Indo Daily
May 05, 2017
FROTH AND BUBBLE
Not even the Himalayas are immune to traffic smog



Cincinnati OH (SPX) May 04, 2017
Smog from cars and trucks is an expected health hazard in big cities, but researchers from the University of Cincinnati found pollution from truck exhaust on one of the most remote mountain roads in the world. Brooke Crowley, an assistant professor of geology and anthropology, and UC graduate student Rajarshi Dasgupta examined soil pollution along India's Manali-Leh Highway in the Himalaya Mountains. This tortuous 300-mile route, much of it gravel or dirt, winds its way over one of the highe ... read more

FLORA AND FAUNA
Scientists uncover substance telling ants which will become queens
Washington (UPI) May 3, 2017
Researchers have identified the "princess pheromone" that tells a colony of ants when an ant larva will become the queen. ... more
EARTH OBSERVATION
India's Space Agency Saves Over US$ 2 Billion per Year for the Country
New Delhi (Sputnik) May 01, 2017
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is not just building satellites or driving innovation by sharing its Lithium-ion batteries for powering vehicles, the space agency is helping fishermen ... more
CLIMATE SCIENCE
Mechanism of the influence of the Tibetan-Iranian Plateaus on the circulation and climate in summer
Beijing, China (SPX) May 03, 2017
The highest and largest plateau in the Northern Hemisphere, the Tibetan Plateau (TP), is in the subtropical region of Asia. The air quality above the TP is only 60% of the sea level. In addition, be ... more
SOLAR DAILY
Indian Space Agency Test-Drives Solar Electric Hybrid Vehicle
New Delhi (Sputnik) May 04, 2017
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) added another milestone to its list of achievements by successfully showcasing a solar-electric hybrid vehicle. ISRO's different engineering branches at ... more


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ABOUT US
Tibetan people have multiple adaptations for life at high altitudes
Washington DC (SPX) May 01, 2017
The Tibetan people have inherited variants of five different genes that help them live at high altitudes, with one gene originating in the extinct human subspecies, the Denisovans. Hao Hu and Chad H ... more
VENUSIAN HEAT
Indian Space Research Organisation Starts Work on India's First Venus Mission
New Delhi (Sputnik) Apr 27, 2017
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has begun the process to send its first satellite to Venus by inviting Indian scientists and academia for space-based experiments. The Announcement of O ... more
SOLAR DAILY
Indian Space Agency Comes Up With an App Indicating Solar Power Potential
New Delhi (Sputnik) Apr 26, 2017
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has developed an Android app that will show the solar potential of a given location in any part of the country. The app was developed to support the cle ... more
ROCKET SCIENCE
India seeks status as a major space power with more satellite launches
New Delhi (Sputnik) Apr 26, 2017
Aiming to lower the cost of access to space, the Indian Space and Research Organization (ISRO) chairman A.S. Kiran Kumar has said the space agency is aiming to increase the number of satellite launc ... more
FLORA AND FAUNA
Sri Lanka overturns ban on adopting elephants
Colombo (AFP) April 26, 2017
Sri Lanka said Wednesday it was overturning a ban on adopting baby elephants, drawing sharp criticism from the animal protection lobby. ... more
THE PITS
India's coal plant plans conflict with climate commitments
Washington DC (SPX) Apr 26, 2017
India will not be able to meet its Paris climate agreement commitments in the coming years if it carries through with plans to build nearly 370 coal-fired power plants, a new study finds. "Ind ... more


