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 that he had signed a memorandum of understanding with state-owned Chinese company CSC Jinling Shipyard to build the replica of Titanic, heralded as the world's largest, most luxurious and safest ocean liner before it set sail in April 1912.

"It will be every bit as luxurious as the original Titanic, but of course it will have state-of-the-art 21st-century technology and the latest navigation and safety systems," he told the media.

More than 1,500 people died when the Titanic hit an iceberg on its maiden voyage from Southampton to New York in April 1912.

New design of Titanic

Palmer said the new ship was a tribute to those workers who built the original luxury liner.

"These people produced work that is still marvelled at more than 100 years later and we want that spirit to go on for another 100 years. It is going to be designed so it won't sink. It will be designed as a modern ship with all the technology to ensure that doesn't happen," Palmer added.

Old Titanic

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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 5

The material can be shaped in a process similar to the 'injection moulding', used for plastic which could lead to a rounder, more organic shape for the new handset.

The leak was reported in Korean IT News, which said, 'In the meantime, iPhone5 is likely to take liquid metal, an alloy of zirconium, titanium, nickel, copper and so forth having an outer surface smooth like liquid.'

Korean IT News predicted that the handset would launch in June at Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference. The design is not finalised - the images here are concept designs made by Ciccarese Design for MacRumors. 

Others, though, predict that the new iPhone will launch in October - a year after the last iPhone update, the 4S. 

Analyst Gene Munster of Piper Jaffray said that component shortages would lead to the expected summer launch of the new handset being delayed to October.

The news caused Apple's share price to dip by 3.4% according to a report in Bloomberg News.

Apple's iPhone 4S is looking increasingly dated as manufacturers such as HTC bring out phones such as the One X armed with hi-tech components such as quad-core processors.

Sony's Xperia S has a screen resolution far higher than the current iPhone.
Samsung is also said to be on the verge of launching its eagerly awaited Galaxy S3 handset. 

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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 cycles after old hairs fell out.

When stem cells are grown into tissues or organs, they usually need to be extracted from embryos, but Tsuji and his researchers found hair follicles can be grown with adult stem cells, the study said.

Baldness can now be cured

“Our current study thus demonstrates the potential for not only hair regeneration therapy but also the realization of bioengineered organ replacement using adult somatic stem cells,” it said.

The combination of the new and existing technologies is expected to improve treatment for baldness, possibly allowing people to use their own cells for implants that will give them their hair back.

“We would like to start clinical research within three to five years, so that an actual treatment to general patients can start within a decade,” said researcher Koh-ei Toyoshima.

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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 passenger pods are designed to reach phenomenal speeds of up to 4,000mph (6,500kph), using far less energy than conventional transport methods.

Design of Evacuated Tube Transport

That would allow passengers to travel from New York to Los Angeles in just 45 minutes, from New Yorkto Chinain just two hours, or all the way round the world in six hours.

The designers behind ETT believe that their system can achieve fifty times more transportation per kWh that electric cars or trains by cutting out air or rolling resistance. 

They envisage that it would work as a form of Personal Rapid Transit, and would accordingly be networked like motorways with car-sized capsules automatically routed like internet traffic.

And they claim that it would be cheap to build, at just a quarter the cost of motorways and a tenth of the cost of high-speed railway.

ETT is cost effectice and can just be built on quarter of teh cost of motor

Remarkably, they also say that, despite the incredible speeds that ETT is designed to reach, passengers would only be subjected to minimal G forces, although the physics behind that claim are unclear.

The trade name Evacuated Tube Transport was coined by mechanical engineer Daryl Oster in the early Nineties and in 1997 he was given a patent for the technology.

Since then he has managed to build a consortium of licensees to help him develop the system.

However, despite bidding for several public infrastructure projects since then, most recently in Korea, the technology has not yet taken off. 

Source: Daily mail

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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 Surgery

The head of the NICH, Jamal Raza, said the abnormal birth was the result of a genetic disease which would affect only one in a million or more babies.

'It was strange that apparently an abnormal baby with six legs was as normal as other children,' he said.

Before surgeons could operate they said they had to work out which of the limbs belonged to the boy and which to his twin.

Baby Before surgery 

Doctors examined MRI, blood tests and CT scan reports before deciding to perform the surgery. The operation lasted eight-hours and was performed in stages.

