Provides the latest RSS feeds for Science News. For more headlines on Breaking, National, Business, Finance, Sports and World News, visit our home page India Gazette.com http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/cat/a9927dde6777aafc/ en-us Tue, 21 May 2013 16:59:46 -0400 Tue, 21 May 2013 16:59:46 -0400 30 Michelle Keegan, who was awarded Cleavage Of The Year by The Sun earlier this year, has said that she is embarrassed by her cleavage and struggles to understand her sex symbol status. The 25-year-old actress told new! magazine that it was embarrassing but also flattering, the Mirror reported. She said that she didn't wear tops that show her cleavage much, asserting that her mother joked about ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214659401/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Tue, 21 May 2013 07:30:04 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214659401/scat/a9927dde6777aafc 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.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214654792/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Tue, 21 May 2013 01:50:04 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214654792/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Gary Goodyear, Minister of State (Science and Technology). Andre Forget/QMI Agency OTTAWA - Canada gets a B- average when it comes to being at the forefront of science and technology innovation, according to a new report. In fact, the government advisory body that released Tuesday's report says as a nation - despite brimming with talent - we "continue to tread water as a mid-level ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214669739/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Tue, 21 May 2013 15:38:12 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214669739/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Richard Bain said he didn't want Pauline Marois to speak on election night MONTREAL - Accused separatist rally shooter Richard Henry Bain waived his preliminary hearing Tuesday and was ordered to stand trial for murder. The 62-year-old fishing lodge owner is accused of murdering stage technician Denis Blanchette outside a Parti Quebecois rally on Sept. 4. Premier Pauline Marois was inside ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214669438/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Tue, 21 May 2013 15:38:09 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214669438/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Geo, a little boy killed when an SUV crashed into the busy patio of Rics Grill, at 23 Avenue and Rabbit Hill Road the evening of Sunday, May 19. (IAN KUCERAK/QMI Agency) EDMONTON - The grief-stricken mother of a two-year-old boy who was killed Sunday when an alleged drunk driver crashed into him on a restaurant patio had a meltdown at the courthouse Tuesday. After the accused's first court ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214669439/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Tue, 21 May 2013 15:38:08 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214669439/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Time-lapse photo mosaic of Curiosity’s Cumberland drilling operation, showing what appears to be a disembodied arm shifting places. It’s actually just the rover doing its job ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214669462/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Tue, 21 May 2013 15:33:04 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214669462/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Cannes Film Festival 2013 The company has committed to a multi-million dollar guarantee and will spend a minimum $25 million on marketing the release. Developed by Reeves ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214669536/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Tue, 21 May 2013 15:29:03 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214669536/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Ralph's Killer Muenster , players use the science of genetics to restore the killer cheese to its former edible state. It's all in a bid to make medical innovation enticing and accessible to youngsters. It's kind of a San Francisco thing. "It had to be something that felt relevant to this area," says Josh Rogers, the head of marketing and advertising at Ideo. "And ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214669595/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Tue, 21 May 2013 15:27:44 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214669595/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Snapping a picture with a camera that doesn't exist is pretty spooky, but doing it in stereo is doubly so. A strange kind of photography known as ghost imaging has been extended to work in three ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214670515/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Tue, 21 May 2013 15:19:49 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214670515/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Are you bad at sums? Never remember your times tables? Now you can simply zap your brain with a pulse of electricity to make mental arithmetic a whole lot ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214669518/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Tue, 21 May 2013 15:19:48 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214669518/scat/a9927dde6777aafc lifelogger . It keeps track of the user's location and surroundings, taking low-resolution pictures several times a minute, and collects the information from the biosensor over a Bluetooth ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214670516/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Tue, 21 May 2013 15:19:47 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214670516/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Got a memory like a fish? The first study to visualise live memory retrieval in the whole brain has not only debunked the "three-second memory" myth, but also sheds light on the brain processes involved in forming long-term ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214670517/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Tue, 21 May 2013 15:19:46 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214670517/scat/a9927dde6777aafc , the eyes of many nations are turning north. This week, the eight member states of the Arctic Council decided at their meeting in Kiruna, Sweden, to admit six non-Arctic nations as observers, most notably China. New Scientist examines the ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214669691/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Tue, 21 May 2013 15:19:45 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214669691/scat/a9927dde6777aafc , psychologist Graduation season is upon us and that means a slew of uplifting commencement speeches trying to motivate young adults to greatness. Science and experience tell us that everyone is motivated differently, so how do speakers, coaches and business managers inspire ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214668994/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Tue, 21 May 2013 14:41:06 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214668994/scat/a9927dde6777aafc The beginnings of Monday's disastrous tornado in Oklahoma were caught from space by a weather satellite in orbit.The GOES-13 satellite, which is operated by NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), imaged the movement of storm systems in the south-central United States between Sunday and Monday, including the storm that sparked ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214668624/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Tue, 21 May 2013 14:40:14 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214668624/scat/a9927dde6777aafc The Knotty Pine at 1765 W. Third Ave. in Grandview Heights will undergo improvements and become the third Rude Dog Bar & Grill. The Knotty Pine has gone to the dogs. The site of the long-time Grandview Heights area restaurant will become the Rude Dog Bar and Grill. The restaurant at 1765 W. Third Ave. fell into receivership last year and then closed. It was acquired by 1765 West Third Avenue ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214668981/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Tue, 21 May 2013 14:18:35 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214668981/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Radley Horton of Columbia University in New York and colleagues have now calculated the net effect. They matched daily temperature data for Manhattan with death rates between 1982 and 1999 to estimate how sensitive the city's