Nikita Venkatesh Scientists have created a latest breed of materials known as metamaterials that can twist the light.
Mingkai Liu, a PhD student at the ANU Research School of Physics and Engineering (RSPE), said that this new material can rotate lights polarization, orders of magnitude more strongly than natural materials and they can switch the effect on and off directly with light.
A new game in the Google play store, which is named after the Malaysian aircraft MH17, has garnered criticism for its concept that allows its users to fly a flight through a war zone and ends only when the flight crashes to the ground.
Terming it ‘appalling,’ The Daily Star reported that the app appeared on the Google Play store just hours after MH17 crashed in Ukraine killing everyone aboard.
Inspired by how moths use their eyes to see in the dark, scientists have created a new solar cell with drastically increased light collecting efficiency.
All over the world researchers are investigating solar cells which imitate plant photosynthesis, using sunlight and water to create synthetic fuels such as hydrogen.
Researchers at the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology (Empa) developed such a photoelectrochemical cell, recreating a moth’s eye to drastically increase its light collecting efficiency.
ADG Sutapa Sanyal on Sunday disclosed that the woman in her thirties who was earlier thought to have been raped was actually murdered by an accused who has been arrested.
The ADG also clarified that this was a one man operation.
“Accused have been identified, too much of hard work put in by UP police helped in solving case. The accused Ramsevak wanted to have physical relations with the victim. He killed her after failing in his attempts,” Sanyal said.
Ever tried running without swinging your arms? New research has shown that the swing in your arms counter balances the movement of your legs and saves energy at the same time.
“We know from the literature that arm swinging plays an important role in balancing the motion of the swinging legs,” said Christopher Arellano from the Brown University.
Arellano studied 13 runners and measured their oxygen consumption rates and carbon dioxide that they exhaled.
The Rajya Sabha today will have a short-duration discussion on violence in Gaza, where hundreds of people having lost their lives.
Rajya Sabha Chairman Hamid Ansari last week turned down government’s request to drop the discussion on the violence in Gaza.
A strident opposition led by the Congress and the Left parties on Friday reportedly stalled proceedings in Rajya Sabha during Question Hour demanding immediate discussion on killings of innocent women and children in Gaza.
Shraddha Kapoor came all the way to New Delhi in support Whisper’s ‘Touch the pickle campaign’ where she got candid with us.
Speaking exclusively to ANI at the event, Shraddha said she was proud to be associated with the campaign which is trying to break period taboos among Indian women.
According to reports, about 75 percent of the women still shy away from buying sanitary pads, 40 percent of women stay at home during ‘that time of the month’ and 65 percent don’t wash their hair.
Search engine giant, Google has reportedly seen a 22 percent raise in revenue and 6 percent in profits from last year.
According to the BBC, a report released by Google said that its revenue went up to 16 billion dollars and profits rose up to 3.4 million dollars in the second quarter from March through June.
A surge in demand for Google’s advertising is being seen as the prime factor that pushed its revenue to new heights, the report added.
The World Health Organisation says its spokesman Glenn Thomas was on board the Malaysian jetliner that was shot down over Ukraine.
Gregory Hartl, a spokesman for the Geneva-based UN health agency, says the 49-year-old Briton was traveling to Melbourne, Australia, to attend the 20th International AIDS conference, which starts Sunday.
Hartl told reporters today in Geneva that Thomas, who regularly briefed journalists and responded to media requests for interviews and comment, had been with WHO for more than a decade.
People who consider using Facebook as an antidepressant, think again as a recent study has proved that using Facebook makes you feel more ‘pitied’ about yourself.
Christina Sagioglou and Tobias Greitemeyer of the University of Innsbruck in Austria, who co-authored the new study, revealed that compared to browsing the Internet, Facebook is judged as less meaningful, less useful, and more of a waste of time, which ultimately leads to a decrease in mood, the Huffington post reported.
A six-year old dynamic striker has used Albion stars as his inspiration to net in 120 goals in a season.
British club Seagulls’ supporter Freddie Sharpe notched up the incredible tally in his debut season for Denton and South Heighton Junior Football Club’s under-sevens.
According to The Argus, striker Freddie posed for a photograph with his commemorative shirt when he reached three figures in April but carried on scoring goals until the end of the season.
Freddie joined Jason Novis’ team in January last year and made an immediate impact.
Resuming their first innings on Friday morning, India managed to add just five runs on Friday to their Thursday night total of 290 for the loss of nine wickets, before losing the wicket of Mohammad Shami in the second Test between the two sides being played at the Lord’s cricket ground here.
Shami was caught off an outside edge by England captain Alastair Cook stationed at first slip of the bowling of Ben Stokes for his individual score of 19 with three boundaries.
His partner, Ishant Sharma remained unbeaten on 12 with two boundaries.
