News tagged with 'science'. Found 230 tagged news.

Aliens Invade Europe. Seriously!

Gwalior :: India | about 8 hours ago

Posted by city786

It was bound to happen. The aliens have finally landed and what's more, they've made themselves known. And these are not aliens in the 'illegal immigrant' sense of the word. Frankly, they also aren't aliens in the 'ET' sense of the word either.DAISIE...

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IBM to build brain-like computers

San Francisco :: CA :: USA | about 19 hours ago

Posted by cooldiponline

IBM has announced it will lead a US government-funded collaboration to make electronic circuits that mimic brains. Part of a field called "cognitive computing", the research will bring together neurobiologists, computer and materials scientists and psychologists....

Tags: IBM to build brain-like computers, IBM, science, technology, business

Economic Times, India: China grads feel job market chill amid global crisis

Beijing :: China | 1 day ago

Holding fresh CVs but lowered hopes, hundreds of thousands of Chinese students flocked to recruitment fairs across the country this week as the government warned them not to be fussy amid the global financial crisis. "I'll take anything so long as it's...

Tags: global financial crisis, financial crisis, financial, college, crisis, china, economic, science, usa, obama

Study: Away-facing buggies stress babies

London :: United Kingdom | 2 days ago

Posted by pranay

LONDON, England (CNN) -- Parents who choose a buggy that seats their baby facing away from them could risk long-term development problems in their children, according to a study published Friday.  Parents are less likely to interact with...

Tags: Study, science, buggy, children, harm, stress

Away-facing prams 'may harm babies psychologically'

London :: United Kingdom | 2 days ago

The next time you take your baby out for a stroll, avoid a forward-facing pram, for a new study has suggested that infants who face away from their parents in buggies could suffer lasting psychological harm. Researchers at the University of Dundee have...

Tags: buggy, study, children, harm, stress, face away, emotionally impoverished, science

Italian radar in Mars glacier find

Washington :: DC :: USA | 2 days ago

An Italian space radar has detected two glaciers that might one day help find life on Mars, researchers said Thursday. Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) located the huge glaciers under a layer of space rock along the equator of the Red Planet. The area...

Tags: planet, mars, scientists, mission, red planet, with, huge glaciers, science, rocky debris, water ice, huge glacier, Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter

Scientists say Copernicus' remains, grave found

Warsaw :: Poland | 3 days ago

Posted by pranay

WARSAW, Poland – Researchers said Thursday they have identified the remains of Nicolaus Copernicus by comparing DNA from a skeleton and hair retrieved from one of the 16th-century astronomer's books. The findings could put an end to...

Tags: Copernicus, Science, grave, remains, history, challenged, Bible, Galileo, Newton, DNA

NASA announces naming contest for new Mars rover

Pasadena :: TX :: USA | 4 days ago

The contest began on November 18, and is open to students 5 to 18 years old who attend a U.S. school and are enrolled in the current academic year. To enter the contest, students will submit essays explaining why their suggested name for the rover should...

Tags: mars, science, mission, U.S, NASA

Which Came First? Eggs Before Chickens, Scientists Now Say

Alberton :: Canada | 8 days ago

Posted by pranay

  A rare fossilized dinosaur nest helps answer the conundrum of which came first, the chicken or the egg, two paleontologists say.   The small carnivorous dinosaur sat over her nest of eggs some 77 million years ago, along a sandy...

Tags: Egg, Chicken, first, paleontology, Science, history, dinosaurs

NASA says Phoenix Mars mission has ended

Los Angeles :: CA :: USA | 11 days ago

Posted by cooldiponline

LOS ANGELES – NASA on Monday declared an end to the Phoenix mission, some five months after the spacecraft became the first to land in Mars' arctic plains and taste water on another planet. Mission engineers have not heard from the Phoenix lander...

Tags: NASA, Phoenix, Mars, mission, science, technology