Provides the latest RSS feeds for Science News. For more headlines on Breaking, National, Business, Finance, Sports and World News, visit our home page Bangladesh Sun.com http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/cat/a9927dde6777aafc/ en-us Tue, 21 May 2013 07:55:21 -0400 Tue, 21 May 2013 07:55:21 -0400 30 Three planets - Venus, Jupiter, and Mercury will present a spectacular sky show during the last week of May. So, look low in the west-northwest after sunset in late May, and you can watch Venus, Jupiter, and Mercury pirouetting through the tightest gathering of three naked-eye planets that the world will see until 2026. "Here's a beautiful chance to see three planets all together," said Alan ... http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214654792/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Tue, 21 May 2013 01:50:04 -0400 http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214654792/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Time spent by asthma patients soaking up the sun may help in the treatment of the illness, a research has said. A team of scientists at King's College London said vitamin D, which is made by the body in sunlight, calms an "over-active" part of the immune system in asthma, BBC reported. However, treating patients with vitamin D has not yet been tested. People with asthma find it hard to breathe ... http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214634193/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 10:20:01 -0400 http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214634193/scat/a9927dde6777aafc India's rising star director Anurag Kashyap has complained that filmmakers in in the country still do not enjoy the kind of freedom of space and expression that would allow them to make meaningful films. "Today, we are forced to treat our audience as children of less than five years and hence we have to only make goody-goody films with a huge dose of escapism. I want to have the option making ... http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214634185/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 10:10:01 -0400 http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214634185/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Former U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Commissioner Douglas Shulman speaks during an interview with Reuters at his office in Washington in this October 8, 2009 file photo. REUTERS/Hyungwon Kang/Files WASHINGTON - A U.S. Senate panel will try on Tuesday to pry more details out of current and former officials of the Internal Revenue Service about the agency’s targeting of conservative ... http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214656548/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Tue, 21 May 2013 03:58:38 -0400 http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214656548/scat/a9927dde6777aafc U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius (R) and Attorney General Eric Holder (2nd R) lead a news conference to announce Medicare Fraud Strike Force law enforcement actions at the Justice Department in Washington, May 14, 2013. Also pictured is FBI Assistant Director Ron Hosko (L). REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst WASHINGTON - With the White House already reeling from three major ... http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214656549/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Tue, 21 May 2013 03:58:37 -0400 http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214656549/scat/a9927dde6777aafc MOORE, Oklahoma (Reuters) - At least 91 people, including 20 children, were feared killed when a 2 mile wide tornado tore through an Oklahoma City suburb, trapping victims beneath the rubble as one elementary school took a direct hit and another was ... http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214656843/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Tue, 21 May 2013 03:50:27 -0400 http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214656843/scat/a9927dde6777aafc (Fotolia) A pair of donkeys will be put down after they chased down a pensioner on his motor scooter, dragged him off and killed him. Sandor Horvath, 65, a retired firefighter, was visiting a pal's farm in Magyarszecsod, Hungary, last week when he was attacked by killer donkeys Muki and Szamoca. The animals bit and trampled him to death after dragging him about 50 ... http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214657280/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Tue, 21 May 2013 03:34:56 -0400 http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214657280/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Webcomics are a popular, diverse and increasingly widespread format that most people are blissfully unaware. To address this, an interview was conducted with the team behind the popular UK-based webcomic Exterminatus ... http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214655688/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Tue, 21 May 2013 03:03:50 -0400 http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214655688/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Qualifying high school and college students will have the opportunity to learn the basics of biology field studies while earning college credit at a free science program.Jarvis Christian College is accepting applications to its national Science Foundation Summer Science Institute, which will run from June 9 to July 18, according to a news release from the college.The institute is offering a field ... http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214656383/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Tue, 21 May 2013 02:40:02 -0400 http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214656383/scat/a9927dde6777aafc US tech giant Yahoo has snapped up Tumblr in a major US deal that will reportedly net the blogging site's 26-year-old founder a 250 million US dollar (£164 million) fortune six years after he started ... http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214654653/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Tue, 21 May 2013 00:52:44 -0400 http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214654653/scat/a9927dde6777aafc In vitro fertilization, seen above, is the process of fertilizing an egg before placing it back in a mother's womb as treatment for infertility. Some say the government should cover the costs. (SUBMITTED) Fertility awareness advocates are arguing infertility should be treated as a medical condition and covered by B.C. government health care, pointing to a recent online survey showing broad ... http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214654190/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Tue, 21 May 2013 00:47:20 -0400 http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214654190/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Calgary storm Just after it was revealed Alberta accounted for the majority of severe weather damage in Canada last year, forecasters are calling for one hail of a summer. While the southern and central parts of the province are expected to see hotter-than average temperatures, they’ll also be susceptible to more severe storms, said Jack Boston, a senior meteorologist with AccuWeather.com. ... http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214654189/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Tue, 21 May 2013 00:47:20 -0400 http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214654189/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne in the legislature for this month's provincial budget. (STAN BEHAL, Toronto Sun) Wynne is winning and Hudak’s a dud. Premier Kathleen Wynne and New Democrat’s Andrea Horwath are the most popular leaders in Ontario, leaving the Progressive Conservative’s Tim Hudak in the dust, according to a new Abacus Data poll. "I think Wynne has a lot ... http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214654655/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Tue, 21 May 2013 00:23:27 -0400 http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214654655/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper speaks at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York, May 16, 2013. (REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton) OTTAWA - Prime Minister Stephen Harper will make his first public comments Tuesday morning on the Senate expense scandal that has become one of his most serious political crises since taking office in 2006. Harper is scheduled to jet to Peru Tuesday afternoon ... http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214654654/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Tue, 21 May 2013 00:23:27 -0400 http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214654654/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Former MLA, MP, and aboriginal leader Elijah Harper has died. Elijah Harper - The Man Who Said No, to many Canadians - was remembered as much more by friends and family at funeral events Monday. Harper, a former Manitoba MLA and MP who was a key figure in shutting down the failed Meech Lake Accord, died Friday as a result of heart failure stemming from diabetes ... http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214653252/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 23:43:35 -0400 http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214653252/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Alexandra-Kim Martin-Roberge is seen in this QMI Agency file photo. MONTREAL - The Quebec soldier whose stolen sex tape ruined her military career said she hoped to reach an "accommodation" with army officials. Alexandra-Kim Martin-Roberge said the Canadian army