London, August 21 : Two British men are gearing up to try to beat the world land-speed record of 116mph for a wind-powered vehicle.

Eco-entrepreneur Dale Vince and engineer Richard Jenkins, already in Australia preparing their attempt on the record, have revealed that their British-designed and built craft called Greenbird is carbon-neutral.

The pair said that they were following in the footsteps of Donald Campbell, who used several cars and boats named Bluebird to break speed records.

"Campbell did it with the prevalent fuel of the day - we''re doing it with the prevalent fuel of tomorrow," the BBC quoted Vince as saying.

Washington, August 21 : Scientists monitoring satellite images have discovered the continued breakup of two of Greenland’s largest glaciers, which have lead them to predict disintegration of the glaciers in the near future.

A massive 11-square-mile (29-square-kilometer) piece of the Petermann Glacier in northern Greenland broke away between July 10th and by July 24th.

Intel and Yahoo are planning to make television more user friendly. Both have decided to add online capabilities into TV programs.Intel senior vice president Eric Kim said that they are working on "Widget Channel".

This channel will use computer programs for adding online features to television shows and advertising. Twitter, Toshiba, Samsung, eBay, CBS, Blockbuster, and Disney-ABC Television Group and some other companies are developing Widget for Yahoo and Intel.

Intel has developed “system on a chip” which will be used in electronic devices like set-top boxes and digital TVs. Yahoo will provide software support for the desktops and phones. Yahoo News, Yahoo Finance and Flickr will be provided by Yahoo’s Widget.

India will soon enter into the unmanned moon mission. The country would launch Chandrayaan-I by the end of this year.

It was disclosed by space scientist and former ISRO chairman Krishnaswamy Kasturirangan in a book release function.

Seven countries such as Canada, Germany, Italy, Japan, South Korea, France and Britain have already launched their Moon mission.

Washington, August 21 : Scientists have suggested that planting just three rows of trees around poultry farms can cut nuisance emissions of dust, ammonia, and odors from poultry houses.

As part of a research by scientists from the University of Delaware in the US, the findings indicate that some of the emissions can almost be cut by half.

According to George W. Malone from the University of Delaware, trees also provide farms with the added benefit of reducing energy consumption.

Washington, August 21 : Archaeologists digging near the town of Cioroiu Nou, in Dolj country in southern Romania, have come across a Roman fort that might have been the capital of the province of Dacia Malvensis.

“We’ve made some important discoveries. We’re almost certain that we’ve unearthed the capital of Dacia Malvensis, something archaeologists were searching to find for hundred of years,” Mihai Fifor, director of Oltenia Muzeum, told the local press agency NewsIn.

Dolj country is located in southern Romania and almost two millennia ago it was part of the Roman province of Dacia Malvensis.