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Scientists challenge Hawk-eye’s decision-making credibility

Washington, June 13: With Wimbledon just round the corner, scientists have attacked sports decision aids such as the Hawk-Eye system, insisting that such systems should come with a 'health' warning

Scientists using Roadrunner supercomputer to mimic complex brain mechanisms

Washington, June 13: Researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory have started using the Roadrunner supercomputer built by IBM at their facility to mimic extremely complex neurological processes.

Research aircraft to study climate change in remote atmospheric region

Washington, June 13: Scientists are deploying an advanced research aircraft to study a remote atmospheric region that influences climate change by affecting the amount of solar heat that reaches Ea

NASA scientists find new type of comet dust mineral

NASA scientists find new type of comet dust mineralWashington, June 13 : NASA researchers and scientists from the United States, Germany and Japan have found a new mineral in material that likely came from a comet.

The mineral, a manganese silicide named “Brownleeite”, was discovered within an interplanetary dust particle, or IDP, that appears to have originated from comet 26P/Grigg-Skjellerup.

The comet originally was discovered in 1902 and reappears every 5 years.

The team that made the discovery is headed by Keiko Nakamura-Messenger, a space scientist at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston.

Experts broadcast ‘Doritos chips’ ad in space for aliens!

London, June 13 : Experts at the EISCAT European space station on the Norwegian island of Svalbard recently sent an advertisement of the famous Doritos tortilla chips into space, hoping that some a

Spanish researchers unveil cloak of silence

Washington, June 13 : Being disturbed in the middle of the night by noisy neighbours’ blasting out music could soon be a thing of the past, thanks to researchers in Spain, who have shown that metam

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