Science

Toronto, September 05: Andromeda and Triangulum, the two galaxies closest to our own, collided two to three billion years ago, changing the galactic structure, according to evidence unearthed by astronomers.

The collision appears to have plucked millions of stars from the Triangulum disk to form a faint stream visible in the Pan-Andromeda Archaeological Survey (PAndAS) data, says Larry Widrow, professor of physics and Astronomy at Queen’s University.

Washington, September 05: It’s not only humans who wonder if the grass is greener elsewhere. Even monkeys do have the desire to explore options in hopes of finding something better, a new study has revealed.

In fact, researchers at the Duke University have based their findings on an analysis of brain scans of monkeys, the findings of which are published in the latest edition of the ‘Current Biology’ journal.

Washington, September 04: Vodafone and LG Mobiles have planned to launch a windows 6.5 based mobile phone which would soon expected to reach the market.

The handset offered is a good featured handset and this handset would be known as LG GM750 it proffers features like- e-mail, calendar, faster Internet surfing, 3-inch full touchscreen, in-built GPS.

Bangalore, September 04: Chip-maker Cypress Semiconductor has introduced full-integrated touchscreen controllers for electronic applications such as mobile handsets, netbooks, printers and digital still cameras, the company said Friday.

Based on system-on-chip architecture, the controllers offer superior performance and new features, Cypress said in a statement.

—Agencies

Washington, September 04: The LG Chocoloate BL 40 was previously in discuss but now the time has came when the handset is about to touch the heated mobile market.

The LG chocolate BL 40 handset is packed with a 4-inches WVGA screen which offers the great experience to the user.

The LG chocolate is a touch screen handset that is equipped with features like- multitouch, HSDPA, Wifi, talk time of5hr in 3G network while 6hrs in 2G network, 5Megapixels camera, video recording, fast email.

Dr. Skott Ahn (CEO) LG Electronics Mobile Communications Company said that

Washington, September 04: Two astronauts from the space shuttle Discovery were working outside the International Space Station Thursday to install a new ammonia tank that is crucial for keeping the orbiting laboratory cool.

US astronaut John ‘Danny’ Olivas and Swede Christer Fuglesang left the ISS at 2212 GMT on a planned six-and-a-half hour spacewalk. They got started nearly an hour later than planned because of problems with a communications device in Olivas’ spacesuit.

Washington, September 04: It’s often said that seeing is believing. But, a new study says that believing is seeing too — when it comes to perceiving other people’s emotions.

An international team has carried out the study and found that people see facial expressions based on what they expect to see — a pattern that can lead to trouble, the latest issuse of the ‘Psychological Science’ journal reported.

In fact, researchers have found that the way people initially think about the emotions of others biases their subsequent perception and memory of their facial expressions.

Washington, September 04: The long awaited ability to send MMS messages via the iPhone will soon be a fact, at least for some, AT&T said on Thursday.

“We’ve been working for the past several months to prepare our systems and network to ensure the best possible experience with MMS when it launches,” the company said in a statement. MMS for iPhone 3G and 3GS customers will be available from Friday, September 25 after a software update during the day.

United States, September 03: Nokia from along time is launching its product day by day but this time Nokia has come up with totally new series ‘X’ and has introduce two new cell phones.

Nokia has initiated new mobile phones and has tagged them as X6 and X3 Music phone.

Nokia X6 is jam-packed for the music lovers as per their requirement so that they would not face any sort of barrier in their entertainment section.

Washington, September 03: Toshiba is known for its storage devices in the market from a long time but this time Toshiba has planned for 640GB storing capacity hard drive.

Toshiba new 640GB hard drive is portable in size as it is about 2.5inches in size which works at 5,400RPM.

This hard drive would be a helpful step for the users because of its storing capacity, size, data transfer speed, lower power consumption, eco-friendly.

This new series of hard drive launched is also offered in different storing capacity of 640GB, 500GB, 320GB, 250GB and 160GB.

New York, September 03: Goofy videos weren’t on the minds of Len Kleinrock and his team at UCLA when they began tests 40 years ago on what would become the Internet.

Neither was social networking, for that matter, nor were most of the other easy-to-use applications that have drawn more than a billion people online.

Instead the researchers sought to create an open network for freely exchanging information, an openness that ultimately spurred the innovation that would later spawn the likes of YouTube, Facebook and the World Wide Web.

Washington, September 02: Internet auction house eBay is selling control of Skype for about $2 billion. Under the deal, eBay will retain ownership of about one-third of the online telecommunications unit. Skype has more than 400 million customers who use it to make mostly international calls. Calls between Skype users are free.

—Agencies

Canberra, September 02: Australia’s Great Barrier Reef, the world’s largest living organism, is under grave threat from climate warming and coastal development, and its prospects of survival are “poor”, a major new report found on Wednesday.