The baby had been in an intensive care unit ward since he was born last week to the wife of an X-ray technician.

Imran Shaikh, the baby's father who lives in Sukkur, said he was grateful his son was treated.

'We are a poor family. I am thankful to the government and doctors for helping us successful operating my baby,' he said.

Shaikh and his wife live in Sukkur, around 280 miles north of where his son is being cared for. His wife is reported to be recovering well from the birth and in a good state of health. 

His wife - who is also his cousin - has been unable to travel because she had a caesarean section delivery.

He said they were planning on naming their son Umar Farooq.

The Sindh provincial health department said they were examining if he needed any further treatment to live a normal life.

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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 and gleaming with about 100 scantily clad blondes and brunettes parading around in exotic G-strings and lingerie’, the Daily Mail reported.

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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 reported.

An examination of the hen's carcass showed the fertilized egg had developed within the hen's reproductive system but stayed inside the hen's body until it hatched, Yapa said.

The examination showed the hen died of internal wounds.

The story has made headlines in Sri Lanka, the BBC said, with one Sri Lankan newspaper carrying the headline: "The chicken came first; not the egg."

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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 phone.
Any phone related to the Olympics would be expected to include the facility for contactless payment as Visa, global sponsor and partner of the Paralympic Games, also sponsor the Games with Samsung.The two companies announced a partnership in April last year.

So called leaked image of Samsung Galaxy  SIII

Rumours suggest that there could be a slight increase to the size of the screen size, enlarging Galaxy's SII 4.3" screen to 4.6" and using HD in 1080p.
The device could have an improved camera, possibly up to 16 megapixels, and wireless charging has also been mentioned as a possibility.
 The invitation for the event reads simply "Come and meet the next Galaxy", and gives details of the location of the next "Samsung Unpacked" event.
 A number of leaked images of Samsung Galaxy SIII phone have emerged online, but none of the images have been confirmed as genuine.
 Samsung's Galaxy SII has been the most popular Android phone, and a lot is being expected from its successor Galaxy SIII at the event.

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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 factual errors.

Some have been very entertaining indeed: the edit which depicted Microsoft founder Bill Gates as a devil, for example, or the one which - some would say accurately - described Bernie Madoff as 'a very clever asshole who stole shitloads of money'.

But, says the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA), which has carried out a survey of 1,284 public relations professionals; it's making their lives very difficult.

When respondents tried to engage editors through Wikipedia's 'Talk' pages to request factual corrections, 12 percent said it took weeks to get a response - and a quarter never heard back at all.

Only 35 percent actually got any response, either through the Talk pages or by directly editing of a client's entry.

Of those who were familiar with the process of editing Wikipedia entries, 23 percent said making changes was 'near impossible', and 29 percent said their interactions with Wikipedia editors were 'never productive'.

The PRSA says it's also discovered that PR people barely understand Wikipedia's rules for editing.

"It does not surprise me that so many Wikipedia entries contain factual errors. What is surprising, however, is that 25 percent of survey respondents indicated they are not familiar with the Wikipedia articles for their company or clients," says Marcia DiStaso, co-chair of PRSA's National Research Committee and an assistant professor  at Penn State University.

"At some point most, if not all, companies will determine they need to change something in their Wikipedia entries. Without clear, consistent rules from Wikipedia regarding how factual corrections can be made this will be a very difficult learning process for public relations professionals."

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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 (KPCB) and New Enterprise Associates (NEA) for the venture.

"Higher education is ripe for innovation: it is too expensive and limited to a few," says KPCB partner and new Coursera board member John Doerr.

"Coursera is unique in partnering with the best universities to offer free, global access to the world's best teachers and courses. The potential is profound opportunities for personal - and economic - growth and development."

Stanford University

Founded by Stanford Computer Science professors Daphne Koller and Andrew Ng, Coursera has already clocked jup more than a million enrolments.

"We see a future where world-renowned universities serve millions instead of thousands, allowing many more people to live their dreams," says Koller.

Unlike MIT, which recently announced it was to offer free electronics courses,  Coursera will do a lot more than simply post lectures online. There'll be a personalized 'trajectory' for each student, quizzes, discussions and auto-graded exercises.

