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September 2008

Shuttle Launch delayed due to Problem in Hubble

A problem with one of the Hubble Space Telescope’s computers prompted NASA to delay next month’s shuttle Atlantis maintenance mission until February next year. Earlier, the Hubble maintenance mission had been targeted for takeoff on October 14.

On September 27, Hubble’s Control Unit/Science Data Formatter - Side A started to show problems in storing and sending [...]

Secondhand Smoke can make Kids Nicotine Addict

Smoking is injurious to health. And even secondhand smoke can harm a lot. We all know about this fact. But the findings of a new study by Canadian researchers points towards another harmful affect of smoking. The researchers found that secondhand smoke can turn kids into nicotine addicts.

During the study the researchers looked at [...]

Dinner In The Sky Pictures

Want to go for an interesting dinner? Think about Dinner In The Sky, a Belgian based novelty restaurant which uses a crane to hoist its diners, table, and waitstaff 150 feet into the air. Dinner in the Sky was created by Belgian events management company The Fun Group and creative agency Hakuna Matata, partnering with [...]

Madonna Fined for Breaking Wembley Stadium Curfew

Pop star Madonna has been fined GBP135,000 (about $250,000) by Wembley Stadium officials for breaking the venue’s limit during a performance. Madonna went beyond the stadium’s strict 10.30 p.m. curfew by 40 minutes during her performance on 11 September. The show was a part of her Sticky & Sweet world tour. Now, she has been [...]

Tim Burton starts shooting “Alice in Wonderland”

Hollywood director Tim Burton has started filming the “Alice in Wonderland” in Cornwall. “Alice in Wonderland” is a screen adaptation of Lewis Carroll’s classic story of the same name.

Mia Wasikowska, a 18-year-old Australian actress, plays the lead in the movie. Hollywood actor Johnny Depp will play the role of Mad Hatter. Matt Lucas and David [...]

Evidence of Ancient Groundwater Flows found on Mars

NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has sent back some interesting data that revealed hundreds of small fractures exposed on the Martian surface, which scientists believe that billions of years ago directed flows of water through underground sandstone of Martian soil.

Scientists studied the images taken by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter’s High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment, or HiRISE [...]

Oprah Winfrey to lend Voice for Cartoon Character

Hollywood talk show Queen Oprah Winfrey is set to lend her voice in an upcoming Disney animated movie. Winfrey will lend her voice for the character of ‘Eudora’, who is the mother of the lead character princess ‘Tiana’, a cartoon princess in the upcoming Walt Disney animated film “The Princess and The Frog”.

“Princess and the [...]

Oracle enters Hardware Business

Business software giant Oracle Corp. is selling computer hardware for the first time in its 31-year history, signaling an ambition to become more than a one-stop shop for business software. The expansion announced Wednesday by Chief Executive Larry Ellison calls for Oracle’s sales team to peddle a “database machine” and a smaller storage product, both [...]

Pilot at the Age of 16!

A teenage schoolgirl in UK has just made it to the Guinness Book of World Records’ archives of the world’s cleverest kids, by becoming Britain’s youngest qualified pilot. The name of the girl is Sally Cluley and she is just 16-year-old. Take a look at the picture below.

Sally joined 1947 training squadron at RAF Birstall [...]

Punjabi is not a Barrier for “Heaven On Earth”

Filmmaker Deepa Mehta thinks that language is not a barrier for her latest film “Heaven On Earth”, which is in Punjabi. And this was evident at the recent Toronto Film Festival where the film got a standing ovation.

Set in the Toronto suburb of Brampton, “Heaven On Earth” is the story of a Ludhiana girl, Chand [...]

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