The Nepal quake survivors who can never go home

MOON DAILY
India dreams of harvesting lunar dust to power fusion rectors
New Delhi (Sputnik) Apr 24, 2017
ISRO is working on mining lunar dust, which is rich in Helium, and transport back it to India, said Dr Sivathanu Pillai, an ISRO scientist who earlier worked as the chief of the Indo-Russian venture ... more
MICROSAT BLITZ
Sky and Space Global 3 Diamonds integrated to launch pod in the Netherlands
Sydney, Australia (SPX) Apr 23, 2017
announce the successful integration of its 3 Diamonds nano-satellites into the launch pod of Innovative Space Logistics BV in the Netherlands. The 3 Diamonds will be transported from the premi ... more
ROCKET SCIENCE
India to Launch Carrier Rocket With Higher Payload Capacity in May
New Delhi (Sputnik) Apr 24, 2017
The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) plans to launch a carrier rocket capable of lifting heavy satellites in May, ISRO Chairman Kiran Kumar said on Wednesday. "Next month, we have sch ... more
TERROR WARS
Nations team up to protect ancient heritage from terrorism
Athens (AFP) April 24, 2017
Ten countries formed a new group Monday aimed at protecting ancient heritage from extremism of the kind that saw the Islamic State group lay waste to Syria's historic Palmyra. ... more





Department of Defense awards contract for 240 F-35 Lightning II planes
Washington (UPI) May 1, 2017
Lockheed Martin has received a $1.377 billion contract for low-rate initial production of 130 Lot 12 F-35 Lightning II fighter planes. The contract includes parts, maintenance, and other services for the program, the Department of Defense announced. In addition the Lot 12 F-35 production for the Air Force, Navy, Marine Corp and other non-Department of Defense and foreign customers, the ... more
Tel Aviv (AFP) May 2, 2017
Israel shows off F-35 stealth fighters for first time
Moscow (Sputnik) May 04, 2017
Russia's T-50 Super Jet Preparing to Soar With Next-Gen Engine
Cleveland OH (SPX) Apr 28, 2017
The QueSST for Quiet
Germany's Bosch sells subsidiary to China's ZMJ
Berlin (AFP) May 2, 2017
Germany's Bosch, the world's largest auto parts supplier, said Tuesday it had sold its subsidiary making starter motors and generators to a Chinese buyer. It did not disclose the price, but industry sources estimated it at more than 500 million euros ($550 million). The buyers are Zhengzhou Coal Mining Machinery Group Co. (ZMJ) and Hong Kong-based China Renaissance Capital Investment, th ... more
Beirut (AFP) April 30, 2017
Bike-sharing launched in congested Beirut
San Francisco (AFP) April 25, 2017
Free rides offered by Alphabet's Waymo autonomous cars
Washington (AFP) April 26, 2017
Rideshare rivals Gett, Juno join forces


U.S. emissions generally lower last year
Washington (UPI) Apr 10, 2017
The only U.S. sector where emissions of carbon dioxide increased last year was in the transportation sector, an Energy Department division reported. A daily brief from the U.S. Energy Information Administration reported CO2 emissions from the transportation sector increased 1.9 percent from 2015 levels. Emissions directly from motor gasoline increased 1.8 percent and the overall sector ... more
Washington (AFP) April 3, 2017
World Bank urges more investment for developing global electricity
New York (AFP) April 3, 2017
US states begin legal action on Trump energy delay
Paris (AFP) March 28, 2017
Program to be axed saves energy in LA buildings
Super P carbon black for reversible lithium and sodium ion storage
Beijing, China (SPX) May 04, 2017
Nowadays lithium ion batteries play a dominant role in the rechargeable battery market. Sodium ion batteries have recently attracted increasing interest as an alternative to lithium ion batteries due to the high natural abundance of sodium compared to lithium. Super P carbon black (SPCB), produced from partial oxidation of petrochemical precursors exhibiting a large specific surface area a ... more
Montreal, Canada (SPX) Apr 27, 2017
Bright future for self-charging batteries
Washington DC (SPX) May 05, 2017
NRL breakthrough enables safer alternative to lithium-ion batteries
London, UK (SPX) May 03, 2017
Revolutionary method reveals impact of short circuits on battery safety
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Ukraine clings to nuclear power despite Chernobyl trauma
Kiev (AFP) April 30, 2017
Ukraine is still suffering from the trauma of the world's worst civil nuclear accident at Chernobyl but has nonetheless turned the hazardous fuel into the backbone of its energy portfolio. The crisis-torn country now uses atomic power for more than half of its electricity needs as it struggles through a coal shortage sparked by a three-year war against Russian-backed insurgents in the separa ... more
Johannesburg (AFP) April 26, 2017
Court deals setback to South Africa's nuclear ambitions
Paris, France (SPX) Apr 21, 2017
Andra continues Areva contract to operate its Aube Surface Disposal Facility
Oak Ridge TN (SPX) Apr 19, 2017
The critical importance of Predictive Power when building NPPs
Mapping the edge of reality
Melbourne, Australia (SPX) May 02, 2017
Australian and German researchers have collaborated to develop a genetic algorithm to confirm the rejection of classical notions of causality. Dr Alberto Peruzzo from RMIT University in Melbourne said: "Bell's theorem excludes classical concepts of causality and is now a cornerstone of modern physics. "But despite the fundamental importance of this theorem, only recently was the firs ... more
Beijing, China (SPX) May 02, 2017
Towards largest-possible separation between quantum and classical query complexities
Toronto, Canada (SPX) May 03, 2017
Physicists breeding Schroedinger cat states
Washington (UPI) May 1, 2017
Perfect pitch: Scientists explore the mechanics of throwing


