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Indian-origin teenager Suvir Mirchandani shows how printing in 'Garamond Font' could save US Government $400 Million every year

April 6, 2014

Suvir Mirchandani, a 14 year old Indian origin student at a school in Pennsylvania, has found a way of saving the US government $400 million dollars (£240 million) per annum. Suvir has shown how by simply changing the Font US ..

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“Charkilo”: First-ever miniature planet with rings discovered

April 1, 2014

Astronomers from Niels Bohr Institute have discovered a miniature planet “Charkilo” with two rings of ice and pebbles between Saturn and Uranus in the Kuiper Belt. Miniature planet “Charkilo”        A Giant asteroid i.e. a celestial body known as ..

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Ban on Smoking in Public places has led to 10 % fall in premature births and asthma attacks

April 1, 2014

Researchers led by Prof.  Jasper Been, from University of Edinburgh, have found that the Ban on smoking at public places has actually helped to cut premature births and asthma attacks by 10%. As per a previous study, laws banning smoking in ..

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Internet transition to speedier Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6)

March 28, 2014

The Internet transition from the current Internet Protocol IPv4 to the next-generation Internet protocol IPv6 is set to speed up in 2014 as web addresses under the system IPv4 come to an end. IPv6 addresses are longer and more complex ..

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Scientists discovered how to avoid a speeding ticket

March 27, 2014

The researchers from University of Leicester found that the drivers could escape detection by driving so fast that their number plates would appear invisible to speed cameras. The car would need to be travelling at about 192 million km/ hr ..

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Historic MS-DOS and Word for Windows source code available to the public

March 27, 2014

The software giant, Microsoft released the source codes of MS-DOS and Word for Windows in collaboration with the Computer History Museum (CHM) in Silicon Valley. The source code from MS DOS 1.1 and 2.0, as well as Microsoft Word for ..

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Study: Cosmic inflation no longer theory

March 25, 2014

The scientists from the Background Imaging of Cosmic Extragalactic Polarization 2 (BICEP2 )found out the primordial gravitational waves, the first direct evidence of cosmic inflation theory. The data represent the first images of gravitational waves, or ripples in space-time. These ..

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Environmentalist Ms. Almitra Patel

March 24, 2014

Environmentalist Ms. Almitra Patel is the member of Supreme Court Committee for Solid Waste Management of India. She has a very strong technical background and experience in several engineering fields, good para-medical knowledge and on a wide variety of pollution-related ..

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GEAC revalidated 10-GM crops for field trails

March 24, 2014

The Genetic Engineering Approval Committee (GEAC) revalidated the field trials for 10 varieties of Genetically Modified (GM) food crops viz. wheat, rice, maize, cotton, sorghum, etc. The panel has allowed multi-national seed companies viz. Mahyco, BASF India and Monsanto India ..

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G D Birla award for scientific research 2013: Physicist Prof. Rajesh Gopakumar

March 24, 2014

Physicist Prof. Rajesh Gopakumar (46) to be honoured with 23rd G D Birla award for scientific research for 2013. At present, Mr. Gopakumar working as a theoritical physicist at Harish Chandra Research Institute, Allahabad and has made important contributions on ..

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