will present her with an offer on Tuesday at CFB Valcartier, just north of Quebec City. In 2010, while on a 12-month ... http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214653253/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 23:43:35 -0400 http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214653253/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Yahoo's purchase of blogging site Tumblr wasn't the only news from the company Monday: It also rolled out its redo of photo-sharing service Flickr, adding a new layout, a refreshed Android app, and perhaps most temptingly, a full terabyte of storage free to all users.The update couldn't be more welcome, although some may say it's too little, too late: Flickr was among the ... http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214651936/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 21:48:09 -0400 http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214651936/scat/a9927dde6777aafc By Kim Dixon and Roberta Rampton WASHINGTON | Mon May 20, 2013 9:30pm EDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Two senior White House aides knew weeks ago that a probe of the Internal Revenue Service had found that the U.S. tax agency had inappropriately targeted conservative groups, but did not tell President Barack Obama, a White House spokesman said on Monday. A Treasury Department official ... http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214652364/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 21:30:20 -0400 http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214652364/scat/a9927dde6777aafc The days of traditional post-mortem examinations for infants could be numbered. Bereaved parents agonising over whether to subject their dead child or stillborn baby to a full post-mortem now have an alternative that is potentially far less traumatic. For fetuses and infants under the age of one, MRI scans combined with minimally invasive procedures including blood tests are as effective as an ... http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214651937/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 21:16:09 -0400 http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214651937/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Prime Minister Stephen Harper speaks during a business round table at the Waldorf Astoria hotel in New York, May 16, 2013. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid OTTAWA - "People who work hard, pay their taxes, and play by the rules want accountability from their political leaders. We don't expect politicians to be perfect. But we do want to know that our tax dollars - money we've worked for - ... http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214651938/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 21:08:41 -0400 http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214651938/scat/a9927dde6777aafc OTTAWA - New Democrats tried to deflect questions about leader Thomas Mulcair's ethics Monday amid apparent contradictory statements he made about an alleged attempt to bribe him in 1994. "What's really clear is that our leader had nothing to do with secret cash payments, whereas the prime minister hasn't explained his role in secret cash payments," NDP MP Charlie Angus ... http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214651939/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 21:08:40 -0400 http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214651939/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Jodi Arias looks at her family during the penalty phase of her murder trial at Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix, Arizona May 20, 2013. REUTERS/Rob Schumacher/Arizona ... http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214649972/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 20:27:55 -0400 http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214649972/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Victoria DayIt may be the birthday of Queen Victoria, but most of us know the May long weekend as the unofficial kick-off to summer. (File ... http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214650338/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 20:27:53 -0400 http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214650338/scat/a9927dde6777aafc leopard seals at the water's edge would also be easier if penguins could take flight-so scientists have often wondered why and how the birds lost that ability. A popular theory of biomechanics suggests that the birds' once-flight-adapted wings simply became more and more efficient for swimming and eventually lost their ability to get penguins off the ground. More efficient diving, on ... http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214650964/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 20:25:40 -0400 http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214650964/scat/a9927dde6777aafc While officials start to tally injuries, wrecked homes, and upturned lives, tornado researchers and chasers are swinging into high gear. Despite a suite of sophisticated instruments at their disposal, ... http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214650963/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 20:25:40 -0400 http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214650963/scat/a9927dde6777aafc ORLANDO, Florida (Reuters) - Thousands of people have protested against the prosecution of an 18-year-old Florida high school senior after her parents launched an Internet petition claiming she was charged with sex crimes only because her lover, a then 14-year-old schoolmate, was another ... http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214650366/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 20:19:15 -0400 http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214650366/scat/a9927dde6777aafc WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama will bestow the Medal of Freedom posthumously on Sally Ride, the first American woman to fly in space. Obama says Ride was a role model to young women and showed that achievement has no limits. He says Ride advocated for innovation in science, engineering and math. Ride rode on the space shuttle Challenger on June 18, 1983. She died in July 2012 at 61 after a ... http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214650339/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 20:17:35 -0400 http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214650339/scat/a9927dde6777aafc "Kepler was my North, my South, my East and West, my working week, no weekend rest, my noon, my midnight, my talks, my song; I thought Kepler would last forever: I was ... http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214650972/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 20:11:21 -0400 http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214650972/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Bosma's widow: 'I am broken' TORONTO -- Hamilton, Ont., police continued their investigation on the farm owned by Tim Bosma's accused killer amid reports that more remains had been found. Aviation dynasty heir Dellen Millard is charged with first-degree murder in the death of Tim Bosma, 32, whose charred remains were discovered last week by police on the accused man's ... http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214650973/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 20:04:00 -0400 http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214650973/scat/a9927dde6777aafc One of the many idiosyncrasies of humanity is our desire to domesticate otherwise wild animals and keep them around as pets. This has generally worked out well for us in regards to small birds, cats, dogs and fish. There are those, however, who push the limits of this domesticity too far and end up endangering the very animal they claim to care for so much. Last week, US Representatives Howard ... http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214649813/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 19:31:06 -0400 http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214649813/scat/a9927dde6777aafc The European Space Agency says a former army helicopter pilot is to be Britain's first official astronaut to go to the International Space Station. Major Tim Peake, 41, is set for a five-month mission to the ISS in 2015 in a move being called a major boost for Britain's space industry, The Daily Telegraph reported Monday. Peake has been awaiting a mission assignment since graduating ... http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214649129/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 19:12:47 -0400 http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214649129/scat/a9927dde6777aafc The public has no shortage of enthusiasm for fictional spacefarers, as this weekend's box-office win by the newest "Star Trek" film proves. Yet the real-life U.S. space agency finds itself strapped for cash these days. With federal budgets tightening and NASA feeling the pinch, some space advocates are asking, "Can ... http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214649814/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 19:09:43 -0400 http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214649814/scat/a9927dde6777aafc 18 year old Eesha Kha-RAY from Saratoga, Calif., is one of the best young scientists in the world. She received the Young Scientist Award for her research in chemistry. Eesha: "My project, I developed a new supercapacitor, which is basically an energy storage device which can hold a lot of energy in a small amount of volume." Sharon Chin ... http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214648916/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 19:02:39 -0400 http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214648916/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Malaria parasites give mosquitoes a keener sense of smell, it seems. A small-scale study in the lab finds that mosquitoes infected by the parasite are three times as likely as uninfected mosquitoes to respond to human odours. If the same results are seen in malaria-carrying mosquitoes in the wild, it could lead to new ways to combat the ... http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214649815/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 18:55:33 -0400 http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214649815/scat/a9927dde6777aafc never graced a Labour MP . But as the first astronaut who will spacewalk with bona fide British credentials, he can surely achieve a Tim take-off. Not every namesake will scale the same giddying popularity peaks, but for all a page will be turned - opening, what ... http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214644733/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 18:17:59 -0400 http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214644733/scat/a9927dde6777aafc survey asked "do scientists agree [the] earth is getting warmer from climate change because of human activity?" 