"Students learn best not by passively watching video, but by thinking, practicing and doing," says Ng. "Our education technology is developed around these concepts, and helps busy students quickly master material."

Coursera says it plans to launch another 30 courses over the next six months; there's more information here.

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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 previously been confirmed, there will be an edition of the platform exclusively for tablet devices.

The most distinct aspect of Windows 8 is what's known as the "Metro UI," which allows users to have complete customization on their home page, including widgets, RSS readers, weather information, date/time, etc.

In addition, since this is such a revolutionary new platform, Microsoft wants to scrap out all remnants of the "old-school" look and feel. Instead of a Start bar, hovering your mouse over that corner of the screen will allow you to swap between the Metro UI and the traditional desktop. For the mobile version of Windows 8, the Metro UI will be the default interface.

The inclusion of only three versions may seem like a step back. Windows 7 was available in six SKUs - Home Basic, Starter Edition, Home Premium, Professional, Enterprise, and Ultimate.

It looks like Microsoft will be keeping things simple and elegant this time.

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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 material semiconducting so it can be used in electronic applications," says professor of mechanical engineering Junhong Chen. "Our major contribution in this study was achieved through a chemical modification of graphene."

The new material, graphene monoxide or GMO, will be easier to scale up than graphene, says the team. And, like silicon, it's semiconducting, so that electrical current can be controlled.

"Now all three characteristics of electrical conductivity - conducting, insulating and semiconducting - are found in the carbon family, offering needed compatibility for use in future electronics," says the team.

The team created GMO by accident, while conducting research into the behavior of a hybrid nanomaterial consisting of carbon nanotubes and tin oxide nanoparticles.

In one experiment, they heated graphene oxide in a vacuum to reduce oxygen. Instead of being destroyed, however, the carbon and oxygen atoms in the layers of GO became aligned, transforming themselves into the 'ordered', semiconducting GMO - a carbon oxide that doesn't exist in nature. At different high temperatures, the team actually produced four new versions of the material.

Because GMO is formed in single sheets, the team says the material could have applications in products that involve surface catalysis. The scientists are now exploring its use in the anode parts of lithium-ion batteries, hoping to make them more efficient.

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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 an intensive care unit ward. 

Baby born with six legs 

Raza added that they were planning to operate on the boy and were considering asking for help from foreign experts with more experience in the rare disease, believed to afflict just one in one million babies. 

He tried to clarify that the baby did not have six legs – he had two legs and the other four belonged to the other twin.

'Operating on such a baby is not an easy task as proper assessments need to be done first,' he said. 'We need to figure out whether the baby has his twin’s limbs or his own. We also need to consider how much the internal organs have developed as the latter could complicate matters and decrease the baby’s chances of surviving.'

Baby boy born with six legs to be names Umar Farooq

Speaking to the news site, the baby's father, Imran Shaikh, made a plea for help from the government and charities.

‘I can’t afford to visit Karachi and get treatment for my baby,’ said the X-ray technician, who earns the equivalent of $66-a-month. ‘I appeal to philanthropists and the government to come forward for the treatment.’

Shaikh and his wife of four years live in Sukkur, around 280 miles north of where his son is being cared for. His wife is reported to be recovering well from the birth and in a good state of health. 

His wife - who is also his cousin - has been unable to travel because she had a caesarean section delivery.

He said they were planning on naming their son Umar Farooq.

Muhammad Qaisar, a doctor at Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences in Islamabad, told allvoices.com he was certain the boy could be successfully operated on. ‘It is perhaps [the] first child in the history of Pakistan having six legs,’ he said.

‘The case will also be a test for doctors and we hope for the better,” he said.

Since Shaikh made his public plea for help, the Sindh Governor has come forward and directed officials concerned to make sure the child receives all the medical care he needs, Pakistani-based The Nation reported. 

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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," says Licheng Sun, professor of organic chemistry at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH).

"This is clearly a world record, and a breakthrough regarding a molecular catalyzer in artificial photosynthesis."

The result, he says, could make it possible in the future to create large-scale facilities for producing hydrogen in the Sahara, or combine the technique with traditional solar cells.

The team plans to continue working to try and drive down the price of the technology.

