Skype for Windows beta versions give you the chance to try new features and enjoy improvements in call quality before they’re officially released to the public. They’re also an opportunity to contribute to the ongoing development of Skype and have your say on how it works.
Skype-to-Skype calls, video calls and instant messaging are free, any [...]

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Tornado warning in Santa Cruz, San Jose, Bay Area‎
The National Weather Service has issued a tornado warning for San Jose and The Bay Area, today, Wednesday. The NWS issued a tornado warning for parts of Monterey, Santa Cruz and Santa Clara counties in the San Francisco Bay Area. This happened after wind gusts as [...]

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A leading global designer and developer of OEM wireless solutions for ultra-low-power (ULP) and long-range sensor/actuator monitoring networks, Elster Group company Coronis  has announced the selection and the successful integration of the CORTUS APS3 CPU core into Coronis’ next generation System-on-Chip solution. The Cortus APS3 processor is easy to integrate, excellent code density, very low [...]

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A series of scientific blunders have admitted that a warning may melt most of the Himalayan glaciers by 2035.
It has also emerged that the New Scientist report was itself based on a short telephone interview with Syed Hasnain, an obscure Indian scientist then based at Jawaharlal Nehru University in Delhi.
In the past few days, [...]

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Solar eclipse 15.01.2010. in Sarny,Ukraine

New solar goggles to watch solar eclipse on January 15, 2010

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Best Place to watch the eclipse of 2010 in India: Dhanushkodi in Pamban Island off Tamil Nadu coast
Best Time: 13.20 hrs IST (viewable for full 10.4 min in India)

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Kochi, Jan 14 (IANS) It is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity and scientists from across the globe are thronging southern India to watch the ‘Ring of Fire’ during the millennium’s longest annular solar eclipse Friday. The southern tips of Kerala and Tamil Nadu will offer the best view of the moon obscuring the sun.

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Washington, Jan 14 (IANS) Astronomers have detected an extrasolar planet with a mass just four times that of Earth.
The planet, which orbits its parent star HD156668 about once every four days, is the second-smallest world among the more than 400 exoplanets (planets located outside our solar system) that have been found to date.
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Toronto, Jan 14 (IANS) Canadian researchers are on the threshold of pioneering a new technology that will revolutionise purification of drinking water and sewage, they say.
Though current technologies can clean water by removing dirt particles and killing the germs, they fail to filter out tiny toxic waste coming from drugs, pesticides and cosmetics.
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Kolkata, Jan 13 (IANS) The union environment ministry has given its clearance to the proposed nuclear power plant project in Haripur in West Bengal, Minister of State for Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh said here Wednesday.
Asked about the opposition to the project voiced by United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government partner Trinamool Congress, the minister said: [...]

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Fog may play spoilsport during solar eclipse Jan 15
New Delhi, Jan 13 (IANS) As the capital’s residents eagerly await the millennium’s longest annular solar eclipse Jan 15 – even if seen only partially from here, dense fog predicted early in the day by the Met department may play spoilsport in viewing the celestial phenomenon.
D.P. Yadav, [...]

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Planetary scientists have discovered two Earth-sized bodies with oxygen rich atmospheres — however, they are not planets but are actually two unusual white dwarf stars.
The two white dwarf stars SDSS 0922+2928 and SDSS 1102+2054 are 400 and 220 light years from Earth are both the remnants of massive stars that are at the end of [...]

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There is some good news and some bad news for doomsday pundits, in the sense that the chances of asteroid Apophis colliding with Earth in 2036 has been reduced, but a new impact possibility of the same asteroid has come up in the year 2068.

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India’s first moon mission has achieved a historic first by discovering water on the lunar surface. This is being hailed not only as a landmark breakthrough in space science but also as a vindication of the mission itself, since the two-year project got terminated after just 10 months. The water divining was done by a [...]

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As news trickled out about Indian maiden lunar mission tracing water molecules on the moon’s surface, scientists rejoiced at the discovery and hope that it will pave the way for growing vegetation in the earth’s natural satellite in future.

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The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) on Monday launched an all weather spy satellite at 6:45 a.m. from the spaceport in Sriharikota, boosting India’s defence surveillance capabilities.
The PSLV-C12 rocket ascended towards the sky and placed its first Radar Imaging Satellite (RISAT 2) and micro-educational satellite ANUSAT into orbit about 19 minutes later in a textbook [...]

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A modest eclipse of the moon will occur early Monday morning, Feb 9. The outer portion of Earth’s shadow will cover part of the moon, causing a slight darkening of the moon.
Sky watchers will not see a dramatic “bite” taken out of the moon as occurs with a partial eclipse. Nor will the moon get [...]

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On the evening of December 1st, skywatchers in the Americas will see the crescent Moon joining the two planets to make a remarkably compact celestial triangle. Visit the given link to view the details of it.

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