Large Hadron Collider rumoured to have found God Particle

Scientists at the Large Hadron Collider are rumoured to have found the elusive so-called "God Particle". A leaked internal memo contains unconfirmed reports that one of the detectors at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, near Geneva, had picked up signals that could be the long sought after particle, called the Higgs boson. One of the main scientific goals of the huge £6 billion atom smasher was to prove the existence of the Higgs boson, a theoretical particle believed to give everything in the universe mass. The particle is a key part of the standard model used in physics to describe how particles and atoms are made up. Rumours that scientists...

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New Tools To Tackle A Solar Data Storm

So great is the wealth of data about the Sun now being sent back by space missions such as SOHO, STEREO and the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) that scientists back on Earth can struggle to keep pace. To combat this data overload, scientists from the Visual Computer Centre at Bradford University are developing advanced imaging tools to help scientists visualise what's happening at the Sun, make sense of the data and predict the extreme solar activities that could affect our life here on Earth. Dr Rami Qahwaji will present the tools at the RAS National Astronomy Meeting at Llandudno. "These techniques are very important," said Qahwaji. "We...

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New Injection for Alzheimer's

A new injection which could halt the progress of Alzheimer's is expected to be ready within 2-years. The 'bapineuzumab' injection has entered the final stages of testing. This injection has been proved to stop and even reverse the damage caused by the illness. Existing medications temporarily delay the progress of Alzheimer's but they do not treat the underlying causes. However, this injection prevents the chemical build-up (amyloid plaque) that affects the brain and causes damage. Early tests have shown that the injection can cut the build up of these amyloid plaques by about 25%. Patients will have to take this injection at regular intervals...

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New concerns over swine flu jab after children given it 'hit by sudden sleep syndrome'

A swine flu vaccine which has been given to thousands of children in Britain may cause the sleep disorder narcolepsy. Symptoms include excessive daytime sleepiness and nodding off suddenly without warning. All packets of the vaccine Pandemrix will have to carry a warning about the risk following a ruling by the EU regulator, the European Medicines Agency (EMA). The EMA, which is currently investigating the effects of the vaccine, has also told doctors to weigh up the potential risks before injecting children against the deadly H1N1 virus. There have been seven reported cases of narcolepsy in the UK linked to the GlaxoSmithKline vaccine...

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Recess, Not Ritalin, Can Help Kids With ADHD

Imagine a treatment that would help kids deal with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), make them smarter and healthier, and improve their mood.  And best of all, it's free! Nature And Exercise Can Improve ADHD It’s called nature. A growing body of research is revealing the positive effects that exercising outdoors can have on kids with ADHD. From Dr. David L. Katz, writing at health.msn.com: When my colleagues and I  conducted a study of our school-based physical activity program, ABC for Fitness, one of the findings was a 33% reduction in medication use for ADHD! I have long said that rambunctiousness in kids is...

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We are too small as artists to disrespect Dev or Zeenat—Abhishek

The Abhishek Bachchan-starrer Rohan Sippy’s ‘Dum Maaro Dum’, which has been the hottest controversial subject of discussion ever since its making started, has managed to gross around 6.2 crores on the opening day, reports IANS. Besides the storyline, DMD’s item number ‘Mit Jaaye Gham’ featuring the hot Deepika Padukone, was also a much talked about issue before the release of the film. Apparently, ‘Mit Jaaye Gham’, which is a remixed version of the 70s song ‘Dum Maro Dum’ from the movie ‘Hare Rama Hare Krishna’, had offended Dev Anand and Zeenat Aman, the legendary stars on whom the original song was featured. In an exclusive interview with...