43% of Americans said "no." In other words, according to the citizenry, there's still a debate in the scientific community about the causes of global ... http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214644734/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 17:59:20 -0400 http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214644734/scat/a9927dde6777aafc the animals onboard a Russian 'space ark' died during a study of the long-term effects of weightlessness. Should space agencies experiment on ... http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214643564/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 17:14:38 -0400 http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214643564/scat/a9927dde6777aafc WASHINGTON, May 20 (RIA Novosti) – If you blinked you might have missed it, but NASA cameras captured video of the largest explosion it has ever seen on the moon, when a meteorite crashed into the lunar surface in a bright burst of light visible to the naked eye. "On March 17, 2013, an object about the size of a small boulder hit the lunar surface," said Bill Cooke of ... http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214642994/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 17:06:18 -0400 http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214642994/scat/a9927dde6777aafc CALGARY -- Police say an unlicensed 15-year-old girl was behind the wheel of a car driving 77 km/h over the posted speed limit down the Queen Elizabeth II Highway on Monday. "We've got this very young and inexperienced driver behind the wheel ... travelling down the highway like a rocket," alleged Sheriff Jason Graw with the Airdrie Integrated Traffic Unit. "That's a ... http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214642608/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 17:04:50 -0400 http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214642608/scat/a9927dde6777aafc In today's business world, disruption is a constant force that never lets up. At the annual WIRED Business Conference: Disruptive by Design, we celebrate the creative power of bold new ideas and the people that make them happen. See the event ... http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214642729/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 17:00:53 -0400 http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214642729/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Tornados hit Oklahoma OKLAHOMA CITY - The central United States braced for another round of violent weather on Monday after tornadoes struck the region over the weekend, killing two Oklahoma men and injuring at least 39 people. Severe storms were expected to pummel as many as 10 states on Monday, the National Weather Service said. It predicted a 10 percent chance of tornadoes in parts of Texas, ... http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214643565/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 16:40:26 -0400 http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214643565/scat/a9927dde6777aafc '); British astronaut Tim Peake will be the first British crewmember of the International Space Station when he launches in 2015. He represents the UK and European space ... http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214642304/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 16:17:40 -0400 http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214642304/scat/a9927dde6777aafc erosion , applied massive quantities of nitrogen that leaks from soil to ground and surface waters and, sometimes, literally siphoned all water from rivers, emptying them for human uses before they reach the ocean," he continued. "We have diverted vast amounts of freshwater to harness fossil energy, dammed major waterways, and destroyed aquatic ecosystems.'; To raise awareness and ... http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214641297/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 16:16:35 -0400 http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214641297/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Did you know that the bamboo lemur consumes enough cyanide daily to kill a human? ...that Paris green paint, which gets its colour from arsenic, was so toxic that it was used as a rat poison as well for painting masterpieces? ...that there is a lump of crystallised carbon (a diamond) that is 3,000 kilometers (1,865 miles) wide that weighs roughly 2.5 thousand trillion trillion tonnes in the core ... http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214641496/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 16:10:37 -0400 http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214641496/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Link to video: Tim Peake to become first official British astronaut to visit International Space Station There is the urge to explore the endless heavens, there are the mysteries of the starry cosmos to solve, but above all there is the faltering economy to revive.Of all the reasons nations give for sending their citizens ... http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214641278/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 16:10:37 -0400 http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214641278/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mike Duffy scandal: New Democrats smell blood OTTAWA - The NDP has dialed 911 on the Senate expense scandal. Ontario MP Charlie Angus has written to the RCMP commissioner asking for an investigation into a $90,000 "secret cash payment" the prime minister's ex-chief of staff Nigel Wright gave to Sen. Mike Duffy to help him repay improperly claimed living expenses. "These ... http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214641640/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 16:01:13 -0400 http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214641640/scat/a9927dde6777aafc An 18-year-old's science fair project leads her to create an improved supercapacitor with technology that could provide super-fast phone charging in the ... http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214641335/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 15:51:59 -0400 http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214641335/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Amy Yoon, 3, plays with puppets at the Northbrook Public Library on May 15. In the library's revamped game-day program, she will learn to experiment with scientific projects using constructive toys that the library is ... http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214641497/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 15:51:21 -0400 http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214641497/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Robert Ricklefs at the University of Missouri at St Louis and his colleagues studied 41 murres in flight, they found the birds consumed 146 watts per kilogram of body weight. That is almost three times as much energy as the bar-headed goose, previously considered the least efficient flying ... http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214642299/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 15:44:58 -0400 http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214642299/scat/a9927dde6777aafc We already know that a high level of the amino acid homocysteine in the blood is a risk factor for Alzheimer's, and that B vitamin supplements help reduce homocysteine levels. But it was unclear whether or not these supplements would slow the progression of mild cognitive impairment (MCI) to ... http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214641523/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 15:44:57 -0400 http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214641523/scat/a9927dde6777aafc IT MIMICS the leaping glides of flying fish and needs no external power. The Jump Glider could be the first in a new generation of robots, harnessing aerodynamic lift to travel further than it would if it simply hopped, and without using additional ... http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214642300/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 15:44:54 -0400 http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214642300/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Boulder County Bomb Squad's robot checks a suspicious package next to parking lot at Fairview High School in