martian soil. But scientists at the time failed to spot the signs of life - and cooked the bugs at 160 degrees Centigrade during experiments, The Sun reported.Now an international team has used modern techniques to re-examine data collected by...

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Research:Drinking beer makes men more intelligent !!

It is common knowledge that alcohol damage judgement - if consumed in sufficient quantity. But are you fond of drinking beer but afraid of being alcoholic? If yes just don’t get worry as  a recent study published by the University of Illinois in Chicago claims that drinking only a few beers may, in fact, make men more intelligent. The researchers who conducted the study devised a game for participants comprised of word association.Half the participants in the study drank...

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Beware of the fake Android version of Angry Birds Space

Are you Crazy about games and love to download the newest version of  Angry Birds Space?If Yes then you have to be wary as  the latest version of the popular Angry Birds game, Angry Bird Space  which was released on March 22 for download  was downloaded over 10 million times in just three days. Taking advantage of its overwhelming popularity, Android malware authors have come up with a fake version of the Angry Birds Space containing “Trojan horse” virus. Security experts...

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The incredible first pictures inside the £15-million superyacht(Adastra superyacht ) that can be controlled by an iPad

The Adastra superyacht is a floating pleasure palace that would fit as comfortably in outer space as it would on the open sea.And as these amazing new pictures show, SuperYatch is equipped to entertain a billionaire with even the highest of standards.She is the the new pet of Hong Kong-based shipping magnate Anto Marden, whose uses for her may include - among other things - gliding between the two tropical islands he already owns off the coast of Indonesia.Main deck AreaDesigned by Sussex-based...

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