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Miss India wants to work with both SRK and Aamir

After winning the Miss India International crown, Ankita Shorey has set her sights on the Bollywood and has both Shah Rukh Khan and Aamir Khan on her wish-list of co-stars. The 24-year-old model says films are her first love, and she wants to live out her life in front of the cameras. “Acting is and will always be my first love. Even before I won the pageant, I was working towards becoming an actress, and the crown will hopefully ease my way a bit,” Ankita told PTI. Ankita, who has already shared screen space with King Khan in an advertisement for a cosmetics brand, said Shah Rukh had an immense commercial appeal, while Aamir had an “experimental...

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Facebook's Like button celebrates its first birthday

Exactly one year after its launch, the Facebook Like button has become ubiquitous across the web and is still installed on thousands of new websites every day. Facebook first introduced the Like button at its F8 developer's conference, along with Facebook Open Graph and instant personalization. Through the "Like," Facebook spread its social footprint across the web; 50,000 websites installed the Like button in its first week, and that number rose to 100,000 in less than a month. That number hasn't stopped rising since. Facebook said Thursday that 10,000+ websites add the Like Button every day — identical to what COO Sheryl Sandberg said in...

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Your Phone, Yourself: When is tracking too much?

SAN FRANCISCO — If you're worried about privacy, you can turn off the function on your smartphone that tracks where you go. But that means giving up the services that probably made you want a smartphone in the first place. After all, how smart is an iPhone or an Android if you can't use it to map your car trip or scan reviews of nearby restaurants? The debate over digital privacy flamed higher this week with news that Apple Inc.'s popular iPhones and iPads store users' GPS coordinates for a year or more. Phones that run Google Inc.'s Android software also store users' location data. And not only is the data stored -- allowing anyone who can...

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Get a refurbished 16GB iPad for $349 shipped

I'll be the first to admit this isn't news--Apple has been selling the refurbished 16GB iPad with Wi-Fi for $349 shipped (plus sales tax in some states) for the better part of a month. So why am I posting it now? Because I have some thoughts to share, and because I don't think this deal will be around for much longer. Indeed, now that the iPad 2 has arrived, Apple has only a finite number of original iPads left to sell. When they're gone, they're gone, meaning your only option will be the $499-and-up iPad 2. I've always felt that price point was too high, and I made no secret of my disappointment with Apple's failure to make the iPad 2 more...

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CWG scam: Kalmadi to be questioned by CBI today

New Delhi:  The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) will today question former head of the Commonwealth Games Organising Committee, Suresh Kalmadi, for the fourth time in connection with irregularities in the contract for the Queen's Baton Relay. On April 20, Kalmadi had skipped an interrogation session with the CBI citing medical reasons and appointments related to his constituency in Maharashtra. Investigators say the CBI may have finally gathered enough evidence to prove that Mr Kalmadi manipulated the rules when he was Chairman of the Organising Committee of the Commonwealth Games to give a sweetheart deal to London based AM films. AM...

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Investment Focus: HCL Technologies - Buy

Investors with a two-year horizon can buy the shares of HCL Technologies in the light of the improvement in its operating metrics, continuous reduction in forex losses, and the revival in its BPO business. At Rs 518, the stock trades at 17 times its likely per share earnings for FY12. This is at a discount to its peers. Investors may consider accumulating it on declines. Forex losses that ate into profits earlier have steadily been on the decline with the recent quarter witnessing just over Rs 11-crore erosion. Even for the whole year, losses are likely to be only a fifth of earlier levels. In 2008-09 and 2009-10, HCL had to contend with...

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CBI to file second charge sheet on 2G scam this week

The CBI is likely to file charge sheet against DMK-owned Kalaignar TV and others in the 2G scam later this week for allegedly receiving pay-offs for allocation of spectrum to certain telecom firms in January 2008 by jailed former telecom minister A Raja. Agency officials said the charge sheet will give details of illegal routing of over Rs 200 crore by his two close aides -- former Managing Director of DB Realty Shahid Usman Balwa and Sadiq Batcha (now dead), MD of Greenhouse Promoters -- to Kalaignar TV Pvt Ltd of which Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Karunanidhi's wife Dayaluammal is one of the owners. They said Karunanidhi''s daughter and...

