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Arctic sea ice shrinks to 2nd lowest level in 30 years
Arctic sea ice has seen its second largest summer shrinkage due to the effects of global warming since satellite observations began 30 years ago.
Source : xinhua | 28-Aug-2008 06:59

NASA: Laptops aboard ISS infected with virus
NASA has confirmed that astronauts unwittingly brought laptops aboard ISS that were infected with virus.
Source : xinhua | 28-Aug-2008 03:16

Experts warn of careless use of soil
Experts warned of the careless use of soil, saying not only crude oil and food, but also the soil on our planet would be in short supply.
Source : xinhua | 27-Aug-2008 21:00

Hewlett-Packard completes purchase of Electronic Data Systems
Hewlett-Packard (HP) has completed its purchase of Electronic Data Systems (EDS), the computer giant's biggest acquisition since HP bought Compaq for nearly 20 billion dollars in 2002, it was reported on Wednesday.
Source : xinhua | 27-Aug-2008 19:41

Australian scientists find Australia largely untouched by humans
Australian scientists have found that the continent is one of the world's top five wilderness havens, ranking alongside the Amazon forest and the Sahara desert.
Source : xinhua | 27-Aug-2008 09:56

U.S. Mars rover Opportunity climbing out of big crater
NASA's Mars rover Opportunity is heading back out to the Red Planet's surrounding plains nearly a year after descending into a large Martian crater to examine exposed ancient rock layers.
Source : xinhua | 27-Aug-2008 03:19

Adobe unveils new Web-based products
Adobe Systems on Tuesday unveiled updated versions of its desktop photo and video editing products, combined with a sharing and storage service that users can access on the Web. Photoshop Elements 7 will include membership in an online service called Photoshop.com.
Source : xinhua | 26-Aug-2008 19:32

Microsoft details 3 browsing privacy tools
Microsoft Corp. on Monday detailed three new privacy features in the upcoming Internet Explorer 8.
Source : xinhua | 26-Aug-2008 07:13

Study: Cattle, deer have "6th sense"

Grazing cattle and sleeping deer tend to align their bodies in the north-south direction of Earth's magnetic lines, European researchers said in a study in Tuesday's issue of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Source : xinhua | 26-Aug-2008 04:45

Verizon in talks with Google on mobile search deal
Verizon Communications and Google are in discussion over a mobile search partnership that would make Google the default search engine on all Verizon phones.
Source : xinhua | 25-Aug-2008 08:39

Tired of travel? Book a "Napcab"
The "Napcabs" were developed by five students participating in the 2007 Innovation Competition held by Munich University of Applied Sciences, for travellers to spend their airport transfer times as pleasantly as possible. To book the cabins cost 15 euros for the first 15 minutes and four euros for every next quarter of an hour. One nights stay from 10pm to 7am costs 60 euros.
Source : xinhua | 23-Aug-2008 02:26

NASA destroys rocket after launch failure
NASA destroyed a rocket carrying two hypersonic experiments shortly after its failed liftoff from the Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia early Friday, the U.S. space agency reported.
Source : xinhua | 23-Aug-2008 01:15

Apple launches 3G iPhone in India

Apple launched its most awaited "iPhone 3G" at the minute past midnight on Friday for the Indian market. One of the key attractions of the latest iPhone is its faster, third-generation (3G) Web connections when compared with the first iPhone that was launched in mid-2007.
Source : xinhua | 22-Aug-2008 05:10

New software developed for deaf, hard-of-hearing

Source : xinhua | 22-Aug-2008 00:16

American Air offers in-flight Internet service on 3 routes

American Airlines launched its inflight Internet service on three long-haul domestic routes on Wednesday, a move seen as an effort to gain a competitive edge in the troubled airline industry. The service will be offered on nonstop flights between New York and San Francisco, New York and Los Angeles, and New York and Miami.
Source : xinhua | 21-Aug-2008 05:08

Report: Iran to send first astronaut to space in ten years
TEHRAN, Aug. 20 (Xinhua) -- Iranian Space Organization ...
Source : xinhua | 20-Aug-2008 17:17

Google rallies support for free wireless spectrum

Google on Monday launched a website FreetheAirwaves.com, as part of a campaign to rally support for its plan to open underutilized portions of the television broadcast spectrum for high-speed wireless Internet networking.
Source : xinhua | 19-Aug-2008 03:04

World's newest species flies in forest of Gabon
A red-breasted robin living in the forests of Gabon has become the world's newest species discovered by humans, according to media reports Sunday quoting a study in the journal Zootaxa.
Source : xinhua | 18-Aug-2008 03:11

Califoria to build world's biggest solar power plants
California's largest utility company has signed deals to build the world's two biggest solar plants that would supply electricity to 250,000 homes.
Source : xinhua | 16-Aug-2008 02:51

U.S. scientists discover new bird species in Gabon
Scientists at the U.S. Smithsonian Institution have discovered a new species of bird in African country Gabon, that was, until now, unknown to the scientific community, according to the international science journal Zootaxa published Friday.
Source : xinhua | 15-Aug-2008 23:08

Ariane-5 launches two communication satellites in French Guiana
PARIS, Aug. 14 (Xinhua) -- The Ariane-5 rocket took off at ...
Source : xinhua | 15-Aug-2008 10:50

Partial elipse to test China's lunar probe
TIANJIN, Aug. 15 (Xinhua) -- China's first lunar probe ...
Source : xinhua | 15-Aug-2008 09:31

World's largest solar power plants slated for Calif.
Two companies will build "milestone" solar power plants in Central California, according to media reports Thursday.
Source : xinhua | 15-Aug-2008 04:05