population is to temperatures, then used future temperature forecasts to estimate future death rates. In all their 16 models, temperature-related deaths increased ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214668977/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Tue, 21 May 2013 14:16:31 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214668977/scat/a9927dde6777aafc A camera on board NASA's Aqua spacecraft captured Oklahoma from more than 400 miles up at 2:40 pm local time yesterday, the same time the tornado warnings went out. Sixteen minutes later, the tornado touched down outside of Newcastle, and from there proceeded eastward through the heart of Moore. The red line shows the tornado's path. Lawton and the Red River (the boundary between ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214668996/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Tue, 21 May 2013 14:14:11 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214668996/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Science has been a black hole for taxpayers' money. Governments of all stripes agree that science is something they should fund without knowing very much about it. They maintain Crown research institutes for the needs of primary industries and for studying the country's weather, geology, minerals and the like. They also fund research in universities and hospitals with few questions ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214668339/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Tue, 21 May 2013 13:30:00 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214668339/scat/a9927dde6777aafc ABU DHABI // When Majid Al Qassimi landed his first job, at Al Ain Zoo in 2011, one word came into his mind - "jackpot". To young Emiratis more used to seeking high-paid government positions, his reaction might seem strange but, for Mr Al Qassimi, the job was perfect as it enabled him to use the veterinary medicine degree he earned from years of study in Britain and Hungary. It also ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214667236/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Tue, 21 May 2013 13:28:13 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214667236/scat/a9927dde6777aafc TERC , a not-for-profit group based in Cambridge, Mass., has announced the start of online voting to select a winner for its third annual Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (IGERT) ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214667237/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Tue, 21 May 2013 13:24:56 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214667237/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Sauer Inc. of Jacksonville has won a $6.5 million NASA task order to renovate the B-2 space rocket test stand at Stennis Space Center in Mississippi. Sauer expects to break ground in late spring and complete the project in 10 months, the company said in a news release. The B-2 Test Stand at Stennis was originally built to test Saturn rocket stages that propelled astronauts to the moon, NASA said ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214668755/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Tue, 21 May 2013 13:24:31 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214668755/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Laura Fernee, 33, says she is too pretty to work. (Video screenshot) A London woman has made headlines after going public with her decision to quit her job because she's too attractive. Laura ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214664987/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Tue, 21 May 2013 13:04:43 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214664987/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Diego Hernandez. (Handout) Family members of a Vancouver-area man living in Mexico have reached out to media after he went missing in Puerta Vallarta because they believe he's been kidnapped. Diego Hernandez, 22, and his American business partner Craig Silva, 31, disappeared on May 8 from the resort town, Vancouver media reported. Hernandez, a Canadian citizen, had recently staged a ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214665850/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Tue, 21 May 2013 13:04:42 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214665850/scat/a9927dde6777aafc A train derailed near Jansen, Sask. Tuesday morning and crude oil appears to be leaking from one of the cars, police say. (QMI Agency) CALGARY - Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd said five tankers containing oil derailed on Tuesday morning near Jansen, Saskatchewan, and one of the cars is leaking crude, the third spill for the company in two months. Ed Greenberg, a spokesman for ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214665851/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Tue, 21 May 2013 13:04:40 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214665851/scat/a9927dde6777aafc tornado roared through the suburbs of Oklahoma City on Monday, destroying entire neighborhoods and leveling an elementary school, according to the Associated Press. ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214666709/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Tue, 21 May 2013 13:01:34 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214666709/scat/a9927dde6777aafc , words that speak of a delicate sensibility and an ephemeral existence. Viewing the retrospective currently being hosted at the Musee Tomo in Tokyo’s central Toranomon district in celebration of the 100th birthday of Toko Shinoda, the first word that comes to mind is ';power.'; The power is observed in the elements that constitute Shinoda’s paintings — the strength ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214665484/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Tue, 21 May 2013 12:54:21 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214665484/scat/a9927dde6777aafc The tornado that ripped through Moore, a suburb of Oklahoma City, on Monday was not a record-breaker in terms of its size, strength or duration. So why was it so ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214666731/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Tue, 21 May 2013 12:46:19 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214666731/scat/a9927dde6777aafc fossil skulls - but these are the first copies of real human hearts. Constructed from plastic, they are exact anatomical replicas of the hearts of patients with unusual complications. This one is being held ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214665577/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Tue, 21 May 2013 12:46:13 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214665577/scat/a9927dde6777aafc ORLANDO - 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 girl.By late Monday afternoon, almost 100,000 people had signed ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214666897/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Tue, 21 May 2013 12:44:18 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214666897/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Jodi Arias stands and looks as the jury is excused for the lunch break during her trial at Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix, April 4, 2013. Arias is on trial for the killing of her boyfriend Travis Alexander in 2008. (REUTERS/David Wallace/The Arizona ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214667238/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Tue, 21 May 2013 12:38:12 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214667238/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Darwin's 'lost' fossils found A scientist has discovered an extinct lobster-like creature that lived off the coast of B.C. and has named it after Johnny Depp in honour of its scissor-like claws. The fossil, dubbed Kooteninchela deppi by Imperial College London researcher David Legg, is believed to be 505 million years old. "When I first saw the pair of isolated claws in the ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214667239/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Tue, 21 May 2013 12:38:10 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214667239/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Toronto Mayor Rob Ford. (STAN BEHAL/QMI Agency) Councillors are expected to hammer the final nail in the coffin of the downtown casino Tuesday. A special council meeting to debate the casino issue will start at 9:30 a.m. While a downtown casino has been declared "dead" by even those who were pro-casino, a spirited debate is expected over whether council will support a gaming expansion ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214667240/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Tue, 21 May 2013 12:38:09 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214667240/scat/a9927dde6777aafc A stent is a tiny mesh tube implanted during an angioplasty procedure improve blood flow. A Hong Kong-based medical device manufacturer thats been accusing Boston Scientific Corp. (NYSE:BSX) of patent infringement since at least 2009 upped the ante last week, seizing more than 190 heart stents from a BSX site in Germany with the help of police. OrbusNeich Medical Inc., which has U.S. offices in ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214665357/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Tue, 21 May 2013 12:24:51 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214665357/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Tue May 21, 2013 12:18pm EDT * Children found alive in destroyed school * Thunder and lightning slows rescue work * Tornado death toll lowered to 24 from 51 (Updates number of children killed, adds Tuesday storm forecast, new quotes) By Carey Gillam and Ian Simpson MOORE, Okla., May 21 (Reuters) - Emergency workers pulled more than 100 survivors from the rubble of homes, schools and a hospital ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214666712/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Tue, 21 May 2013 12:18:40 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214666712/scat/a9927dde6777aafc A Comparative Climatology Symposium held at NASA Headquarters on May 7 focused on new approaches to climate research by highlighting the similarities and contrasts between the environments of the rocky worlds Venus, Earth, Mars and Saturn’s smoggy moon Titan. The symposium also included discussions ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214664789/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Tue, 21 May 2013 12:13:40 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214664789/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Stephan Lautenschlager , a postgraduate Geology researcher, has demonstrated how the brain and inner ear developed rapidly in young dinosaurs. Lautenschlager collaborated with Tom Hbner from the Niederschsische Landesmuseum in Hannover, Germanyto pick the brains of 150-million-year-old dinosaurs. They studied two different fossils of ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214664781/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Tue, 21 May 2013 12:12:06 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214664781/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Amazon rainforest is known as the lungs of the planet because it inhales carbon dioxide and exudes oxygen into the atmosphere. The plants of the forest use the carbon dioxide to promote leafy growth, which eventually falls to the ground and decomposes or washes away by the region's plentiful rainfall. Until recently, the belief was that most of the rainforest's carbon floated away on ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214664784/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Tue, 21 May 2013 12:12:06 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214664784/scat/a9927dde6777aafc This kit overcomes one of the main challenges for teaching anatomy by adopting a build-it-yourself approach. The book is concise, well-written and engaging and the kit is accurate and interesting and will provide many hours of enjoyment as children and adults work together to build the human ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214664785/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Tue, 21 May 2013 11:56:53 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214664785/scat/a9927dde6777aafc A massive tornado that tore through the Oklahoma City suburb of Moore on Monday and killed scores of people was unusual not for its size or ferocity, but for the path it took, experts ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214664393/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Tue, 21 May 2013 10:52:47 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214664393/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Audubon Connecticut , for his perspective. Here's some advice for Sir Patrick and anyone else who encounters a bird, baby or adult, in need of help. Could a baby bird just take care of ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214664763/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Tue, 21 May 2013 10:52:47 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214664763/scat/a9927dde6777aafc This stunning space wallpaper reveals Supernova 1987A in the Large Magellanic Cloud. Glittering stars and wisps of gas create a backdrop for the self-destruction of a massive star. The supernova remnant in the center of the picture, looking like a trio of red, linked rings will continue to heat and excite the gas around it for a ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214664786/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Tue, 21 May 2013 10:50:20 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214664786/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.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214664004/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Tue, 21 May 2013 10:35:59 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214664004/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Ontario premier apologizes for gas plant decisions Ontario New Democrat Leader Andrea Horwath indicated Tuesday that her party will support the Liberals' budget. Horwath - whose support is critical to the survival of the minority Kathleen Wynne government- is responding to the latest Liberal concessions to NDP demands. Wynne has agreed to create a financial accountability office, has ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214664787/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Tue, 21 May 2013 10:28:15 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214664787/scat/a9927dde6777aafc In this historical photo from the U.S. space agency, NASA aerospace engineers Pete Zell (left) and Dr. William Clifton Horne (right), project director are shown preparing a laser light sheet for a flow visualization test on June 3, 1993. The subject of their test is Pratt & Whitney's Advance Ducted Propulsor (ADP) demonstrator engine in the Full-Scale Aerodynamic Complex (NFAC) 40 x ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214663151/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Tue, 21 May 2013 10:01:41 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214663151/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Three planets are coming together in the evening sky at the moment, putting on a celestial show that won't be seen again for more than a ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214663150/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Tue, 21 May 2013 10:01:41 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214663150/scat/a9927dde6777aafc A former army test pilot is to become the first official 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.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214662290/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Tue, 21 May 2013 09:52:42 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214662290/scat/a9927dde6777aafc United Paradyne Corporation, a California based rocket fuel supplier, is moving in to a former shuttle building. The building will be retrofitted to provide aerospace fuel for commercial space projects at KSC. ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214662737/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Tue, 21 May 2013 09:47:51 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214662737/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Jodi Arias stands and looks as the jury is excused for the lunch break during her trial at Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix, April 4, 2013. Arias is on trial for the killing of her boyfriend Travis Alexander in 2008. (REUTERS/David Wallace/The Arizona ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214661947/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Tue, 21 May 2013 09:40:37 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214661947/scat/a9927dde6777aafc (Image: CTV) Usually, when a wave of water several metres high crashes ashore you don't stop to take a photo. But when the wave is a creeping wall of ice, there's ample time to stand back and watch the slow-motion destruction. Last Friday, ice floes on the surface of Dauphin Lake in Manitoba, Canada, were pushed ashore by high winds. Once on land, the ice tsunami - as witnesses have ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214663140/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Tue, 21 May 2013 09:20:50 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214663140/scat/a9927dde6777aafc The U.S. Air Force is expected to pick a winner this summer to build an advanced radar system capable of tracking an estimated half a million pieces of manmade space junk, floating in orbit, before it can threaten satellites used for navigation, weather and communication. Raytheon (NYSE: RTN) and Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) have competing proposals for the project, the Boston Globe reports. Both ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214662692/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Tue, 21 May 2013 08:49:01 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214662692/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Bangladesh will recommend that nine people detained in connection with the disaster be sentenced to life in prison, the panel's chief said on Tuesday. The six-member committee, due to submit its conclusions to the government on Thursday, has singled out shoddy construction and the improper issue of building permits as the main reasons for the accident which killed more than 1,100 people. ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214661114/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Tue, 21 May 2013 08:27:07 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214661114/scat/a9927dde6777aafc '); Tom Costello from NBC News moderates a panel discussion titled "Sally Ride: How Her Historic Space Mission Opened Doors for Women in Science" at the National Air and Space Museum on Friday, May 17, 2013 in ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214660395/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Tue, 21 May 2013 07:39:11 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214660395/scat/a9927dde6777aafc '); Jeffrey O. Johnson took this photo of dwarf barred irregular galaxy, NGC 4214 on Feb. 13 and March 14, 2013 from Las Cruces, New Mexico. He used a Takahashi TOA-130F at f/7.7 telescope, Takahashi EM200 Temma II mount, QSI 540wsg @ -15C camera, Astrodon Tru-Balance I-Series LRGB Gen 2 filters and SX Lodestar ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214660396/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Tue, 21 May 2013 07:39:10 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214660396/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Researchers have known for a long time that blind and visually impaired people rely on other senses. A new study led by the University of Southampton, however, now shows that they have the potential to ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214660391/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Tue, 21 May 2013 07:38:06 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214660391/scat/a9927dde6777aafc earthquakes for only the past decade, but little has been understood about them. However, new tools may help explain what triggers these quakes. Scientists thought slow earthquakes were related to the type of rock in the fault, believing that clay minerals are important in slip behavior. A team writing in the ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214660392/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Tue, 21 May 2013 07:38:06 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214660392/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Two baby girls who shared a liver have been separated by doctors in Lima, Peru. The three-month-olds are recovering a month after the surgery, which took more than 30 medical staff eight hours to complete. Orfelinda Vasquez Sanchez and Segundo Vargas Fuentes are expected to recover fully but will need monitoring throughout their ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214659816/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Tue, 21 May 2013 07:31:01 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214659816/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.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214660393/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Tue, 21 May 2013 07:15:44 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214660393/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Tue May 21, 2013 9:27am EDT * Schools, homes and hospital destroyed * Authorities warned town 16 minutes before tornado hit (Adds officials lowering the death toll to 24 from 51) By Carey Gillam and Ian Simpson MOORE, Okla., May 21 (Reuters) - Emergency workers searched for survivors in the rubble of homes, schools and a hospital in an Oklahoma town hit by a powerful tornado, but officials on ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214662835/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Tue, 21 May 2013 07:02:16 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214662835/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Irrationality in science is every bit as extreme as we see in media events, perhaps more so because of the increased demands in science. Very little science is visible to the public. The carbon dioxide issue is an example of science which has come to the surface of public concerns, and it shows a lack of objectivity which can only be called religion and a lack of standards to a point of outright ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214660178/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Tue, 21 May 2013 06:54:42 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214660178/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.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214656548/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Tue, 21 May 2013 03:58:38 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.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.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214656549/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Tue, 21 May 2013 03:58:37 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.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.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214656843/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Tue, 21 May 2013 03:50:27 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.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.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214657280/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Tue, 21 May 2013 03:34:56 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.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.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214655688/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Tue, 21 May 2013 03:03:50 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.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.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214656383/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Tue, 21 May 2013 02:40:02 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.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.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214654653/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Tue, 21 May 2013 00:52:44 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.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.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214654190/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Tue, 21 May 2013 00:47:20 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.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.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214654189/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Tue, 21 May 2013 00:47:20 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.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.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214654655/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Tue, 21 May 2013 00:23:27 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.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.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214654654/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Tue, 21 May 2013 00:23:27 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.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.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214653252/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 23:43:35 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.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.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214653253/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 23:43:35 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.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.