New Delhi, Sep 30 : Russia will start deliveries of MiG-29K Fulcrum-D carrier fighters to India in the spring of 2009.

Russia and India signed a contract on January 20, 2004, stipulating the delivery of 12 single-seater MiG-29K and four two-seater MiG-29KUB by 2009, to be deployed on the Admiral Gorshkov, currently being retrofitted in Russia for the Indian Navy.

“The first four MiG-29K aircraft will be delivered to India in the spring of 2009,” said Mikhail Globenko, marketing director of MiG.

Washington, September 30 : A new research has suggested that as seawater becomes more acidic because of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere dissolving in the oceans, an unexpected side effect is taking place in the form of sounds traveling farther underwater.

The research has been conducted by marine chemists at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute in California, US.

Conservative projections by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) suggest that the chemistry of seawater could change by 0.3 pH units by 2050.

Keith Hester and his coauthors calculate that this change in ocean acidity would allow sounds to travel up to 70 percent farther underwater.

Washington, September 30 : In a discovery that is nothing less than astonishing, NASA’s Phoenix Mars Lander has detected snow falling from Martian clouds.

A laser instrument designed to gather knowledge of how the atmosphere and surface interact on Mars, detected snow from clouds about 2.5 miles above the spacecraft’s landing site.

Data show the snow vaporizing before reaching the ground.

Washington, Sept 30 : Engineers from Georgia Tech Research Institute have developed a new honeycomb like materials that can reduce aircraft engine noise more effectively than conventional methods.

A honeycomb is a mass of hexagonal wax cells built by honey bees in their nests to contain their larvae and stores of honey and pollen.

The new microchanneled material developed by research engineer Jason Nadler can reduce engine noise by wearing it down through a process called viscous shear.

Viscous shear involves the interaction of a solid with a gas or other fluid. In this case, a gas - sound waves composed of compressed air - contacts a solid, the porous medium, and is weakened by the resulting friction.

Due to some adverse fault in the security of the Adobe Systems software, the freeloaders are enjoying their time by downloading free movies from the Amazon’s video streaming service. The flaw has given freedom to anyone to record and copy direct from Amazon’s video feed. 

Recently it was learnt that the first update to the DS is under the process of development at Nintendo, and the company will unveil it soon. This new upgrade, which will use photos in games, will also feature an integrated camera. 

The company has also undertaken the aim to expand the handheld's role as a wireless data device and further will invent a look for the system that is more user-friendly. A report however informs that the DS will be launched by Nintendo by December and the prices for the homeland will be kept under $189.