Boulder, Colo., May 20, 2013. (Daily Camera/Mark Leffingwell) BOULDER, Colo. - The discovery of a forgotten science project on a school bus Monday morning led Boulder police to lock down a high school, shut down streets and bring in the department's bomb squad. A bus driver ... http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214642301/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 15:42:33 -0400 http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214642301/scat/a9927dde6777aafc More allegations of questionable accounting from Duffy as critics step up attack OTTAWA -- Prime Minister Stephen Harper darts off to South America Tuesday as his party and office attempt to put a lid on an explosive Senate firestorm at home. Harper will dodge the direct ire of opposition parties this week, which will demand answers after his chief of staff Nigel Wright resigned and Senators ... http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214642302/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 15:37:28 -0400 http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214642302/scat/a9927dde6777aafc '); One of many fresh impact craters spotted by the UA-led HiRISE camera, orbiting the Red Planet on board NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter since ... http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214641092/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 15:13:42 -0400 http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214641092/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Helen Sharman, Britain's first cosmonaut, at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in 1991. Her journey aboard the Mir space station was not supported by the British government. Photograph: Sipa Press/Rex ... http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214640301/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 15:06:11 -0400 http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214640301/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Major Tim Peake will make history when he joins the crew of the International Space Station in 2015. So what can Britain's first official astronaut expect of life ... http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214640300/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 15:06:10 -0400 http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214640300/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Chris Roberts has a vision: build the most ambitious, immersive, and graphically outrageous space simulation game ever made. With over $9.5 million in crowdfunding already in the bank, and a brand new office opened up in Santa Monica, Roberts and his studio Cloud Imperium Games is well on its way doing just that, even ... http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214639905/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 15:05:27 -0400 http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214639905/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Last week, Urban Life Management Restaurant Group dropped a bombshell by announcing the ever-popular Hue restaurant in Thornton Park will close this summer to make way for the next great concept. Though the owners downtown Orlando stalwarts Craig Ustler, Phil Rampy and Rob Scheiwiller havent released much about whats planned for the new space or whether they will be involved in the new ... http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214642298/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 14:55:18 -0400 http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214642298/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Toronto police are investigating the killing of a man in the Dundas St.-Ossington Ave. area. (JACK BOLAND, Toronto Sun) TORONTO - A long weekend barbecue turned bloody after a 35-year-old man was shot dead at an apartment building in the Ossington Ave.-Dundas St. W. area. Quincy Ramirez was fatally shot at least once in the chest around 7:40 p.m. on Sunday. A 67-year-old building resident, ... http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214640007/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 14:53:43 -0400 http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214640007/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Slushy southern Ontario storm causes closures, cancellations While Ontarians were lounging on beaches and barbecuing on the Victoria Day weekend, Newfoundlanders were digging out after a freak snowstorm buried parts of the province under about two feet of snow. According ... http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214640281/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 14:53:43 -0400 http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214640281/scat/a9927dde6777aafc For those climbing Mount Everest, meeting the challenge has always relied on teamwork, friendship, communication, trust, dedication, and shared values. But those virtues have recently been undermined by crowds and misunderstanding on the mountain--and, late last month, by a fight ... http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214641074/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 14:51:39 -0400 http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214641074/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Once you are registered, New Scientist will send you our weekly newsletter, as well as occasional relevant information via email from New Scientist about our content, services, products, events, offers and competitions. Please read ... http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214641087/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 14:37:07 -0400 http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214641087/scat/a9927dde6777aafc South Pole IceCube neutrino observatory has seen a handful of ghostly high-energy neutrinos that almost certainly came from outer space, opening up the skies for neutrino ... http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214641088/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 14:37:06 -0400 http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214641088/scat/a9927dde6777aafc But whether this is a global effect and what is behind the change have been unclear. Are fish being ousted from their original habitats as climate change warms the waters? Are disappearances due to ... http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214639892/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 14:37:05 -0400 http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214639892/scat/a9927dde6777aafc It has now yielded the earliest ape and Old World monkey. At 25 million years old, the lower jaw of the ape and a molar from the Old World monkey are the same age as the rift itself, raising the possibility that the tectonic forces that formed the rift also drove the split of apes - and therefore humans - from ... http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214641089/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 14:37:03 -0400 http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214641089/scat/a9927dde6777aafc "IT'S BEEN called the Galapagos of the subsurface." Barbara Sherwood Lollar's enthusiasm for the fertile watery world her team has found 2.5 kilometres beneath Earth's surface is palpable. The water circulates through fractures in the rocks of a Canadian copper mine. Dating techniques indicate it has been isolated from the rest of the planet for up to 2.64 billion years - ... http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214640285/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 14:37:02 -0400 http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214640285/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Medtronic and Boston Scientific is headed for the U.S. Supreme Court, the high court announced Monday. The two patents involved cover cardiac resynchronization therapy, or CRT, which gives the heart an electrical shock when its two blood-pumping chambers, or ventricles, get out of sync with each other. Last September, a federal appeals court reversed the ruling of a federal court judge in ... http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214638500/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 13:57:47 -0400 http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214638500/scat/a9927dde6777aafc climate change may be overstated. In the study, the international team of researchers looked to see how doubling the concentrations of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and the Earth’s subsequent response would impact climate over several thousand years, a method known as climate sensitivity. The analysis used temperatures from the last decade and found that the projected increase would be ... http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214638534/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 13:56:29 -0400 http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214638534/scat/a9927dde6777aafc dogs have been used to sniff out bombs on land. Now, scientists are incorporating honeybees in the hunt for unexploded landmines in Croatia and possibly other war-ravaged countries in the Balkans. Bees have a perfect sense of smell and scientists believe that smell might save hundreds of lives if they can be trained to sniff out the odor from unexploded ordnance (UXOs). Tens of thousands of ... http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214639663/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 13:56:29 -0400 http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214639663/scat/a9927dde6777aafc /enpproperty--> Writing rosy poetry should be second nature to liberal arts students, but now Chinese science