Indian-origin scientist, two others win Nobel Prize for Chemistry (Second Lead, Changing Dateline)October 7th, 2009 LONDON - Indian-origin scientist Venkatraman Ramakrishnan shares the Nobel Prize in Chemistry this year with Thomas A. Steitz and Ada E.
Do not define good work by awards: Nobel laureate RamakrishnanOctober 7th, 2009 LONDON - Indian-origin scientist Venkatraman Ramakrishan Wednesday said that he is "honoured" to share 2009 Nobel Prize for Chemistry but added that it's a "mistake to define good work by awards". Asked about his initial reaction when he heard the news, Venkatraman said: "Well, I think it's a great honour and surprise! I am very happy!"
I think its a mistake to define good work by awards.
Scientists uncover origin of Merkel cellsSeptember 29th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Scientists claim to have unravelled the mystery surrounding the developmental origin of specialized skin cells involved in touch sensation. Merkel cells are neuroendocrine cells that reside in the vertebrate epidermis, passing mechanical stimuli on to sensory neurons.
Indian origin scientist's supercomputer can perform 28.16 trillion calculations per secondAugust 22nd, 2009 WASHINGTON - A scientist of Indian origin has created a new supercomputer, called Cystorm, which can carry out 28.16 trillion calculations per second. Cystorm, a Sun Microsystems machine, was developed by Srinivas Aluru from the Iowa State University.
Scientists map waves in Earth's radiation beltJune 1st, 2009 WASHINGTON - Scientists at NASA have mapped chorus waves, a type of electromagnetic emission generated by electrons in Earth's radiation belt. Chorus waves play an important role in both accelerating and removing the energetic radiation belt electrons that can disrupt satellite electronics and disturb communications with ground-based operators.
Indian-origin girls bag first, third spots in Scripps National Spelling BeeMay 29th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Kansas-based, Indian-origin girl Kavya Shivashankar, 13, has become America's spelling champion by winning the Scripps National Spelling Bee. The budding neurosurgeon from Olathe took home more than 40,000 dollars in cash and prizes and the huge champion's trophy.
Tiny rotors may help develop nano-scale generatorsMay 28th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Scientists are working on infinitesimally small rotors that may one day lead to nano-scale generators. Collaborating with the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing, a research team have already probed the rotation of molecules on a fixed surface to understand how they may help in the development of future rotor-based machinery at nanoscale level.he researchers focussed on rotating magnetic fields, which play an important part in machines like electric motors and generators.
Indian turmeric powder yields its healing secretsApril 20th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Tumeric power, a spice regarded as auspicious and anticeptic in India, has finally yielded its healing secrets, according to scientists. Ayyalusamy Ramamoorthy, professor of biophysics, University of Michigan, who conducted the study along with colleagues, pointed out that turmeric has been used for centuries in Indian folk medicine to treat wounds, infections and other health problems.
Scientists discover pentagonal ice that can be used to seed cloudsApril 8th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Scientists at the University of Liverpool, UK, have discovered a five-sided ice chain structure that could be used to form clouds in the atmosphere and modify future weather patterns. Researchers, in collaboration with University College London and the Fritz-Haber Institut in Berlin, created the first moments of water condensing on matter - a process vital for the formation of clouds in the atmosphere - by analysing how the two interact on a flat copper surface.
95 million year old fossils reveal earlier origin for modern octopusMarch 18th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Scientists have found five specimens of 95 million year old fossils of Cretaceous octopuses, which reveals a much earlier origin for the modern octopus. The five specimens have been found by palaeontologists in Cretaceous rocks in Lebanon, which have astonishingly preserved the octopuses' eight arms with traces of muscles and those characteristic rows of suckers.
New organic material may boost Internet speedMarch 16th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Take two bricks out into a snowfall and place them side by side. In a few hours, the snowflakes will fill every vacant space between and around the bricks.
Indian origin scientist plays key role in single top quark discoveryMarch 12th, 2009 WASHINGTON - A scientist of Indian origin has played a key role in discovering particle collisions that produce a single top quark, one of the fundamental constituents of matter. The scientist in question is Meenakshi Narain, professor of physics at Brown University, who has been involved with the CDF and DZero collaborations at the Department of Energy's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory.
Steroid doping tests ignore vital ethnic differences, say scientistsMarch 12th, 2009 WASHINGTON - A new study has suggested that steroid doping tests currently used in international sport are 'not fit for purpose' because they ignore vital ethnic differences in hormone activity. According to the World Anti-Doping Agency, testosterones, and other hormones that boost testosterone levels, are commonly used as illicit performance enhancers in a number of sports.
Mathematician creates lovely 'snowfakes' in labFebruary 25th, 2009 WASHINGTON - The exquisitely detailed and symmetrical snowflakes look like nature's creation, but they are actually the products of an elaborate computer model designed to replicate the wildly complex growth of snow crystals. The model that David Griffeath and Janko Gravner, mathematicians from Universities of Wisconsin-Madison (UW-M) and California-Davis, respectively, designed, can generate all of nature's snowflake types in rich 3-D detail.
India-born US nuclear physicist Shiva Subramanya deadFebruary 5th, 2009 WASHINGTON - India-born US nuclear physicist Shiva Subramanya is dead. He was 76, a family member said Friday.
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