U.S. scientists have developed a software program that can analyze threats and forecast acts of terrorism.
Researchers at the University of Maryland’s Institute for Advanced Computer Studies created the Stochastic Opponent Modeling Agents, or SOMA, Terror Organization Portal, allowing analysts to query automatically learned rules on terrorist organization behavior, forecast potential behavior based on those rules […]
Scientists in a US university have developed a special coating that increases the energy efficiency of solar cells by about one-and-a-half times.
A Northwestern University research team found that energy from sunlight falling only on a patch of the Mojave Desert is enough to power all of the US - if it is tapped efficiently.
The […]
A leading expert has issued a grim warning about how a new generation of robot weapons being developed by world powers, including India and China, imperils humankind.
“Once the new weapons are out there, they will be fairly easy to copy. How long is it going to be before the terrorists get in on the act,” […]
The US National Aeronautics and Space Administrations (NASA) announced here that it has obtained the highest resolution images to date of the moon’s rugged south polar region.
Scientists at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory collected the data using the facility’s Goldstone Solar System Radar located in California’s Mojave Desert.
“We now know the south pole has peaks […]
A new study reveals that male wild birds exposed to pollution develop more complex songs, preferred by the females, though they show reduced immunity.
Katherine Buchanan and her colleagues at Cardiff University came to this conclusion after studying male European starlings (Sturnus vulgaris) foraging at a sewage treatment works in southwestern Britain.
Analysing earthworms that constituted their […]
India’s space agency, readying for a mission to the moon, is also planning to launch a satellite, Aditya, to study the sun, parliament was informed Wednesday.
“Aditya will carry an instrument intended to study the outmost region of the sun, called corona. It will also study the coronal mass ejection and the crucial physical parameters of […]
Deposed Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra returned on Thursday from 17 months in exile to face corruption charges, saying he hopes to restore his reputation. Police took him into custody but a court quickly granted bail, officials said.
Thaksin had tears in his eyes as he emerged to faced supporters. He knelt and touched the ground […]
Four Colombian former lawmakers freed on Wednesday by FARC guerrillas were in Caracas recovering from their years-long ordeal in the jungle after being picked up by a Red Cross delegation flown in on Venezuelan aircraft.
One of the ex-hostages, Luis Eladio Perez, told reporters upon arriving at Caracas airport that he and the others had suffered […]
PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif has ruled himself out as a candidate for the post of president and said his party could become part of Pakistan’s new government only if President Pervez Musharraf steps down.
Reacting to reports that he could be made president as part of efforts by the PML-N and Pakistan Peoples Party to form […]
For Barack Obama, it is an ember that he has doused time and again, only to see it flicker anew: links to Islam fanned by false rumors, innuendo and association.
Obama and his campaign reacted strongly this week when a photo of him in Kenyan tribal garb began spreading on the Internet.
And the praise he received […]
