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Jammu and Kashmir will have first wind power project in the state and a site in Reasi’s mountainous district has been found suitable for it.

The process to grant the project has been begun. It will come up at Bidda site in Reasi district that has high wind potential, officials of Jammu and Kashmir Energy Development department (JAKEDA) said.

To study the wind potential and feasibility of such projects in the state, two wind masts were installed at Ijara in Baramulla district and Bidda, officials said.

A Chinese expedition team to Antarctica has finished installing and testing the largest optical telescope in the snow-capped region, experts said.

The AST3-1 Antarctic Survey Telescope was installed by researchers from China’s 28th Antarctic scientific expedition team, Xinhua reported.

The AST3-1 is China’s first domestically-produced automatic unmanned telescope, capable of conducting surveys of supernova and other extra-solar bodies.
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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.

India on Thursday entered the elite club of nations possessing the technological know-how to produce an Inter-Continental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) as it successfully test fired the nuclear capable Agni-V missile from the Wheeler Island off the Odisha Coast.

A study into how the Pacific Ocean leaks into the Indian Ocean has revealed details which researchers say could improve climate predictions.

This so-called Tasman leakage in the south of Australia is the second-largest link between the Pacific and Indian oceans after the Indonesian through-flow to the country’s north, according to an international team led by University of New South Wales.

Search giant Google’s popular email service, Gmail, went down across the world for over 45 minutes, potentially affecting 350 million users.

Many Gmail users received error messages on their accounts, meaning they could not send or receive email or access their inboxes on Tuesday.

Google acknowledged the problem and tweeted that they had received several reports of errors, The Telegraph reports.

The firm said it was ‘investigating reports of an issue’ with Gmail, and issued a statement as the service was being restored.

Space shuttle Discovery has one last mission to complete.

At daybreak yesterday, the oldest of NASA’s retired shuttle fleet will leave its home at Kennedy Space Centre for the final time, riding on top a modified jumbo jet. Its destination: the Smithsonian Institution’s hangar outside Washington.

The plane and jet will make a farewell flight over Cape Canaveral before heading north. The pair also will swoop over the nation’s capital, including the National Mall, before landing in Virginia.

Internet search giant Google is advertising for hiring a new Doodler, a graphic designer or an illustrator, to work on special designs that celebrate historic figures and events on its home page.

The job demands a person with a ‘sense of humor, love of all things historical and imaginative artistry.’

‘First impressions matter,’ Google said in a message to Doodlers.

Google Inc (GOOG.O) has been fined $25,000 for impeding a U.S. investigation into the Web search leader’s data collection for its Street View project, which allows users to see street level images when they map a location.

The Federal Communications Commission imposed the fine late on Friday, saying Google had collected personal information without permission and had then deliberately not cooperated with the FCC’s investigation.

Scientists have determined precisely how leaves tell stems to grow when a plant is caught in a shady place.

The findings could lead to high-yield crops that gather light more efficiently and make better use of farmland.

Plants are extremely competitive, especially when it comes to getting their fair share of sunlight.

A plant’s primary weapon in this fight is the ability to grow towards the light, getting just the amount it needs and shadowing its competition.

The surface of Mars comprised a number of lava flows and other signs of effusive volcanism.

Although models suggest that explosive volcanism should also have produced extensive deposits, direct evidence for large-scale explosive volcanism on Mars has been scarce.

A new investigation by Briony Horgan and James F. Bell III of the mineralogy of dark regions covering more than ten million square kilometers in the northern hemisphere of Mars has revealed that these regions are dominantly composed of glass.

Range preparation for the maiden test of India’s indigenously developed nuclear capable ‘Agni-V’ ballistic missile with a strike range of over 5,000 km is “near complete” and the trial is likely to be held from Wheeler Island off Odisha coast this Wednesday.

“If everything goes as per schedule, the trial is likely to be taken up on Wednesday from the launch pad-4 of the Integrated Test Range (ITR),” a senior ITR scientist said.

If the trial is successful, it will club India into a select band of countries that possess the technology for ICBM. Reuters

Range preparation for the maiden test of India’s indigenously developed nuclear capable ‘Agni-V’ ballistic missile with a strike range of over 5,000 km is “near complete” and the trial is likely to be held from Wheeler Island off Odisha coast this Wednesday.

“If everything goes as per schedule, the trial is likely to be taken up on Wednesday from the launch pad-4 of the Integrated Test Range (ITR),” a senior ITR scientist said.

If the trial is successful, it will club India into a select band of countries that possess the technology for ICBM. Reuters

Social networking giant Facebook is reportedly acquiring the team of Indian-origin developers behind customer-loyalty application Tagtile.