"I'm convinced that it will be possible in ten years to produce technology based on this type of research that is sufficiently cheap to compete with carbon-based fuels," says Sun.

"This explains why Barack Obama is investing billions of dollars in this type of research."

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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 father, Dino Viale, told computer game blog Kotaku.

'He thought, "How can I create something she can enjoy?''

He then downloaded GameMaker, a software that lets people write their own games easily. 

He decided to create a maze game in which players move Quacky, a duck character that Dylan has drawn since he was in elementary school.

Dylan Viale

As Quacky, the goal is to navigate through a series of mazes and find a Golden Egg. To ensure his grandmother could play, he decided the sounds would be key.

'Sound was the greatest tool for [Dylan's] grandmother to navigate through the game,' Dino said. 'He had to figure out how to associate each move through the maze with sound cues for whether you were doing something correctly or incorrectly.'

The game uses a maze similar to pacman, with each object having a different sounds. When players hit a wall, for instance, they hear a low noise, while jewels produce a ‘cha ching’ sound.

The game also features giant spiders - if player go the wrong way down a passage, they start hearing spider noises.

However, after testing the game with his grandmother, he found it needed more work to ensure she did not go backwards - so he added a feature dropping a boulder behind the duck as it moved around the maze, 'If you tried to go backwards, it would make the negative sound of hitting a boulder or a wall,' Dino said. 

'Once that happened, [Sherry] was really able to fly through the maze quite quickly,' he said.

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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 diseases

If it works it could be revolutionary for understanding devastating neurological diseases such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s, and even shedding light into how we think, and make decisions.

Leading the project is Professor Henry Markram based in Switzerland, who will be working with scientists from across Europe including the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute at Cambridge.

They hope to complete it within 12 years. He said: ‘The complexity of the brain, with its billions of interconnected neurons, makes it hard for neuroscientists to truly understand how it works.

‘Simulating it will make it much easier – allowing them to manipulate and measure any aspect of the brain.’

Human Brain

Housed at a facility in Dusseldorf in Germany, the ‘brain’ will feature thousands of three-dimensional images built around a semi-circular ‘cockpit’ so scientists can virtually ‘fly’ around different areas and watch how they communicate with each other.

It aims to integrate all the neuroscience research being carried out all over the world – an estimated 60,000 scientific papers every year - into one platform.

The project has received some funding from the EU and has been shortlisted for a 1 billion euro (£825million) EU grant which will be decided next month.

When complete it could be used to test new drugs, which could dramatically shorten the time required for licencing them than human trials, and pave the way for more intelligent robots and computers.

But Prof Markram said: ‘This will, when successful, help two billion people annually who suffer from some type of brain impairment.

They have also simulated part of a rat’s brain using a computer. But the human brain is a totally different proposition.

Our brains have 100 billion neurons.  Each one performs billions of ‘calculations’ per second – roughly similar to a desktop computer.

So the brain computer will need to be able to do a billion billion calculations which will require the output of a nuclear power station.

Finding a way to power the supercomputer will be one of the researchers’ major challenges.

The brain is still largely an unknown quantity for researchers and unravelling its mysteries - which have evolved over millions of years - is widely considered the final frontier of science.

Richard Walker, who works with Professor Markram, said: ‘Our brains consume tiny amounts of energy but they last for 90 or more years.

‘At the moment we cannot even afford to run the biggest computers we could build, so if we can find out how the brain works, it could bring huge advances.’

Disorders of the brain, from depression and mental illness to the diseases of old age such as Alzheimer’s – which affects 800,000 people in Britain– are also a growing problem. 

David Cameron recently pledged £66million to fund research into the ‘national crisis’ of dementia.

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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 Mars exploration missions and pathways," says John Grunsfeld, associate administrator for NASA's Science Mission Directorate.

"As part of this process, community involvement, including international, is essential for charting the new agency-wide strategy for our future Mars exploration efforts."

Scientists and technicians are being asked to submit ideas and abstracts online, wit the most promising to be presented during a workshop in June hosted by the Lunar and Planetary Institute in Houston.

"Receiving input from our community is vital to energize the planning process," says Doug McCuistion, director of the Mars Exploration Program.

"We'll integrate inputs to ensure the next steps for the Mars Exploration Program will support science, as well as longer-term human exploration and technology goals."

