Searching for aliens just got easier!

September 29th, 2009 WASHINGTON - A new study has shown that women who feel more positively about their genitals find it easier to orgasm and are more likely to engage in sexual health promoting behaviours. They are more likely to undergo regular gynecological exams or perform vulvar self-examinations.

September 10th, 2009 MELBOURNE - A new research has found that Australian lacewings build tougher silk than silkworms. Scientists at CSIRO Entomology have learnt that silk made by the common Australian green lacewing can be stretched up to six times further than silkworm silk.

September 7th, 2009 LONDON - The mystery behind the meaning of a Google doodle that featured a UFO, and was linked to the search term 'unexplained phenomenon' has been solved. Google Doodles are the various modifications or humorous features the company does to its logo that appears on its home page to mark holidays, birthdays of famous people, and major events.

September 3rd, 2009 Israeli team working to decipher ancient textsJERUSALEM — Israeli researchers said Thursday they are developing a computer program to make ancient documents more legible and easily indexed, which could eventually lead to a searchable catalog of archived historical texts. The program, which is being developed by a team of computer scientists and historians at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, would make the faded, smudged or overwritten words in ancient texts easier to read.

September 2nd, 2009 WASHINGTON - Two University of Alberta researchers have found that children's games like hide-and-seek could pave way for more realistic video games, and high-tech search-enhancing tools for the police. Experimental psychologist Marcia Spetch and computer scientist Vadim Bulitko used their research to understand the reasoning and decision-making process involved in hiding and searching for objects.

August 28th, 2009 SYDNEY - The Tidbinbilla Deep Space Communication Complex outside Canberra, Australia, has sent out more than 25,000 messages to Gliese 581d, the nearest Earth-like planet outside our solar system, which might host life. According to a report carried out in www.news.com.au, the messages have come from 195 countries including some from places such as the Vatican city, Antarctica and Kosovo.

August 19th, 2009 LONDON - The SETI (Search For Extraterrestrial Intelligence) telescope has produced its first scientific results, but unfortunately it's still waiting for a response from the aliens. The project, called the Allen Telescope Array (ATA) after benefactor and Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, went live in 2007.

August 1st, 2009 WASHINGTON - In a new research, scientists have explained how their discovery of graphane could make it easier for the production of tiny strips of graphene needed for electronic circuits. Graphane was discovered by Kostya Novoselov - a condensed-matter physicist from the Manchester University group.

July 29th, 2009 LONDON - A practice that has long irked scientific curiosity may have been solved - why we swing our arms when we walk. Scientists have discovered that swinging is more energy-efficient than holding them still.

July 22nd, 2009 NEW DELHI - Infosys Technologies co-founder Nandan Mohan Nilekani formally takes over as the chairperson of the newly formed Unique Identity Authority at Yojana Bhavan, the headquarters of the Planning Commission, here Thursday. Nilekani, 54, will enjoy the rank of a cabinet minister.

June 11th, 2009 WASHINGTON - An archaeologist, along with his team, is searching for Afghanistan's third giant Buddha statue, one which is reclining and is believed to stretch 1,000 feet (300 meters) long underground. According to a report in National Geographic Magazine, the archaeologist in question is Zemaryalai Tarzi, who was Afghanistan's Director of Archaeology in the 1970s.

June 9th, 2009 LONDON - A Brit cosmologist suggests that scientists searching for aliens in space instead focus their hunt on the Earth itself. Prof Paul Davies has said that the extraterrestrial creatures would be totally different from life that exists on our planet.

June 6th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Having problems with a search engine, then change the search terms to get the information you need. But what if the search engine did it for you? A Penn State researcher analysed nearly one million web searches to detect patterns of query reformulation and create models to predict them -- models that may help create more advanced search engines.

June 6th, 2009 WASHINGTON - A search engine that would not require a user to change the search terms to get any information time and again may soon be a reality, thanks to the efforts of a Penn State researcher. Jim Jansen, associate professor of Information Sciences and Technology, analysed nearly 1 million Web searches to detect patterns of query reformulation and create models to predict them, which may help create more advanced search engines.

June 5th, 2009 LONDON - Making long space voyage might sound thrilling and macho, but it will do no good to your appearance, claim scientists who believe space travel will leave astronauts looking short, fat and bald. Astrobiologist Dr Lewis Dartnell believes that near zero gravity would leave humans stunted and cause their bones and muscles to be underdeveloped.