and engineering students have their own literature. On May 20, a date that in Chinese sounds similar to "I love you", the 10 most romantic love poems written by science majors nationwide were chosen from more than 600 ... http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214639664/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 13:47:51 -0400 http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214639664/scat/a9927dde6777aafc There are conflicting reports as to whether a ship tied up at Queens Wharf is part of the Chinese navy. The New Zealand Defence Force and Ports of Auckland confirmed yesterday that the Yuan Wang 6 arrived on Sunday and was a space-tracking vessel controlled by the Chinese navy. This detail was later denied by its shipping agency Cosco and omitted in statements by both the Chinese Consulate ... http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214640054/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 13:30:18 -0400 http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214640054/scat/a9927dde6777aafc CHICAGO (CBS) — A statue was unveiled at a southwest side elementary school, in honor of the space crew killed in a space shuttle disaster ten years ago, reports WBBM’s Craig Dellimore. The Columbia Explorers Academy on South Kedzie was built to honor the astronauts of the ill-fated space shuttle Columbia. To commemorate the 10th anniversary of that tragedy, Alderman Edward Burke ... http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214639248/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 13:26:43 -0400 http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214639248/scat/a9927dde6777aafc First time firing a gun? There's help at hand - a new "self-aiming" rifle can help even a novice hit the target at long range on the first go. But the technology has its critics, who see it as a serious threat to public ... http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214639665/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 13:24:08 -0400 http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214639665/scat/a9927dde6777aafc The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Monday to decide whether a New York town violated the Constitution by opening meetings with prayers that emphasized Christianity. The request for Supreme Court action in the religious expression case arises from the practice of Greece, N.Y., of opening town board meetings with a prayer, which two residents challenged as a violation of the Establishment Clause of the ... http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214638665/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 13:23:30 -0400 http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214638665/scat/a9927dde6777aafc In this historical photo from the U.S. space agency, the Sikorsky JH-19 Chickasaw was used for several purposes, including dropping research models. The Sikorsky helicopter is seen here, in March of 1965, in the middle of its NASA career, with a model of the Apollo spacecraft attached to the drop mount near the cargo door. The H-19 was later sent to the Navy's Cheatham Annex in Yorktown, ... http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214638300/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 12:51:09 -0400 http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214638300/scat/a9927dde6777aafc creationism law, the misnamed Louisiana Science Education Act (LSEA).The law allows non-science to be snuck into science classrooms by teachers who use supplemental materials to "critique" politically controversial (but not scientifically controversial) theories, ... http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214637381/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 12:44:04 -0400 http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214637381/scat/a9927dde6777aafc This stunning space wallpaper is a Landsat image of the Clearwater Lakes in Canada's Quebec province. Located to the east of the Hudson Bay, what appears to be two separate lakes is actually a single body of water that fills two depressions. The depressions were created by two meteorite impacts, believed to have hit Earth simultaneously up to 290 million years ago. The name 'Clearwater ... http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214638296/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 12:29:44 -0400 http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214638296/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Memorial Day is rapidly approaching; and here in the Northeast, that is the traditional start of summer's season of fun in the sun. For many beach communities in Long Island and New Jersey, it will include an effort to demonstrate a measure of normalcy, and a sense of recovery. In some towns that won't be possible, in some we will see a partial recovery and in still others, ... http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214638297/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 12:26:31 -0400 http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214638297/scat/a9927dde6777aafc YouTube video of Gygan Gygan, launched decades before the first home computer, was regarded as sophisticated for its day, capable of responding to spoken or light ray commands. It could pick up objects, and at its equally successful appearance at a fair at Olympia in London, it danced jerkily with a model - who clearly hadn't seen the crushed base of the tin can it had just picked up.One ... http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214637584/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 12:26:27 -0400 http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214637584/scat/a9927dde6777aafc A former army test pilot is to become the first British astronaut to visit the International Space Station. Major Tim Peake will live and work on the space station for six months in November 2015. At a news conference at the Science Museum in London, where he was announced as the first UK astronaut in space for 20 years, he said it is a great ... http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214637428/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 12:26:24 -0400 http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214637428/scat/a9927dde6777aafc An experimental stem-cell treatment has restored the sight of a man blinded by the degeneration of his retinal cells. The man, who is taking part in a trial examining the safety of using human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) to reverse two common causes of blindness, can now see well enough to be allowed to ... http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214638298/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 12:17:16 -0400 http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214638298/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Boulder County Bomb Squad's robot checks a suspicious package next to parking lot at Fairview High School in Boulder, May 20, 2013. (Mark Leffingwell/Daily ... http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214638299/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 12:14:01 -0400 http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214638299/scat/a9927dde6777aafc A "Blue Marble" image of the Earth taken from the VIIRS instrument aboard NASA's Earth-observing satellite -- Suomi NPP. This composite image uses a number of swaths of the Earth's surface taken on Jan. 4, ... http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214635804/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 11:42:57 -0400 http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214635804/scat/a9927dde6777aafc "Who invented clothes?" It's one of those brilliant questions that children ask, before they learn that the big things we wonder about rarely have simple answers. It's the kind of thing that archaeologists like me get put on the spot about when chatting to kids, and we love to have a crack at answering.Saturday's "Ask a grown up" section featured just that ... http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214636694/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 11:39:36 -0400 http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214636694/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Tornadoes tear through Texas The central United States braced for violent thunderstorms on Monday that could bring more hail, heavy rain and tornadoes to the region stricken by a deadly twister over the weekend. The National Weather Service said severe storms would likely pummel the Ozarks and the middle Mississippi Valley, with northwest Arkansas, far southeast Kansas, southern Missouri, most ... http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214635452/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 11:29:55 -0400 http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214635452/scat/a9927dde6777aafc denied their motion to overturn the Salazar decision on constitutional grounds. A tactical, piecemeal circumvention of the ban has had better luck in the bureaucracy of the U.S. Forest Service. The USFS, despite the anti-mining intent of their boss President Obama, authorized a Canadian company to dig uranium six miles from the South Rim of the Grand Canyon. ... http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214636465/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 11:27:38 -0400 http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214636465/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Alaska's Pavlof Volcano, which roared back to life on May 13, continues to send ash and steam nearly 20,000 feet into the air, just below the threshold that experts deem becomes a threat to air traffic in the region. Over