Several Mars missions are already in place. In August, the Mars Science Laboratory, Curiosity, will land on the planet's surface with the aim of discovering whether Mars has ever been able to support life - and whether there may be life present even now.

In 2013, NASA will launch the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN)orbiter, the first mission devoted to understanding the Martian upper atmosphere. After the 12th grade student from Nepal Police school gave his ides to create city in space called gagan pur and was selected second among all the contestants. Can any Nepalese this time will send his abstract as NASA is asking. Don’t miss the Chance.

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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 Research and the Universityof Grenoble, were forced to rely on satellite images, to study the region - because much of the Karakoram range is inaccessible.

They compared observations made in 1999 and 2008 and found a marginal mass increase.

They estimated the glaciers had gained between 0.11 and 0.22 metres of ice each year.

The researchers are unsure why the region bucks the global trend - but they know from other studies in other parts of the world that in very cold regions, like the Karakoram range, climate change can cause extra precipitation, which then freezes and adds to ice mass.

Lead reseacher Julie Gardelle told BBC News: 'We don't really know the reason. Right now we believe that it could be due to a very specific regional climate over Karakoram because there have been meteorological measurements showing increased winter precipitation; but that's just a guess at this stage.'

Stephan Harrison, associate professor in quaternary science at the UK's University of Exeter, said the new research had showed there is 'considerable variability' in the global climate and in how glaciers respond to it.

Area of Glaceries are increasing in Karakoram range

Harrison said much of their mass gain also comes from avalanches from the high mountains surrounding them.

'Overall, the impact of melting glaciers such as these on sea level rise is known to be negligible, but it does mean that there is much more to be learnt about exactly how the world's glaciers will respond to continued global warming.'

The findings provide welcome respite at a time when glaciers across the globe are shrinking at a rapid rate.

A study of the neighbouring Himalayas in 2011 found the rate of ice loss in glaciers - which provide fresh water for around 1.3 billion people - has doubled since the 1980s

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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 read.
According to Sky News, the group claims to be protesting about proposals to tighten Internet surveillance regulations.

GCHQ is British Government's Communications Headquarters based in Cheltenham.
It is a highly secretive organization, which works closely with both the Security Service (MI5) and the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6).
According to the report, last weekend, followers of the same organisation successfully shut down the website of the UK Home Office for a number of hours, to protest against the UK's extradition deal with the United States. 

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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 Moon

He urged all political parties to maintain the momentum and consensus to bring the peace process and the drafting of the new constitution to a successful and timely conclusion.
The Secretary-General urged all parties to ensure that transitional justice mechanisms currently being debated are established in compliance with international law, prioritizing victims' rights, and making sure that they operate with full independence.
The Secretary-General reaffirmed the continued support of the United Nations to Nepal's peace process. Hope We Nepalese gain lead the peace process to the conclusion and deliver the new constitution which will be loved by most of the Nepalese.

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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 Moon

He urged all political parties to maintain the momentum and consensus to bring the peace process and the drafting of the new constitution to a successful and timely conclusion.
The Secretary-General urged all parties to ensure that transitional justice mechanisms currently being debated are established in compliance with international law, prioritizing victims' rights, and making sure that they operate with full independence.
The Secretary-General reaffirmed the continued support of the United Nations to Nepal's peace process. Hope We Nepalese gain lead the peace process to the conclusion and deliver the new constitution which will be loved by most of the Nepalese.

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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 the two unmanned Viking probes.

Biologist Joseph Miller, of the University of Southern California, said: "I'm 99 percent sure there's life there. To paraphrase an old saying, if it looks like a microbe and acts like a microbe - then it probably is a microbe."

During the 1976 mission, nutrients were added to the Martian soil. It would have a similar effect to putting plant food on a garden. The soil gave off a gas, believed to be mainly carbon dioxide.

Experts dismissed the possibility that the gas came from bugs. But new tests indicate it did. Unfortunately, the soil was heated in the original tests, killing any microbes, the newspaper added.

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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 two pints of beer before answering questions, while the other half abstained.

The participants were asked to answer a range of questions, such as finding a word to fit a particular pattern; for example, blue, cottage, Swiss [cheese].