While the World Heritage-protected site, which sprawls for more than 345 000km² off Australia’s east coast, is in a better position than most other reefs globally, the risk of its destruction was mounting.

Tokyo, September 02: Sony said on Tuesday that its Vaio-brand computers sold in the United States would have Google’s Chrome as their default internet browser, boosting the search engine giant’s fight against rival Microsoft.

Sony said the decision was based on Chrome’s “quality and functions”.

Google launched Chrome in September but it has failed to enjoy the spectacular success of its search engine.

Chrome was the fourth-ranking web browser with a market share of 1.2% in February, according to research firm Net Applications.

London, September 02: Sci-fi proposals to cool the planet are laden with risk but may be Earth’s only hope if politicians fail to tackle global warming, scientists said on Tuesday in their biggest evaluation to date of “geo-engineering” concepts.

The verdict by Britain’s prestigious Royal Society came little more than three months before a UN showdown in Copenhagen on how to reduce the carbon emissions that drive climate change.

Cape Canaveral, September 02: A pair of spacewalkers successfully tackled a hefty tank removal job at the international space station on Tuesday as their crewmates unloaded comedian Stephen Colbert’s namesake treadmill for all “those famously fat astronauts”.

The only concern Nicole Stott and Danny Olivas had about mass – everything is weightless up there, after all – involved the huge ammonia tank they needed to disconnect. They held the freed 600kg tank steady until a robot arm grabbed it.

Bangkok, September 02: Attention internet-savvy travellers: Thailand is giving away free trips to five lucky couples who don’t mind sitting in front of a computer while on vacation.

The Tourism Authority of Thailand launched a new campaign on Tuesday offering five couples fully paid trips to the country’s most popular cities and beaches.

In return, they will be asked to blog, chat and tweet about their holiday in a bid to win a grand prize of $10 000, a BlackBerry and a video camera.

Des Moines, September 02: From anaesthesia to the recovery room, 70-year-old Monna Cleary’s children followed her surgery – 140 characters or less at a time.

Twitter is opening doors to the sterile confines of operating rooms, paving the way for families – and anyone else for that matter – to follow a patient’s progress as they go under the knife.

Most of the Cleary family chose to track the developments from a laptop computer in the hospital’s waiting room. But one daughter-in-law kept tabs from work.

Geneva, September 02: The world’s seas could rise by more than a metre by 2100 as the melting Arctic has an impact on weather across the planet, the environmental group WWW said in a report on Wednesday.

That projection, roughly twice the sea-level rise cited in U.N. and other research, takes account of the impact of disappearing ice sheets of Greenland and western Antarctica.

Sharply higher seas could also lead to flooding of coastal regions, potentially affecting about a quarter of the world’s population, the WWF said.

Pretoria, September 02: The CSIR International Convention Centre (CSIRICC) in Pretoria has been awarded a silver classification for its efforts towards greener operations, the Heritage Environmental Management Company said on Wednesday.

“The CSIRICC’s commitment to addressing its impacts can clearly be seen in the enthusiasm with which the convention centre is applying more environmentally friendly operating practices,” said Heritage director Neal Dickson.

New Delhi, September 02: India’s per capita green house gas (GHG) emission, the main cause of global warming, continues to be less than the global average and even in 2031 it will be below the world average of 2005, the environment and forest ministry asserted on Wednesday.

London, September 02: Eastern Asia is believed to be the place where man tamed the wolf into becoming a dog. Now, researchers have succeeded in further narrowing the birthplace of man’s best friend.

“For the first time in history, it is now possible to provide a detailed picture of the dog, including birthplace, point in time and the number of wolves that were tamed,” says Peter Savolainen, a biology researcher at the Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan (KTH) or The Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden.

Panaji, September 02: India’s maiden moon mission, Chandrayaan-1, in one of its vital findings, has endorsed the lunar magma ocean hypothesis, helping the scientists better understand the history of the satellite, a NASA scientist said here today.

Speaking at an international conference here, Carle Pieters, a professor at the US-based Brown University, who was associated with the Chandrayaan as a moon mineral mapper, said, visual confirmation of anorthite – a rich calcium plagioclase – on the upper lunar surface had virtually endorsed the magma ocean hypothesis.

Kolkata, September 02: A 43-year-old man, suffering from ‘Aplastic Anaemia’ for over a year, has got a new lease of life after undergoing a successful ‘mismatched and unrelated cord blood transplantation’ at a cancer research institute here.

‘Aplastic Anaemia’ is a haematological disorder stemming from bone marrow which is incapable of producing blood cells.

Washington, September 02: A new iPhone application enables users to track and report outbreaks of infectious diseases like H1N1 or swine flu in real time.

The application, “Outbreaks Near Me”, builds upon the mission and proven capability of HealthMap, an online resource that collects, filters, maps and disseminates information about emerging infectious diseases.