the weekend, Pavlof also began spewing lava hundreds of feet into the air. The 8,262-foot-high Pavlof, which is located about 625 miles southeast of Anchorage along ... http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214635051/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 10:42:06 -0400 http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214635051/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Severe weather was the big news this past weekend. There were many tornadoes reported from Texas to Iowa and back into the Northern Plains. The tornadoes did plenty of damage and there were even some fatalities reported. These storms fired up each and every day over the weekend. The Plains also dealt with strong winds and large ... http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214635288/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 10:42:06 -0400 http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214635288/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Brad Deering (Facebook photo) A Costa Rican newspaper says a Canadian man who was killed in that country last week was the victim of a targeted attack. The Costa Rican Times says Brad Deering, a 42-year-old native of Vancouver, B.C. and a Costa Rican resident, was killed Thursday by three gunmen who police believe were attempting to rob his home in a gated community in San Jose. The paper says ... http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214634615/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 10:26:47 -0400 http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214634615/scat/a9927dde6777aafc MOST Australian adults catch two or three colds a year, and with more than 200 types of viruses potentially causing a cold, it's simply not possible to be immunised against every strain. Yet research continues to probe the cause of the cough, sneeze and runny nose in the hope of shortening the length and severity of this most common of winter ailments. Here is some of the latest research into ... http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214656382/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 10:00:00 -0400 http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214656382/scat/a9927dde6777aafc The history of crowd control reached a milestone as Boba Fett stood guard at the Sorcerer's Hat Stage. After my recent adventures in space history and space history-in-the-making, it's only fitting that I spend the third and final episode in this shameless series of work-related outings immersed in space fantasy. And seeing as how it's billed as a "trilogy," why don't I do ... http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214634293/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 09:54:01 -0400 http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214634293/scat/a9927dde6777aafc DSM 5 - was published over the weekend. Produced by the American Psychiatric Association, it describes the symptoms of a vast range of mental illnesses and is intended as a guide to diagnosis.Why should we in the UK care? Simple: the political dominance of the US means that as soon as a mental disorder is named in the DSM, that disorder becomes valid in the eyes of many.But not everyone is a fan. ... http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214633167/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 09:33:29 -0400 http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214633167/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Are quantum computers about to revolutionise our lives? You might think so now that Google has bought one from the only organisation that sells them, D-Wave of Burnaby, Canada. However, questions remain over just how D-Wave's quantum computers work and whether they would beat ordinary computers in like-on-like ... http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214633948/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 09:08:07 -0400 http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214633948/scat/a9927dde6777aafc As many as one in five children aged 3 to 17 years old experiences a mental health disorder each year, according to a new report from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ... http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214632848/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 08:08:52 -0400 http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214632848/scat/a9927dde6777aafc >Editor's note: Meg Urry is the Israel Munson professor of physics and astronomy and chairwoman of the department of physics at Yale University, where she is the director of the Yale Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics.(CNN) -- On Wednesday, NASA officials announced a serious problem with the Kepler satellite, the world's most successful planet-finding machine. Since its launch four years ... http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214633942/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 07:45:02 -0400 http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214633942/scat/a9927dde6777aafc New York City seems alien enough to many of its visitors, but imagine how strange it would look if whisked away to another planet. A new art project does just that, transplanting the Big Apple to ... http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214631719/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 07:41:11 -0400 http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214631719/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Saturn's atmosphere is similar to that of Jupiter. Again, NYC is shown at about 62 miles above a layer of liquid hydrogen and helium, amid clouds of ammonia ice with occasional thunderstorms. As with Jupiter, atmospheric gases are highly reducing and would slowly dissolve any metal oxide surface, like the green patina that covers the Statue of ... http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214631720/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 07:41:10 -0400 http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214631720/scat/a9927dde6777aafc One of the key elements to understanding the proliferation of life on Earth is modeling how electron transfer - the passage of an electron from one element to another - can be catalyzed. But the environmental conditions on Earth some 3 billion years ago were much different than they are today. For one, there was a distinct lack of molecular oxygen in the atmosphere, because it is readily ... http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214631715/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 07:40:06 -0400 http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214631715/scat/a9927dde6777aafc redOrbit Staff & Wire Reports – Your Universe Online Researchers from the University of Hawaii at Manoa and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution are looking to events of the past to better understand how rainfall patterns across the Indo-Pacific warm pool - the massive pool of warm water stretching along the equator from Africa to the western Pacific Ocean - will change due ... http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214631716/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 07:40:05 -0400 http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214631716/scat/a9927dde6777aafc 20 May 2013 A former Army test pilot is to become the first British astronaut to visit the International Space Station (ISS) - and says it will be less dangerous than his old ... http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214631717/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 07:30:49 -0400 http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214631717/scat/a9927dde6777aafc (Image: USGS/ESA) "I'VE a feeling we're not in Kansas any more." Indeed not, we are 700 kilometres above Kansas, looking down from the venerable Landsat 5 satellite. What you can see is how huge swathes of the state have been given over to agriculture. It ain't known as the nation's breadbasket for ... http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214631724/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 07:20:27 -0400 http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214631724/scat/a9927dde6777aafc WAM ABU DHABI, 20th May, 2013 (WAM) -- The Secretary General of the OIC, Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, has cautioned that the future of science in the OIC Member States would depend on their ability to address the practical challenges of scientific development and take the right policy decisions to fully exploit technology's development potential. In a public lecture organized by the New York ... http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214630880/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 07:07:12 -0400 http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214630880/scat/a9927dde6777aafc North Korean leader Kim Jong-un applauds with children uring a visit to the Pyongyang Myohyangsan Children's Camp, situated at the foot of Mt. Myohyang in North Phyongan Province, in this photo released by North Korea's Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on May 20, 2013. ... http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214629233/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 06:29:27 -0400 http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214629233/scat/a9927dde6777aafc CERN Council European Strategy Group (our draft strategy will hopefully be adopted in Brussels next week). So we both had things to say about each others topic.I know from experience that applying for, and spending, EU research funds used to be very bureaucratic and arguably not worth the effort. Most initiatives were not primarily targetted