Wednesday, December 14th, 2011
Ed Linacre, an industrial design graduate of Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, has won the 2011 James Dyson Award for his Airdrop irrigation system. In developing the promising new irrigation-by-condensation technique, Linacre has captured the attention of...
Wednesday, December 14th, 2011
Downscaled models and better evidence about what the large models are saying about future threats for these regions are drastically needed. It is also essential to mainstream the authoritative collection of weather station data, to make it...
Saturday, December 10th, 2011
At an event hosted by a private college to commemorate the launch of Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) C-18, Associate Director of Thiruvananthapuram based Vikram Sarabhai Space Center, John P Zachariah said that indigenous Indian space technology...
Saturday, December 10th, 2011
The Korea Aerospace Research Institute said that a multi-purpose satellite named Arirang-5 will take off from the Yasny rocket launch site in Russia next year. One of four Korean satellites planned for 2012, the Arirang-5 is the nation's...
Saturday, December 10th, 2011
Kanpur Nagar Nigam (KNN) has won an award for creating unique geographical information system (GIS), designed to locate the houses in the city. Municipal commissioner R Vikram Singh praised the efforts of the staff and emphasized to maintain standards in...
Wednesday, December 7th, 2011
The State of Land and Water Resources (SOLAW) is FAO's first flagship publication on the global status of land and water resources. It is an 'advocacy' report, to be published every three to five years, and targeted...
Wednesday, December 7th, 2011
The Russian head of the Ministry of Communications and Mass Media Igor Schegolev announced that a significant number of mobile device producers have started using GLONASS-enabled navigational chips, Rossiyskaya Gazeta writes. Quote "Two navigational systems are better...
Tuesday, December 6th, 2011
Marine researchers in the Cook Islands are hoping a new survey can determine a link between poor water quality at beaches and sickness experienced by swimmers. The Ministry of Marine Resources is conducting the three week survey in...