“We’re happy to confirm that Tagtile’s founders are joining Facebook, and that Facebook is acquiring substantially all of the company’s assets,” Facebook said in an emailed statement to Bloomberg.

The co-founders of San Francisco-based Tagtile are Abheek Anand and Soham Mazumdar.

According to The Los Angeles Times, Tagtile said on its website that Facebook was ‘acquiring substantially all of our assets.’

In what could be an answer to fuel scarcity, a team of engineers from the California Polytechnic State University has designed a vehicle that does a whopping 584mpg.

Called the Lamina – it was introduced at this year’s Shell Eco-Marathon held in Houston, Texas.

However, it has a drawback as there’s only room for the driver, the Daily Mail reported.

The Lamina was entered in the event’s prototype class.

It’s powered by a modified Honda generator and can hit 12mph flat out. Its low fuel consumption is partly achieved by coasting.

Scientists have for the first time captured images of auroras above the giant ice planet Uranus, finding further evidence of just how peculiar a world that distant planet is.

Detected by means of carefully scheduled observations from the Hubble Space Telescope, the newly witnessed Uranian light show consisted of short-lived, faint, glowing dots – a world of difference from the colourful curtains of light that often ring Earth’s poles.

European and North American black scavenger flies – also called dung flies as their larvae develop in the faeces of vertebrates and thus break them down – belong to the same species, but they strongly differ in mating behaviour and SSD.

North American dung fly females are larger than males, the usual dimorphism in insects.

European dung flies, however, are more unusual with males being considerably larger than females.

In a new study, scientists have created a computer program to break down the formula behind some of cinema’s most enduring lines – from Dirty Harry’s “Do you feel lucky, punk?” to Casablanca’s “Here’s looking at you, kid.”

In its current form the algorithm may not be a huge help for budding screenwriters looking for their first hit, but its creators believe that in the future it may well be able to come out with a few classic quotes, or at least a successful advertising slogan, on its own.

Global warming may initially make the grass greener, but not for long, a new study has revealed.

According to the new research results, plants may thrive in the early stages of a warming environment but then begin to deteriorate quickly.

“We were really surprised by the pattern, where the initial boost in growth just went away,” Zhuoting Wu, lead author of the study from Northern Arizona University (NAU), said.

“As ecosystems adjusted, the responses changed,” Wu said.

North Korea today launched a long-range rocket that disintegrated soon after blastoff, according to the US and Asian nations who condemned it as a “provocative” act threatening regional security.

North Korea had said the rocket was aimed at putting a satellite in orbit for peaceful research purposes, but Western critics see it as a disguised ballistic missile test, banned by United Nations resolutions.

A new study has raised the possibility that advanced versions of T. rex and other dinosaurs, monstrous creatures with the intelligence and cunning of humans, may be the life forms that evolved on other planets in the universe.
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In the report, Ronald Breslow, discusses the century-old mystery of why the building blocks of terrestrial amino acids, sugars, and the genetic materials DNA and RNA exist mainly in one orientation or shape.

A Japanese company has created a robot with 65 facial expressions which can talk, sing and can easily be mistaken for a real-life girl at first sight.

The Geminoid F can create smiles and even enigmatic, quizzical expressions, using mechanical actuators underneath her rubber ’skin’, the Daily Mail reported.

She can smile, furrow her brows and move her mouth – although she often looks rather dazed. It can also talk and sing – playing recordings, or ‘mouthing’ other people’s voices.

The powerful earthquake with a magnitude of 8.6 occurred off the west coast of norther Sumathra at 1408 hours this afternoon, National Geophysical Research Institute (NGRI) Chief Scientist and Head of Sesimology Observatory D Sri Nagesh said today.
Talking to UNI here, he said the earthquake occurred in the first 20 km of the earth’s crust.
He said the quake is classified as a ‘great earthquake’ and that is the reason why people even about 2000 km away from the epicentre also felt the quake all along the east coast in India.

Cellphone companies and the US government are trying to make it as difficult to use a stolen cellphone as it is to sell a stolen car.

US Senator Charles Schumer said in a statement late Monday that major cellphone carriers and the US Federal Communications Commission have agreed to set up a database of identification numbers that are unique to each phone.

A U.S. appeals court on Friday showed few signs that it was prepared to support a request by Apple Inc (AAPL.O) to block immediately the sale of some Samsung Electronics (005930.KS) smartphones and tablets.

In a high-stakes patent dispute, the court heard arguments about whether a federal trial judge acted correctly in December when she ruled that Apple failed to provide enough evidence to support an injunction of Samsung’s Galaxy product line.