at research excellence, but at training, or at ... http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214629272/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 06:22:22 -0400 http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214629272/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Taiwan's national space programme offered Wednesday its satellite images of the damage caused by powerful tsunamis that ravaged Asia at the weekend to affected countries and aid groups for free.The National Space Programme Office (NSPO) normally charges 3,000 euros (4,080 dollars) for each photograph covering an area of 600 square kilometres (240 square miles), the office said.The images ... http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214629831/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 06:15:51 -0400 http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214629831/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Russia will ask the United States to contribute more toward the costs of flying US astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS), a spokesman for the Russian space agency said Thursday.Roskomos spokesman Vyacheslav Davydenko told AFP that since the US space shuttles stopped supplying the jointly manned station in the wake of the February 2003 Columbia disaster Russia had been shouldering ... http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214629860/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 06:15:51 -0400 http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214629860/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Consciousness: The what, why and how " THE first time I saw my father in hospital after his stroke, I was disturbed to find that my strong and confident dad had been replaced by someone confused and childlike. Besides being concerned about whether or not he would recover, I was struck by the profound metaphysical implications of what had just happened. At the time I was a few weeks away from ... http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214629071/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 05:21:09 -0400 http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214629071/scat/a9927dde6777aafc An Africa-wide forum for parliamentarians which aims to give science, technology and innovation a more central role in the policy-making process was launched this ... http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214628605/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 05:16:21 -0400 http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214628605/scat/a9927dde6777aafc .Speaking at a rehearsal studio in west London today, Stewart said the secret of the record's success was that it drew on his long experience of life."I'm over the moon, absolutely over the moon. It's a long time in between but it's always worth waiting for," he said"I've lived a wonderful life and when I was putting the book together it inspired many of ... http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214628104/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 04:47:45 -0400 http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214628104/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Russian space officials announced that a capsule containing mice and lizards has returned to Earth, but most of them died during their time in space, according to media reports Monday. The Bion-M capsule, carrying 45 mice, 15 newts, snails, lizards, plants, microflora, and eight gerbils, landed softly in the Orenburg Region, about 1,200 km southeast of Moscow, but majority of the mice and newts ... http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214627830/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 04:46:03 -0400 http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214627830/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Billboard Calls for Sen. McCain to 'Get Serious' About Reducing the Threat of Nuclear Weapons WASHINGTON - August 19 - Northwest, the official airline of the Republican National Convention, has taken on a new role of censor. Yesterday it asked Clear Channel Communications to remove a Union of Concerned Scientists' (UCS) anti-nuclear-weapons billboard in the Minneapolis airport ... http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214626890/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 04:21:07 -0400 http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214626890/scat/a9927dde6777aafc CSPI Investigation Reveals Kids' Meals at Restaurants Usually Too High in Calories, and Good Options Hard to Find WASHINGTON - August 4 - Nearly every single possible combination of the children's meals at KFC, Taco Bell, Sonic, Jack in the Box, and Chick-fil-A is too high in calories, according to the nonprofit Center for Science in the Public Interest, which today released the ... http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214627575/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 04:20:47 -0400 http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214627575/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff on Friday expressed the wish to speed up her country's space cooperation with Ukraine. Speaking by phone earlier in the day, Rousseff and her Ukrainian counterpart Viktor Yanukovych discussed bilateral cooperation, especially on the space sector. Brazil and Ukraine are partners in Alcantara Cyclon Space (ACS), a company which is preparing for the launch ... http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214628106/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 04:17:16 -0400 http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214628106/scat/a9927dde6777aafc The era of a space dominated by the U.S. and Russia is gone. Even when they have preserved their leadership in space exploration, they face a growing competition from other states, primarily from China. That conclusion is stated in a report prepared by Futron research company (USA). For five years Futron has been composing an index of competitive position of various participants of space ... http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214628107/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 04:17:10 -0400 http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214628107/scat/a9927dde6777aafc British crossover style performer Sarah Brightman announced here Wednesday her intention to become the next paying passenger to the International Space Station (ISS). "I am planning to become a space flight participant," Brightman told a press conference, after receiving the approval from a medical commission for training at Russia's Cosmonaut Training Center in July. Ahead of the ... http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214628108/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 04:17:08 -0400 http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214628108/scat/a9927dde6777aafc SpaceX's unmanned Dragon capsule docked with the International Space Station (ISS) on Wednesday morning to make the first-ever commercial cargo delivery to the orbiting lab. According to U.S. space agency NASA, Dragon was captured by station crew using Canadarm2 robotic arm and installed to the station's docking port on the Earth-facing side of the Harmony node at 9:03 a.m. EDT (1303 ... http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214628109/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 04:17:07 -0400 http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214628109/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Quantico, Va. (Photo courtesy FBI) Two FBI special agents were killed during a training exercise off the coast of Virginia Beach, Va., on Friday, the agency said in a statement released Sunday. Special agents Christopher Lorek, 41, and Stephen Shaw, 40, were part of the elite Hostage Rescue Team, which is part of the Critical Incident Response Group, and is based in Quantico, Va. Details of the ... http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214628110/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 04:16:18 -0400 http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214628110/scat/a9927dde6777aafc dinosaurs , it's only when the latter became extinct that they really expanded and dominated. So we would not expect to find for example, the skull of an ungulate alongside bits of non-avian dinosaur bones. So when these claims are made, do they challenge accepted theory of the temporal distributions of life on earth or is something else at work? While certainly we would not expect such ... http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214626640/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 03:53:03 -0400 http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214626640/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Why would anyone choose to reinvest in a form of power that seems not to have been harnessed properly? At Chernobyl and Fukushima the world had two very close shaves. Not a very impressive safety record for a technology that has been pampered with billions of dollars of investment over 60 ... http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214626633/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 03:39:36 -0400 http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214626633/scat/a9927dde6777aafc A letter in which Albert Einstein dismissed the idea of God as a product of human weakness is being sold on eBay for a starting price of $3 million. The letter, handwritten in 1954, a year before Einstein's death, was addressed to philosopher Eric Gutkind. In it, Einstein discussed his views on religion, including calling "the Bible a collection of honorable but still primitive legends ... http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214625902/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 02:31:42 -0400 http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214625902/scat/a9927dde6777aafc India is planning to launch 58 space missions, including sending spacecraft to Moon and Mars, an exclusive satellite to keep a round-the-clock watch on the country and deploy hundreds of transponders in the next five years, reported Press Trust of India on Sunday. The India Space Research Organization also aims to deploy its own version of the Global Positioning System by putting into orbit a ... http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214625901/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 02:31:42 -0400 http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214625901/scat/a9927dde6777aafc The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency said Thursday it has decided to postpone an experiment to release satellites from the International Space Station (ISS) due to approaching space debris. The experiment planned for the early hours of Friday is scheduled to launch five small satellites provided by the Fukuoka Institute of Technology and Tohoku University. The looming space debris may require ... http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214625903/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 02:31:38 -0400 http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214625903/scat/a9927dde6777aafc In this Monday, Sept. 24, 2012 photo, Dr. Phillip Epstein, left, and Steve Landers of the National Museum of Health and Medicine Chicago talk about the new iPad app being released Tuesday, Sept. 25 that allows users to see Albert Einstein's brain as if they were looking through a microscope. ... http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214625904/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 02:31:37 -0400 http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214625904/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Japan's southwestern Fukuoka Prefecture is planning to lease roof space at schools for solar panels with an aim to widely develop solar power generation, local press reported Tuesday. The new plan came after a new feed-in-tariff scheme for renewable energy started in the country this summer and was the first of its kind pushed by a local government in southwestern Japan. According to the ... http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214625905/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 02:31:36 -0400 http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214625905/scat/a9927dde6777aafc China and the 10 members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) have launched a plan that will see them cooperate in fields of science and technology. More than 300 entrepreneurs and scholars from China and ASEAN countries attended a launch ceremony on Saturday in Nanning, capital of south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, on the sidelines of the ninth China-ASEAN ... http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214625906/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 02:31:35 -0400 http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214625906/scat/a9927dde6777aafc A private capsule is scheduled to fly to the International Space Station on a cargo mission on Oct. 7, U.S. space agency NASA announced Thursday. The SpaceX's robotic Dragon spacecraft is set to blast off atop the company's Falcon 9 rocket from Florida's Cape Canaveral Air Force Station at 8:34 p.m. EDT on Oct. 7 (0034 Oct. 8 GMT). This will be the first of 12 contracted flights ... http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214625907/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 02:31:32 -0400 http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214625907/scat/a9927dde6777aafc HOUSTON, Sept. 19 (Xinhua) -- Thousands of space fans in the U.S. city of Houston cheered space shuttle Endeavor Wednesday as the United States' last retired shuttle circled overhead and landed in the city. Riding piggyback on a modified Boeing 747, Endeavor landed Wednesday morning in Houston's Ellington Field, after a five-hour flight from Florida's Kennedy Space Center. An ... http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214625908/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 02:31:30 -0400 http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214625908/scat/a9927dde6777aafc A Russian Soyuz capsule landed on the Kazakh steppe on Monday, delivering a trio of astronauts from a four-month stint on the International Space Station. The capsule, carrying US astronaut Joseph Acaba and Russian cosmonauts Gennady Padalka and Sergei Revin, parachuted through a blue sky and touched down in a cloud of dust as its soft landing engines ignited at 8.53 local time (2.53 GMT). ... http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214625910/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 02:31:26 -0400 http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214625910/scat/a9927dde6777aafc This photo provided by NASA shows space shuttle Endeavour atop NASA's Shuttle Carrier Aircraft, or SCA, at the Shuttle Landing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center on Monday, Sept. 17, 2012 in Cape Canaveral, Fla. ... http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214625909/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 02:31:26 -0400 http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214625909/scat/a9927dde6777aafc They say great minds think alike -- but that's the last thing Bai Chunli wants. As president of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, he says what the country's scientific community needs most is diversity, not uniformity. "When we say someone is trying to do things in an unorthodox way, it's usually derogatory," the 58-year-old chemist said. "But in terms of scientific ... http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214625911/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 02:31:25 -0400 http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214625911/scat/a9927dde6777aafc WELLINGTON, Sept. 14 (Xinhua) -- A New Zealand government-led science delegation will head to the United States on Sunday to promote scientific collaboration between the two countries. Science and Innovation Minister Steven Joyce will lead the delegation to attend the New Zealand-United States Joint Commission on Science and Technology Cooperation which aims to promote collaboration in policy ... http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214625912/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 02:31:22 -0400 http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214625912/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Astronauts on the International Space Station bade farewell to a Japanese cargo ship today (Sept. 12), ending Japan's latest delivery flight to the orbiting lab. Japan's unmanned H-2 Transfer Vehicle 3 (HTV-3) left the space station at 11:50 a.m. EDT (1350 GMT) after station astronauts used a robotic arm to detach the spacecraft from its docking port and set it free. The orbiting ... http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214625913/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 02:31:21 -0400 http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214625913/scat/a9927dde6777aafc MOSCOW, Sept. 11 (Xinhua) -- Russia must develop clear goals for its space program in order to pull its space industry out of the currently unhealthy state, Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin said Tuesday. "Russia must formulate what it wants from space," Rogozin told the state-run Moscow radio, stressing a string of recent accidents with rocket launches were due to lack of clear ... http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214625914/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 02:31:19 -0400 http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214625914/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Vladimir Sychov, deputy director of the Institute of Medical and Biological Problems and the lead researcher for the Bion-M project, talks to reporters Sunday while others examine the "space ark" capsule in the ... http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214624931/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 02:10:40 -0400 http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214624931/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Phil Lindsey, Discover Science Place CEO, will be interviewed this week on the Tyler Chamber Radio show.Discover Science Place is offering Summer Camps, where children can explore, design and create using cutting-edge technology and innovation. There is a different camp each week from June 24 through Aug. 16 and children in kindergarten through eighth grade can attend. Age of the Dinosaur, an ... http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214624932/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 01:47:15 -0400 http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214624932/scat/a9927dde6777aafc The British space industry is being given a boost with confirmation that Britain's first official astronaut is to take part in a mission on the International Space Station in 2015. Major Tim Peake has undergone 14 months of rigorous training, which has included survival courses and exercises under water and underground. Now almost three years after graduating as an astronaut, the ... http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214623950/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 01:07:08 -0400 http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214623950/scat/a9927dde6777aafc