El Nino drives Panama butterfly migrationsOctober 6th, 2009 WASHINGTON - A long-term study has shown that El Nino, a global climate pattern, drives Sulfur butterfly migrations across the Panama Canal. Climate change has been linked to changes in the migration of butterflies in North America and Europe but this is one of the first long-term studies of environmental factors driving long-distance migration of tropical butterflies.
Homeland Security says it will be 'competitive' in hiring up to 1,000 cyber security expertsOctober 1st, 2009 Homeland Security to hire up to 1K cyber expertsWASHINGTON — The Obama administration has given a green light to the Homeland Security Department to be more competitive and choosey as it hires up to 1,000 new cyber experts over the next three years, the first major personnel move to fulfill its vow to bolster security of the nation's computer networks. The announcement follows a wave of cyber attacks on federal agencies, including a July assault that knocked government Web sites off the Internet and earlier intrusions into the country's electrical grid.
Correction: ACORN's TroublesSeptember 22nd, 2009 Correction: ACORN's TroublesWASHINGTON — In a Sept. 19 story about the community organizing group ACORN, The Associated Press, based on an account in The Washington Post, erroneously quoted a conservative journalist saying he targeted the organization for hidden-camera videos because its voter-registration drives bring minority voters to the polls.
Brit car smashes century-old speed record by clocking 225 kms per hourAugust 26th, 2009 LONDON - A British-built car has broken the land speed record for steam-powered cars for the first time in more than 100 years, after it achieved an average speed of 225 kilometres per hour. According to a report in New Scientist, Charles Burnett III has reached speeds of 219 km/hr (136 mph) and 243 km/hr (151 mph) during two drives at California's Edwards Air Force Base.
Drives of a lifetime from National Geographic TravelerAugust 17th, 2009 Scenic drives from National Geographic TravelerWASHINGTON — With another few weeks of summer holding out the possibility of an old-fashioned road trip, followed by the lure of leaf-peeping come autumn, consider planning a long scenic drive. National Geographic Traveler is featuring 50 "Drives of a Lifetime" on its Web site at traveler.nationalgeographic.com/drives.
Gamma rays show black hole drives oppositely directed particle jetsJuly 15th, 2009 WASHINGTON - NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has found the core of an active galaxy, where a feeding supermassive black hole drives oppositely directed particle jets, as revealed by gamma rays. Gamma rays from the narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxy PMN J0948+0022 show that its central black hole drives a fast-moving particle beam.
State Department still struggling with laptop security a decade after embarrassing lapseJuly 9th, 2009 Diplomats still struggling with laptop lapsesWASHINGTON — Nearly a decade after a State Department laptop containing highly classified information disappeared in an embarrassing security lapse, the agency is still unable to account for all of its portable computers, a government report said Wednesday. The State Department's inspector general said Wednesday that a review of a sample of 334 laptops belonging to four departmental bureaus found that 27 were missing at the time of the audit and that 172, including nine of 14 classified laptops labeled "secret," were not protected with encryption software, potentially risking sensitive information.
Google's G1 phone designers now create car that drives on its ownJuly 8th, 2009 WASHINGTON - The pair of designers behind Google's G1 phone, have now conceptualised a new autonomous car of the future, called the ATNMBL. With a glass-walled-like seating area on four hidden wheels, Mike and Maaike's electric car drives on its own.
Washington police say man drove at least 3 miles on interstate in reverseJune 19th, 2009 Man drives 3 miles on Wash. interstate in reverseLONGVIEW, Wash.
Fear of rejection drives men, women to look attractiveMay 30th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Fear of rejection over their appearance is what drives people to look attractive, confirms a new study. The research was led by Lora Park, assistant professor of psychology, University of Buffalo, along with her graduate student Ann Marie DiRaddo and Rachel Calogero, psychology lecturer at the University of Kent.
Mars rover Spirit stuck in dirt; engineers stop driving it as they diagnose problemMay 12th, 2009 Spirit rover's wheels stuck in soft Martian dirtPASADENA, Calif. — The Mars rover Spirit has become stuck in loose dirt while ambling around a low plateau, NASA said Monday.
Monsoon drives long-term carbon cycles in the global oceanMay 9th, 2009 WASHINGTON - In a new research, it has been determined that monsoon drives long-term cyclicity of the carbon reservoir in the global ocean. For over 300 years, monsoon has been considered as a gigantic land-sea breeze of regional scale, but now it is considered as a global system over all continents but Antarctica.
Matt Damon to re-enact American historyApril 17th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Hollywood actor Matt Damon is set to re-enact the American history for a documentary in The History Channel. Other celebs joining the 'The Departed' star to film dramatic performances for 'The People Speak' are Viggo Mortensen, Marisa Tomei etc.
Now, 'racetrack' memory for PCs to beat 'back-up' bluesApril 4th, 2009 WASHINGTON - No need to panic if your hard disk is about to crash and you have not yet copied your favourite pictures and notes on a CD, for a new kind of computer memory may soon make 'back-up' a thing of the past. Racetrack memory, developed by Physicists at the University of Leeds and scientists at IBM Research's Zurich lab, may become the standard method of storing information in home computers.
Family history linked to increased blood clot riskMarch 24th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Children and siblings of people with venous thrombosis, or blood clots in the veins, may be more than twice as likely to develop the condition than those without a family history, say Dutch researchers. Venous thrombosis typically begins in leg veins, although the clot may subsequently break off and travel to the lungs.
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