HSBC pre-tax profit slides but hails 'good result'
Hong Kong (AFP) May 4, 2017
HSBC said on Thursday that pre-tax profit fell 19 percent in the first three months of the year but the bank's chief described them as "a good set of results" after a turbulent 2016. The London-based giant has been on a recovery drive over the past two years aiming to slash costs with measures including laying off tens of thousands of staff and slimming down its business. It blamed the d ... more
Hong Kong (AFP) May 3, 2017
Hong Kong firm snaps up London skyscraper in $1.47bn deal
New York (AFP) May 4, 2017
US jury convicts ex-Guinea minister over China bribes
Sydney (AFP) May 1, 2017
Tech billionaire buys Sydney mansion for record price
Gulbuddin Hekmatyar: Afghan ex-PM and 'butcher of Kabul'
Kabul (AFP) May 4, 2017
Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, who returned to Kabul Thursday after more than 20 years, is one of Afghanistan's most notorious warlords, chiefly remembered for his siege of the capital in the bloody civil war of the 1990s. A former prime minister, Hekmatyar was a prominent anti-Soviet commander in the 1980s and stands accused of killing thousands of people in Kabul from 1992 to 1996, a period when var ... more
Washington (AFP) May 4, 2017
Pentagon to request thousands more troops for Afghanistan next week
Washington (AFP) May 2, 2017
US aims to eliminate IS from Afghanistan this year
Lashkar Gah, Afghanistan (AFP) April 29, 2017
US Marines return to Helmand; IS Afghan leader maybe dead
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Climate instability over the past 720,000 years
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) May 04, 2017
A research group formed by 64 researchers from the National Institute of Polar Research, the University of Tokyo, and other organizations analyzed atmospheric temperatures and dust for the past 720,000 years using an ice core obtained at Dome Fuji in Antarctica. Results indicate that when intermediate temperatures occurred within a glacial period, the climate was highly unstable and fluctu ... more
Vienna (AFP) April 30, 2017
Cities brace for climate challenges
Suva, Fiji (AFP) May 3, 2017
Fiji urges Trump to honour Paris climate deal
Geneva (AFP) May 2, 2017
1.4 million children acutely malnourished in Somalia this year: UN


