Hackers Try To Cause Seizures On Epilespy Site

Hackers (old Indian for 'losers who still live in their mother's basement'), created animations that sent epileptic users to a page that '"exploded with kaleidoscopic images pulsating with different colors."According to Ken Lowenberg, Senior Director of Web and Print...

Oil-eating bugs may unlock clean energy from crude

If this works, these bugs are going to be unlocking oil like Barry Bonds unlocks home run records."A tiny oil-eating bug that lives deep underground may allow the world's oil industry to unlock energy trapped in trillions of barrels of heavy crude, which is costly and dirty...

City reaches 421-a agreement

"The Bloomberg administration has agreed endorse a state bill reforming the city’s 421-a property tax abatement program in exchange for modest alternations designed to spur middle-income housing in Queens. "

Filipino MIT winners use electricity to spur coral growth

The First Step Coral, a project by a team of Filipinos which won at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, aims to rehabilitate coral reef resources and help increase reef fish populations that would impact positively on the livelihood of fishing communities dependent on...

Quota System: Who are the real beneficiaries? Compiled by Sai.R

"Quota System: Who are the real beneficiaries? Contents 1. Quota system: Beginning of the end for IITs and IIMs Bhamy V Shenoy, Gulf Times, May 26, 2006-------------------------------------- 2. Meeting the challenge of Mandal II, Satish Deshpande & Yogendra Yadav, Hindu...

Quota System: Who are the real beneficiaries? Compiled by Sai.R

"Quota System: Who are the real beneficiaries? Contents 1. Quota system: Beginning of the end for IITs and IIMs Bhamy V Shenoy, Gulf Times, May 26, 2006-------------------------------------- 2. Meeting the challenge of Mandal II, Satish Deshpande & Yogendra Yadav, Hindu...

Gene May Help Spur Breast Cancer's Spread

"Multiple copies of a gene called uPAR are associated with the spread of early-stage breast cancer, U.S. researchers report. The gene offers a promising target for drugs to slow or halt the progression of the disease, says a team from the University of Texas Southwestern...

AMD seeks to maintain server-chip momentum

"SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Advanced Micro Devices Inc. is rolling out the next-generation of its Opteron server-chip, the processor that helped spur the company's revival from an also-ran to a more serious threat to Intel Corp.The release of the processor that powers big...