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Pak Army Chief Says 'Terrorist Backbone Broken'

Islamabad : Pakistani army has “broken” the backbone of terrorists and will soon prevail over them, its powerful chief Gen Ashfaq Parvez Kayani said today in an apparent riposte to US concerns about his force’s capability to take on militants. “The terrorist backbone has been broken and Inshaallah we will soon prevail,” Kayani said in his address at a passing out parade at the Pakistan Military Academy at Kakul in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province. “Let me assure you that we in the Pakistan Army are fully aware of the internal and external threats to our country. In the war against terrorism, our officers and soldiers have made great sacrifices...

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NATO Initiates Drone Attacks In Libya

Tripoli/Washington  : Intensifying its air attacks on Gaddafi’s forces, NATO fired its first Predator drone strike today, destroying a Libyan government multiple rocket launcher near Misurata. The NATO strike came as a big boost to rebels who were coming under fierce attack Gaddafi’s forces which were forcing them to retreat with heavy shelling and firing, using human shields, the BBC reported. The Western nations have pledged to fight hard to see the end of the 41-year rule of 68-year-old Muammar Gaddafi. Forces loyal to Gaddafi have decided to withdraw from the western besieged city of Misurata in a bid to allow the local tribes to...

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17 Killed In Beijing Building Fire: State Media

Beijing  : At least 17 people were killed and 24 injured in a building fire today, China’s official Xinhua news agency reported, quoting local police. The fire broke out about 1 am (1700 GMT yesterday) in a four-story building in the Daxing district in the capital’s southern suburbs, the agency quoted police as saying, adding that the blaze had been put out. It gave no other details, such as what might have caused the fire. A woman official who answered the phone at the local government headquarters in Jiugong town, where the fire took place, said she could not confirm Xinhua’s casualty count, but added that an investigation had been...

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All Eyes On 7 Key Members of Sathya Sai Trust

Puttaparthi : With the death of Sathya Sai Baba, all eyes are on seven key people associated with his powerful Sri Sathya Sai Central Trust (SSSCT), who may call the shots from now on. With Baba leaving a huge spiritual empire of an estimated Rs 40,000 crore ($9 billion) but not a successor, the following people may decide on the coming events at Puttaparthi in Anantapur district. Trust secretary K Chakravarthi: A former Indian Administrative Service(IAS) official and the only trust member with cheque signing power. A former district collector of Anantapur, Chakravarthi, who hails from Tamil Nadu, quit the IAS on Baba's advice and joined him...

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Vaastu Dosham In Hospital That He Built, Says Sai's Relative

Puttaparthi  : Sathya Sai Baba had the 220-bed Sri Sathya Sai Baba Institute of Higher Medical Sciences (SSSIHMS) set up in 1991 in a record 11 months over an area of 80 acres to offer free specialized medical treatment to the poor.However, the hospital's tryst with Sai Baba and his family members continues to be jinxed. The godman was the fifth person from the family to die in the hospital.''We always felt that the hospital had 'vaastu dosham' (problems) and this was proved yet again with the death of Sai Baba. We had asked doctors to shift him to another ICU or Bangalore super-specialty hospital but our pleas were turned down,'' said...

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Abandoned Baby Shall Reincarnate As Prema Sai

Puttaparthi,  If the words of Halagappa, ardent devotee of Sathya Sai Baba, are to be believed, it was in the early 60s itself that Baba had broached the issue of his reincarnation as Prema Sai, in a village on the banks of Cauvery,  near Srirangapatna. Though Baba did not reveal the name of the village, he said it would be called Gunaparthi, Halagappa claimed, adding that he did not insist on knowing the village name as he was under the impression that the village may be called Gunaparthi after Baba's reincarnation. Even Puttaparthi got its name after Baba's birth there, he adds.According to Halagappa, Sai Baba's reincarnation...

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