Activity resumes at North Korea nuclear test site: monitor
Seoul (AFP) May 3, 2017
Satellite images indicate activity has resumed at North Korea's nuclear test site, US-based analysts said Tuesday, as tensions remain high over fears of an sixth atomic test by the reclusive state. Images of the Punggye-ri site captured on April 25 appear to show workers pumping out water at a tunnel believed to have been prepared for an upcoming nuclear test, monitoring group 38 North said. ... more
Beijing (AFP) May 3, 2017
China's military pact with N.Korea looks shaky
Washington (AFP) May 4, 2017
US urges SE Asia allies to shun North Korea
Seoul (AFP) May 5, 2017
N.Korea leader revisits island strike site: media
Hong Kong remembers bloodiest violence 50 years on
Hong Kong (AFP) May 4, 2017
Hong Kong is unrecognisable now from the city which 50 years ago was the scene of bloody riots, fuelled by resentment of colonial rule and inspired by the Cultural Revolution unfolding in China. But although memories of the bomb-strewn chaos of 1967 have faded, the city is facing a new era of turbulence as democracy activists take on Beijing and many ordinary residents still struggle to mak ... more
Beijing (AFP) May 3, 2017
12 dead in tunnel blast in southwest China
Yuxian, China (AFP) May 1, 2017
Opera troupe tours rural China defending a dying art
Hong Kong (AFP) April 29, 2017
World's only Tiananmen museum returns to Hong Kong
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Fishing with guns on a lake under threat in Kenya
Lowarengak, Kenya (AFP) May 5, 2017
The beach looks ready for war: in the sparse lakeshore shade hundreds wait, sweaty from the heat, weapons at their feet. In Kenya's hot, dry and lawless north even the fishermen are armed, but guns will not save them. They live on Lake Turkana, the biggest desert lake on earth and a World Heritage Site, but the lake is threatened and so is their way of life. "There are fewer and fewe ... more
Bamako (AFP) May 3, 2017
Rocket attack on UN camp in Mali kills one, wounds 9
Lusanga, Dr Congo (AFP) April 27, 2017
Congolese plantation sprouts art centre to help the poor
Djibouti (AFP) April 24, 2017
US Defense Secretary Mattis visits strategic Djibouti
Rheinmetall picks armaments services supplier Australian vehicle contract
Washington (UPI) May 3, 2017
Rheinmetall Defense Australia has picked NOIA as its supplier of ammunition and armament services in its bid to supply Australia with armored vehicles. Rheinmetall said it has a long-standing commercial relationship with NOIA through its weapon and munitions arm, Rheinmetall Weapons and Munitions. "Working side by side on our Land 400 Phase 2 offer represents a natural next step ... more
Washington (UPI) May 2, 2017
BAE partners with Czech firm on mortar system
Washington (UPI) May 4, 2017
Engility to continue support for DITRA
Washington (UPI) May 4, 2017
Cubic Global Defense to provide training support services for British army


Navy installs submarine rescue system in merchant vessel
Washington (UPI) May 3, 2017
http://www.navy.mil/submit/display.asp?story_id=100172 A submarine rescue diving and recompression system has been installed on a Military Sealift Command-chartered merchant vessel by the U.S. Navy. The SRDRS was installed aboard the HOS Dominator by the Navy's Undersea Rescue Command and contractor Phoenix Holdings International. The HOS Dominator is normally used for tra ... more
Washington (UPI) May 3, 2017
Boeing cancels Harpoon contract
Washington (UPI) May 3, 2017
Australia commissions Austal patrol boat
Beijing (Sputnik) Apr 26, 2017
What China's 1st domestically-built aircraft carrier means
Students Taste Sweet Smell of Success in Culinary Challenge
Houston TX (SPX) May 04, 2017
Strawberries, rhubarb, rolled oats, flour, coconut sugar, orange juice and a pinch of orange zest. Those are the basic ingredients in a recipe that high school students have cooked up for astronauts to enjoy aboard the International Space Station. Twenty-eight teams of high school students from Alabama, New Jersey, New York, Colorado, Virginia and the Houston and Dallas areas competed in r ... more
Phoenix AZ (SPX) May 03, 2017
Honeywell And Paragon To Create Life Support Technology For Future NASA Space Missions
Daytona Beach, FL (SPX) May 01, 2017
12 Scientist-Astronaut Candidates Graduate at Embry-Riddle Through Project PoSSUM
Vancouver (AFP) April 30, 2017
Elon Musk teases future plans at TED


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