Washington, Oct 15 (IANS) Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have questioned the technical feasibility of the ‘Mars One’ project that aims to establish the first human colony on the Red Planet by 2025. ‘Mars One’ is a non-profit organisation based in the Netherlands that has put forward conceptual plans to establish a permanent […]
London, Oct 15 (IANS) Women who are shy and more sensitive to stress are more likely to develop Alzheimer’s disease, found a research. Women who worry, cope poorly with stress and experience mood swings in middle age run a higher risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease later in life, it showed. “Some studies have shown that long […]
Washington, Oct 15 (IANS) US President Barack Obama warned that there would be periodic setbacks in the fight against the Islamic State (IS) and said it is a long-term campaign. “This is going to be a long-term campaign; there are no quick fixes involved,” Obama said after a meeting with coalition military leaders at Joint Base […]
Washington, Oct 15 (IANS) The European Space Agency’s Philae lander has snapped a “selfie” of one of the Rosetta spacecraft’s 16-metre solar arrays, with a comet hovering in the background some 16 km away. This is the last image from the Philae lander before it separates from Rosetta Nov 12 to land on the comet named […]
Washington, Oct 15 (IANS) NASA’s Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) spacecraft has provided scientists their first look at a storm of solar energetic particles (SEPs) at the Red Planet. The solar energetic particles (SEPs) are streams of high-speed particles blasted from the sun during explosive solar activity like flares or coronal mass ejections (CMEs). Around […]
Seoul, Oct 15 (IANS) Military officials of South Korea and North Korea Wednesday held talks at the village of Panmunjom, media reported. Military officials from the two Koreas started a dialogue from 10 a.m. in Panmunjom, Xinhua reported citing broadcaster YTN. Earlier Wednesday, Yonhap news agency reported citing unidentified government sources that the two Koreas “are […]
La Paz, Oct 15 (IANS) Bolivia has enacted a new law designed to combat domestic violence and encourage victims to stand up and speak out their sufferings. The law is particularly aimed at reducing domestic violence against women, who are often reluctant to speak out, Xinhua cited Bolivian News Agency as quoting Bolivian President Evo Morales […]
Washington, Oct 15 (IANS) Telugu Association of North America (TANA), the largest Telugu organization outside India, has announced that it will be making an initial contribution of $100,000 for relief efforts for the victims of cyclone Hudhud. Expressing shock at the unprecedented disaster caused by cyclone Hudhud in the northern districts of Andhra Pradesh, TANA President […]
Austin (Texas), Oct 15 (IANS/EFE) Nina Pham, the US nurse who became infected with Ebola, has said that she is doing “well”, according to a communique released by Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas, where she has been quarantined since Oct 10. “I’m doing well and want to thank everyone for their kind wishes and prayers. […]
London/Berlin/Monrovia, Oct 14 (IANS) London’s Heathrow airport Tuesday began applying new precautionary measures to detect possible cases of Ebola virus disease in passengers arriving from West African countries even as a Sudanese national infected by the virus died in Germany. A Heathrow spokesman told Efe news agency that the new measures went into effect Tuesday morning […]