The results of the test were quite interesting to say the least. Participants who consumed two pints of beer finished their problems in a cool 12 seconds, compared to non-drinkers who required 15.5 seconds.

"We found at 0.07 blood alcohol, people were worse at working memory tasks, but they were better at creative problem-solving tasks," psychologist Jennifer Wiley explained.

"We have this assumption, that being able to focus on one part of a problem or having a lot of expertise is better for problem solving," she continued. "But that’s not necessarily true. Innovation may happen when people are not so focused. Sometimes it’s good to be distracted."

The study participants who drank beer also solved 40% more of the problems posed to them compared to non-drinkers. "Sometimes the really creative stuff comes out when you’re having a glass of wine over dinner, or when you’re taking a shower," Wiley added.

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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 Graham Cluley, an analyst with Web security firm Sophos, recently posted a blog stating that they had discovered fake versions of the game on unofficial app stores. The fake games which contains a “Trojan horse” virus, in a in a file called Andr/KongFu-L, appears to be a fully functional version of the game. It installs a virus on the user’s smartphone or tablet, and then the code tries to install more malware that makes the phone or tablet computer vulnerable to cybercriminals.

“It feels like we have to keep reminding Android users to be on their guard against malware risks, and to be very careful, especially when downloading applications from unofficial Android markets,” Cluley said.

Rovio also warned Android users about this fake infected version of the game in a post on the official blog, and urged them to download the new title from their official store.

If you don’t have the new Angry Birds Space game on your Android smartphone yet, then you can download the original version of the game from the Rovio store here.

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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 Area

Designed by Sussex-based yacht designer John Shuttleworth, the Adastra is so high-tech, it can even be controlled remotely at the touch of an iPad... as long as you don't get any further away than 50 metres. The yacht's high-concept, space-age look is no gimmick. The shape has been specially developed to cut through waves as it glides across the high seas.

 Adastra was built in Zhuhai, China for a couple based in Hong Kong, at the cost of a cool $15 million

Described as ‘one of the world's most amazing super yachts’, Adastra, unveiled yesterday in China, took five years to build, is 42.5 metres long, 16 metres wide and weighs 52 tons.

Her enormous petrol tank coupled with her dynamic sailing efficiency allows the Adastra to travel up to 4,000 miles without refuelling - the same distance from London to New York.

‘It takes the power trimaran concept further than has ever been attempted before,’ Mr Shuttleworth told Boat International. 

Master Bedroom

‘The challenge of turning this concept into a viable luxury yacht has taken us to further research and to develop new thinking on stability and comfort at sea for this type of craft.’

It is the result of five years of planning and construction, and rivals anything owned by yacht-lover Roman Abramovich.

The hull of the Adastra is built from glass and Kevlar and can house nine guests and six crewmen. The deck saloon has a panoramic view while the open cockpit has sofas on both sides. The open deck running aft also has a door that hinges out to create a bathing platform.

Boat International magazine said Adastra 'could spell the future for efficient long range cruising'. 

Bathroom

The yacht has an integrated ship monitoring system.

Adastra is powered by one Caterpillar C18 engine of 1150hp at 2300 rpm and has 2 Yanmar 110hp @ 3200 rpm outrigger engines.

Adastra's 16-metre beam features a saloon area on the main deck with a lounge area, dining table, and navigation station.

The deck at the rear of the yacht has a sofa and bar area to port and a dining area to starboard.

The main helm station, which has seating for two, is positioned in a raised pilot house situated between the rear deck and the saloon area and forms part of the cross beam structure. 

The Adastra is the latest in a long line of super yachts that compete to be the most high tech.

Last year Chelsea Football Club owner Roman Abramovich bought a £300 million superyacht with two swimming pools, two helipads, a gym, hair salon, dancefloor and submarine.

Kitchen

Eclipse has plenty of room to entertain friends, with 15 double bedroom cabins all equipped with their own luxury bathrooms and 6ft wide television screens. Parties on the 533ft yacht are guaranteed to stay private, as it’s fitted with an ‘anti-paparazzi shield’ that fires a laser beam of light at cameras to ruin photographs.

The 20,000 sq ft interior also houses a sauna, steam bath and whirlpool to help guests wind down.

It was commissioned by a billionaire businessman who already owns two islands off Indonesia

Designers with Yatch

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