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  • Centre cites blast role for Simi ban

    &ltp>&ltfont size="2">&ltstrong&gtNew Delhi, Aug. 20: Citing Ahmedabad serial blasts to buttress its stand, the Centre on Wednesday approached the Supreme Court seeking...
    2008-08-20 18:43:26
  • Textiles: Frayed fabric

    The footfalls in the stores of Aditya Birla Nuvo ABNL are believed to have fallen in the June 2008 quarter while garment manufacturer Kewal Kiran, which retails the bulk of its products, has seen...
    2008-08-19 04:49:25
  • When Less Fabric Is More

    Women say smaller Olympics uniforms are more comfortable, get better results.&ltimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AbcNews_TopStories/~4/367968042" height="1" />...
    2008-08-18 05:00:00
  • Star Trek warp drive comes closer to reality

    London, Aug 17 ANI: Star Trek fantasies of interstellar civilisations and voyages powered by warp drive may no longer be the exclusive domain of science fiction writers, with two physicists from Baylor devising a new scheme to travel faster than the speed of light. Associate Professor Gerald Cleaver and Richard Obousy have come up with a novel idea to produce a warp drive that they believe can travel faster than the speed of light, without breaking the laws of physics.A starship could "warp" space so that it shrinks ahead of the vessel and expands behind it.By pushing the departure point many light years backwards while simultaneously bringing distant stars and other destinations closer, the warp drive effectively transports the starship from place to place at faster-than-light speeds.According to the physicists, scientists would require to harness a mysterious and poorly understood cosmic antigravity force, called dark energy.The dark energy is believed to be responsible for speeding up the expansion rate of the universe as time moves on, just like it did after the Big Bang, when the universe expanded much faster than the speed of light for a very brief time.According to relativity theory, matter cannot move through space faster than the speed of light, which is almost 300,000,000 metres per second. But that theory applies only to unwarped 'flat' space.There is no limit on the speed with which space itself can move: the spaceship can sit at rest in a small bubble of space that flows at "superluminal" - faster than light - velocities through normal space because the fabric of space and time itself scientists refer to spacetime is stretching.According to Cleaver dark energy would be used to create the bubble: if dark energy can be made negative in front of the ship, then that patch of space would contract in response."Think of it like a surfer riding a wave," the Telegraph quoted Dr Cleaver, as saying. "The ship would be pushed by the spatial bubble and the bubble would be travelling faster than the speed of light," he added.The new warp drive work also draws on "string theory", which suggests the universe is made up of multiple dimensions. We are used to four dimensions - height, width, length and time but string theorists believe that there are a total of 10 dimensions and it is by changing the size of this 10th spatial dimension in front of the space ship that the Baylor researchers believe could alter the strength of the dark energy in such a manner to propel the ship faster than the speed of light. ANI
    2008-08-17 04:00:00
  • Figure meets fiber: With textiles and fabrics, dolls become high art

    Art, when it's really good, has the power to change our perception of ordinary things. Think Georgia O'Keefe and flowers or Picasso and the female form....
    2008-08-16 15:49:44
  • Self-Growing Material Opens Chip, Storage Advances

    coondoggie brings us this NetworkWorld article, which begins: "In the ever-growing desire to produce smaller, less costly, yet more powerful and faster computers and storage devices, researchers ...
    2008-08-15 21:10:16
  • Threat to state

    Euphoria has a tendency to evaporate. Less than a month ago, a beaming prime minister faced the nation with brimming confidence. He had won the trust vote in the Lok Sabha, rid himself of the Left and...
    2008-08-15 19:46:31
  • Indo Rama to invest Rs 400 cr in Himachal Pradesh

    The Indonesia-based S P Lohia-promoted Indo Rama SPL group, with business interest in diverse fields such as power, petrochemicals and spun yarn, has decided to set up a stretch fabric manufacturing u...
    2008-08-15 16:38:41
  • Family ties unbind in Haigh's 'The Condition'

    The ties that bind those anchoring, strangling threads are the fabric of The Condition, Jennifer Haigh's new novel about a ...&ltp>&lta href="http://rssfeeds.usatoday.com/~a/Usat...
    2008-08-15 10:08:30
  • Pandering to the green consumer

    Life & style: Bamboo is touted as a super-sustainable fabric, but do its ethical credentials hold water By Kate Carter...
    2008-08-13 06:12:48
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