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Nasa will send ‘icebreaker’ to Mars in hunt for life
Aspace probe designed to look for signs of life in the oceans that once covered Mars will be unveiled by Nasa scientists this week.
The Phoenix Mars Lander will be sent to the icy wastelands near the red planet's north polar ice cap. It will be launch...
The green day
Green Day are an American rock band formed in 1989 comprising three core members: Billie Joe Armstrong (guitar, lead vocals), Mike Dirnt (bass) and Tré Cool (drums).
Green Day was originally part of the punk rock scene at 924 Gilman Street in Berkeley...
Key to a good marriage? Share chores with wife
THE PERCENTAGE of Americans who consider children "very important" to a successful marriage has dropped sharply since 1990, and more now cite the sharing of household chores as pivotal, according to a sweeping new survey.
The Pew Research Center surve...
The Yellow Pages
The term Yellow Pages refers to a telephone directory for businesses, categorized according to the product or service provided. As the name suggests, such directories are usually printed on yellow paper, as opposed to white pages for non-commercial listin...
Battle to build the biggest supercomputer
SCIENTISTS HAVE unveiled a new generation of supercomputers, including a £30m machine with the memory of 200,000 home computers and a hard disk hefty enough to hold the entire Google index of the Internet.
The huge devices, each costing tens of milli...
Video games are not an addiction
Doctors backed away from a controversial proposal to designate video game addiction as a mental disorder akin to alcoholism, saying psychiatrists should study the issue more.
Addiction experts also strongly opposed the idea at a debate at the American...
Online games: Video game
Online games refer to video games that are played over some form of computer network, most commonly the Internet. The expansion of online gaming has reflected the overall expansion of computer networks from small local networks to the Internet and the gro...
Work out the distance in your relationship
How couples cope with being apart largely depends on how they feel about the separation. Here are some common interpretations:
What's the big deal?
if you were brought up in a family where absence was the norm, it may be that periods apart are no pr...
Restorative Dentistry treats any kind of dental defects
A COMBINATION of climate change and habitat destruction will significantly threaten 400 to 900 bird species by 2050, according to researchers who have carried out a global analysis of the effects of human activities on land-dwelling birds.
By the end ...
Green your house
Go for rainwater harvesting:
This simple measure will not only save on your water bills but will help the eco system by reacharging ground water and preventing soil erosion
Be thrifty with paper:
Dont print out each memo or email you recceive. Read a...
ROI (Return on investment)
Return on investment (ROI) is a financial ratio that compares the amount of income derived from an investment with the cost of the investment. ROI is known as a profitability ratio, because it provides information about management's performance in using t...
PlayStation 2 is Sony's second video game
The PlayStation 2 is Sony's second video game console, the successor to the PlayStation and the predecessor to the PlayStation 3. Its development was announced in March 1999, and it was first released in Japan on March 4, 2000, in North America on October...
Virtual human puts docs inside patients
CANADIAN RESEARCHERS have developed the most detailed model of a human yet, a movable 4-D image that doctors can use to plan complex surgery or show patients what ailments look like inside their bodies.
Called CAVEman, the largerthan-life computer imag...
Top 10 Children’s Museum
Children's museums are institutions that provide fun informal learning experiences for children. Traditional art and natural history museums typically have a hands-off policy regarding exhibits. Exhibits are designed to be viewed from a distance, and are ...
The knowledge of Genetics
Genetics is the science of heredity and variation in living organisms. Knowledge that desired characteristics were inherited has been implicitly used since prehistoric times for improving crop plants and animals through selective breeding. However, the mo...