Upcycling a new eco-friendly way of living
PUNE: Over 80% of the household waste including food scraps, clothes, paper, cardboards, cans and bottles either end up at landfill sites or simply adds to the clutter in the house. But, there are...
View ArticleJaguar Land Rover celebrates the 60th anniversary of the Queen’s coronation...
(Source: TATA Group - TATA Sons Ltd) Jaguar Land Rover is the official motor partner for the royal preview of the Coronation Festival on July 11. The festival is a four-day celebration of innovation,...
View ArticleWilliam Morris was right – true joy lies in making it yourself
Given our nationwide predilection for minimalist acres of glass, taupe and 50 shades of cream, the William Morris approach to interior design, dense, detailed and often very, very floral doesn't go...
View ArticleOld Mars rover makes significant find
NASA’s aging Opportunity rover on Mars has just made what may be one of its most significant discoveries to date. The nine-year-old robot has identified rock laden with what scientists believe to be...
View ArticleZoë Robot Returns To Chile's Atacama Desert On NASA Mission To Search For...
(Source: SETI Institute) Carnegie Mellon, SETI Institute Directing Astrobiology Field Experiment PITTSBURGH -The autonomous, solar-powered Zoë robot, which became the first robot to map microbial life...
View ArticleRain doesn’t dampen excitement of MIT’s 2013 Commencement (MIT -...
(Source: MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology) massachusetts institute of technology Dropbox CEO Drew Houston '05 tells graduates: "The people are the reason why there's only one MIT." David L....
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Travel Deals $77 & up -- Atlantic City Boardwalk Hotel w/$20 Credit See all travel deals » Posted: Saturday, June 8, 2013, 3:01 AM General to head antiabuse office WASHINGTON - The Air Force has...
View ArticleIndustrial design at the cutting edge
It can be an attractive alternative to architecture or graphic design and it can offer more job prospects Of all the careers in design, industrial design, one could argue, is one of the most...
View ArticleJaguar Land Rover Celebrates The 60th Anniversary Of The Queen’s Coronation...
(Source: Jaguar Cars Ltd) Jaguar Land Rover is the official motor partner for the Royal Preview of the Coronation Festival on Thursday 11th July The Festival is a four-day celebration of innovation,...
View ArticleTake measures to prevent repetitive strain injuries (MIT - Massachusetts...
(Source: MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Many of us use computers every day, often for hours at a time. This prolonged use can cause soreness and pain in muscles, tendons and joints....
View ArticleNASA 'Opportunity' rover nears 23 miles on Mars, new record
However, for NASA, there's one little glitch in the celebratory mood: no one knows exactly what the old record is. In the early 1970s, the Russians went to the Moon, but with the Lunokhod series of...
View ArticleSports Shorts for June 10: A weekly wrap-up of MIT varsity athletics (MIT -...
(Source: MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Overall and Conference Records (As of June 10) Baseball: 27-13 (13-5 NEWMAC) Men's Basketball: 20-6 (10-2 NEWMAC) Women's Basketball: 11-13 (7-11...
View ArticleComets Spurred Life On Earth By Helping Create Key Molecules, New Research...
By: Tia Ghose, LiveScience Staff Writer Published: 06/08/2013 08:43 AM EDT on LiveScience The impact of comets crashing into Earth's surface may have provided the energy to create simple molecules...
View ArticleLong-lived Mars rover heading to new destination
WASHINGTON, June 7 (Xinhua) -- U.S. space agency NASA said Friday its veteran Mars rover Opportunity is on the road again, heading to a new study area on the surface of the Red Planet. The...
View ArticleLofty ideals
Text Christopher DeWolf / Photography John Butlin If there’s one thing Donna NguyenPhuoc loves about her Wong Chuk Hang studio, it’s the 12-foot-high ceiling. “The high ceiling is No 1… by far,” she...
View ArticleMars rover makes a U-turn in search for life
Science Blog It is something everyone has heard - Neil Armstrong's "one small step" line that he delivered when he set foot on the moon in 1969. But what did he re... Local Stories from ThisWeek...
View ArticleSmooth operator: Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall's mayonnaise recipes
Homemade mayo is not just better than the stuff you can buy in a jar, it's also completely different Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall's basic mayonnaise: The base for all manner of mayonnaise variations....
View ArticleDean Fitzgerald announces appointments to SHASS leadership roles (MIT -...
(Source: MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Deborah Fitzgerald, Kenan Sahin Dean of the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences, has announced the appointment of eight faculty...
View ArticleElectronic graffiti walls to be built in Yellow Crane Tower (Wuhan Municipal...
(Source: Wuhan Municipal Government) Graffiti left on historical relics have become a source of national concern. The reporter found nearly 30 instances of graffiti on the main building of the Yellow...
View ArticleOpportunity Rover Discovers Mars Had Drinkable Water
Posted: June 10, 2013 NASA’s Opportunity rover sent back data to Earth showing that Mars once had benign, neutral-pH water flowing across its surface. That means that, at one time, the Red Planet had...
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