Pakistan is in touch with India for a meeting between their foreign secretaries as had been decided during talks between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Pakistani counterpart Nawaz Sharif in May.
This was stated by Pakistan High Commissioner Abdul Basit during an interaction with the media at the Press Club of India here.
“We are in touch with each other and things are moving forward,” Basit said while replying to a question on the issue.
A new study claims that yoga and other exercises, which have relaxing effect on our bodies, can help people with social anxiety disorders look at the world positively.
Adam Heenan, a Ph.D. from Queen’s University found that relaxation activities literally change the way people perceive the world, altering their perception so that they view the environment in a less threatening, less negative way. For people with mood and anxiety disorders, this is an important breakthrough.
The 2nd biopic on J.R.R. Tolkien ‘ Tolkien and Lewis’ will pivot on his friendship with the ‘Chronicles Of Narnia’ author C.S. Lewis.
According to the Hollywood Reporter, the 18 million dollar project which would be helmed by Simon West, is mainly set at the start of World War II, and will show tell of the time Tolkien helped influence Lewis to re-embrace Christianity after Lewis had become an atheist at the age of 15.
A ruling party politician in Sri Lanka and his three accomplices were today sentenced to 20 years in jail for killing a British tourist and raping his Russian girlfriend more than two years ago.
High Court Judge Rohini Walgama found Sampath Pushpa Vidanapathirana and his three accomplices guilty of killing Khuram Sheikh and raping his girlfriend Victoria at a southern tourist resort on Christmas Day in 2011.
The murder followed an altercation between Vidanapathirana, the Chairman of the Tangalle Town Council, and 32-year-old Sheikh, an International Red Cross aid worker.
Amid demands by Civil Service aspirants for scrapping the CSAT test, government Friday said it was looking at the issue with “all the sympathy, sensitivity and seriousness”.
Talking to reporters outside Parliament House, Minister of State for Personnel and Training Jitendra Singh blamed the Opposition for disrupting the proceedings in the Rajya Sabha where the government wanted to have a discussion on a statement made on the issue.
Brazil’s football team might have been left humiliated on the home pitch by Germany, but now government are claiming a 2014 FIFA World Cup victory of in a different area.
Brazil’s federal government released figures this week that claimed that the World Cup was a triumph for the country’s transportation and tourism industries.
Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff’s chief of staff Aloisio Mercadante said in a statement that the nation lost the trophy, but they won the World Cup, CNN reported.
A new study has found that eating lean beef can reduce risk factors for heart disease as it is the principal protein source in a Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH) like diet, along with fruits, vegetables and low-fat dairy.
Four people, including three children, were killed early Friday in Rae Bareli district of Uttar Pradesh when their house collapsed following heavy rain, police said.
The incident took place in village Hardoi of Bachhrawan region when following overnight rain, the roof of the house of Kishan Rahim collapsed early Friday morning, killing him and his three children.
Police said the house was in a dilapidated condition. Police personnel with the help of locals pulled out the bodies of the deceased from the rubble.
Pakistan’s High Commissioner to India Abdul Basit on Friday said that his country’s government had no knowledge of the meeting between senior Indian journalist Ved Pratap Vaidik with Jamaat-ud-Dawa leader and 26/11 mastermind Hafiz Saeed.
“This was a meeting between two private citizens, our government was not aware nor was the Indian Government,” Basit said at an interaction with Indian media at the Press Club of India here.
He may not have been able to deliver the World Cup to Argentina but Lionel Messi topped the google search results for forwards during the just-concluded event in Brazil along with Portuguese star Cristiano Ronaldo.
“Portuguese star Christiano Ronaldo and Argentina`s Lionel Messi may have not performed to the expectations of fans this World Cup, but online search trends reveal that they retain the top spot when it comes to being the best strikers in the World Cup,” Google said in a release.
A fire broke out at the Lotus Business Park building located at the Andheri link road in Mumbai’s western suburbs on Friday. Fire tenders reached the spot on time.
The premise has offices of noted film personalities, including Rakesh Roshan and Ajay Devgn.
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi has condoled the loss of lives in the incident involving the Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17.
“Our thoughts and prayers are with the families of those who lost their lives on board Flight MH17. We stand with them in this hour of grief,” the Prime Minister said.
All 298 people on board a Malaysia Airlines plane were killed on Thursday after the jet was shot down by terrorists over war-torn eastern Ukraine near the Russian border, nearly four months after the mysterious disappearance of MH370.
Delhiites woke up to an overcast Friday morning and saw light rainfall which is expected to continue through the day, the Met Office said.
The minimum temperature was 24.6 degrees Celsius – two notches below the season’s average.
“The sky will remain cloudy with rain and thundershower,” said an India Meteorological Department official.
The city recorded 56.7 mm of rainfall since late Thursday.