Study: Mt. Kilimanjaro snow cap may not go
An English university study has suggested that the snow cap on Mount Kilimanjaro may not disappear by 2020 or 2030 as had been claimed previously.
Source : xinhua | 14-Aug-2008 09:22

U.S. biotech company rejects Swiss buyoff bid
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 13 (Xinhua) -- Genentech rejected on ...
Source : xinhua | 13-Aug-2008 19:51

Internet scams growing rapidly in U.S.
U.S. state and federal officials are scrambling to deal with a rising tide of spam, according to data published on Wednesday. In 2007, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) reported 221,226 Internet-related fraud complaints in the United States.
Source : xinhua | 13-Aug-2008 19:39

U.S. underwater robot completes 1st seafloor survey mission
The newly-developed underwater robot Sentry has successfully completed its first scientific mission, the U.S. National Science Foundation reported on Wednesday.
Source : xinhua | 13-Aug-2008 17:56

Cassini begins transmitting data from Enceladus flyby
The Cassini spacecraft on Tuesday began sending data to Earth following Monday's close flyby of Saturn's moon Enceladus, the U.S. space agency NASA reported. • NASA extends Cassini's probe of Saturn's moons
Source : xinhua | 12-Aug-2008 22:39

EU deploys 1st sea glider in Arctic ocean
A sea glider was deployed in the Arctic Ocean in ice-free area for the first time with Chinese icebreaker RV Xuelong.
Source : xinhua | 12-Aug-2008 11:01

Study: elephant matriarchs' memories source of survival
Patterns of calf mortality revealed elephant matriarchs to remember life-sustaining sources that could be key to the survival of their family groups.
Source : xinhua | 12-Aug-2008 09:36

Hubble's 100,000th Earth orbit marked
Circling the Earth at nearly eight km per second since its launch in April 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope passed the 100,000-orbit mark on Monday, according to NASA.
Source : xinhua | 12-Aug-2008 09:35

Hubble unveils colorful star birth region on 100,000th orbit
In commemoration of Hubble space telescope completing its 100,000th orbit around the Earth during its 18th year of exploration and discovery, scientists aimed Hubble to take a snapshot of a dazzling region of celestial birth and renewal.
Source : xinhua | 11-Aug-2008 22:55

China to host int'l advanced materials summit
Tianjin in north China will host the second international advanced materials summit from Oct. 30 to Nov. 1 to boost the domestic industry development.
Source : xinhua | 11-Aug-2008 14:49

China's first transgenic cow born to help fight cancer
Chinese scientists announced on Monday that they have bred a genetically altered cow capable of producing cancer fighting proteins for humans.
Source : xinhua | 11-Aug-2008 10:33

21 U.S. cities to measure carbon footprints
Some 13,000 companies in 21 U.S. cities, including Denver, Las Vegas and New York, are measuring their carbon footprints.
Source : xinhua | 11-Aug-2008 06:17

U.S. scientists one step closer to cloaking device
U.S. scientists are getting closer to engineering material that could make three-dimensional objects invisible to the human eye, though they're nowhere close to duplicating the "cloaking device" used by alien Klingons in "Star Trek," according to media reports Monday.
Source : xinhua | 11-Aug-2008 05:46

Nigeria determined to become aviation hub in Africa
LAGOS, Aug. 10 (Xinhua) -- Nigeria will not lose its bid to ...
Source : xinhua | 10-Aug-2008 09:31

Olympic opening ceremony combines technology, originality
With huge LED screens, eye-catching lighting systems and multimedia video shows, one of the hallmarks of the Games' opening ceremony was its use of cutting-edge technology. This was thanks to the efforts of Yu Jianping, director of the technology group for the opening ceremony, who led a 500-strong team of experts.
Source : xinhua | 10-Aug-2008 06:32

Study: early planet formation violent
Planetary formation in the first few million years is a violent tug of war with planets fighting to feed on gas and dust while tugging at each other with gravitational arms.
Source : xinhua | 08-Aug-2008 04:26

New tech reveals fingerprint's chemical makeup
Researchers have developed a new technique for analyzing fingerprints that reveals, in high detail, the chemical compounds that make up the print.
Source : xinhua | 08-Aug-2008 03:16

Netcom offers historic Olympic hi-tech
China Netcom has developed eight innovations in digital communications used for the first time at the "hi-tech Olympics". An ASON-based intelligent optical transmission network is in use for the first time to improve the quality and security of the video transmission and special services for the Games
Source : xinhua | 08-Aug-2008 02:55

World's first "human eye" camera created in U.S.
U.S. researchers have created the world's first "human eye" camera that could revolutionise photography. Experiments already under way are testing other potential applications.
Source : xinhua | 07-Aug-2008 04:49

Dell makes all facilities worldwide carbon neutral

Dell goes green by making all its facilities worldwide carbon neutral, meeting its biggest and latest environmental goal as pledged earlier to do so by the end of 2008. It is also making additional investments in wind power in the United States, China and India.
Source : xinhua | 07-Aug-2008 03:49

111-year-old reptile soon to be proud pappa
An 111-year-old New Zealand indigenous reptile thought to be one of the last living remnants of the dinosaurs will soon become a proud pappa for the first time in decades.
Source : xinhua | 06-Aug-2008 11:07

NASA mission: Mars soil may contain perchlorate
Analysis of recent soil samples taken by of Phoenix lander's from Mars has found possible traces of perchlorate, a highly oxidizing substance.However, the mission team noted that further investigation is still needed to confirm the presence of perchlorate salts.
Source : xinhua | 06-Aug-2008 07:31

Revised tally shows less support for Yahoo's board
People walk past Yahoo! offices in Santa ...
Source : xinhua | 06-Aug-2008 07:06