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214651936/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 21:48:09 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.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.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214652364/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 21:30:20 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.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.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214651937/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 21:16:09 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.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.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214651938/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 21:08:41 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.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.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214651939/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 21:08:40 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214651939/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.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214650338/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 20:27:53 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.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.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214650964/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 20:25:40 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.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.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214650963/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 20:25:40 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214650963/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.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214650339/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 20:17:35 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.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.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214650972/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 20:11:21 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.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.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214650973/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 20:04:00 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.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.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214649813/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 19:31:06 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214649813/scat/a9927dde6777aafc A Vancouver company says it will re-start production of a guitar used by Chris Hadfield in space, prompting dozens of new orders. The Canadian astronaut gained worldwide attention when he performed David ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214649238/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 19:14:12 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214649238/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.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214649129/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 19:12:47 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.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.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214649814/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 19:09:43 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.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.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214648916/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 19:02:39 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.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.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214649815/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 18:55:33 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.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.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214644733/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 18:17:59 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.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.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214644734/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 17:59:20 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.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.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214643564/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 17:14:38 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.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.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214642994/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 17:06:18 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.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.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214642608/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 17:04:50 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.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.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214642729/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 17:00:53 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.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.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214643565/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 16:40:26 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.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.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214642304/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 16:17:40 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.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.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214641297/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 16:16:35 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214641297/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.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214641278/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 16:10:37 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.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.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214641640/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 16:01:13 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.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.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214641335/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 15:51:59 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.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.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214641497/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 15:51:21 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.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.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214642299/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 15:44:58 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.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.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214641523/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 15:44:57 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.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.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214642300/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 15:44:54 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214642300/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Boston police said they have identified the driver of a truck that struck and killed a Massachusetts Institute of Technology researcher from Japan. Police said Kanako Miura, 36, who had been working at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory since last fall, was hit about 3:30 p.m. Sunday, the Boston Herald reported. She was pronounced dead at the scene. "Our ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214641592/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 15:44:26 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214641592/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.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214642301/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 15:42:33 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.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.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214642302/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 15:37:28 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.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.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214641092/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 15:13:42 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.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.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214640301/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 15:06:11 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.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.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214640300/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 15:06:10 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.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.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214639905/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 15:05:27 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.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.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214642298/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 14:55:18 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.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.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214640007/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 14:53:43 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.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.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214640281/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 14:53:43 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.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.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214641074/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 14:51:39 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.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.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214641087/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 14:37:07 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.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.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214641088/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 14:37:06 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.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.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214639892/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 14:37:05 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.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.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214641089/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 14:37:03 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.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.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214640285/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 14:37:02 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.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.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214638500/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 13:57:47 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.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.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214638534/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 13:56:29 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.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.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214639663/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 13:56:29 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.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.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214639664/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 13:47:51 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.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.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214640054/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 13:30:18 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.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.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214639248/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 13:26:43 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.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.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214639665/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 13:24:08 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.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.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214638665/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 13:23:30 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.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.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214638300/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 12:51:09 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.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.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214637381/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 12:44:04 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.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.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214638296/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 12:29:44 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.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.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214638297/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 12:26:31 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.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.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214637584/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 12:26:27 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214637584/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.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214638298/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 12:17:16 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.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.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214638299/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 12:14:01 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.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.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214635804/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 11:42:57 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.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.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214636694/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 11:39:36 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.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.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214635452/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 11:29:55 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.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.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214636465/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 11:27:38 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.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.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214635051/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 10:42:06 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.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.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214635288/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 10:42:06 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.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.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214634615/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 10:26:47 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.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.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214656382/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 10:00:00 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.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.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214634293/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 09:54:01 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214634293/scat/a9927dde6777aafc