The photograph was taken by the crew on board the Columbia during its last mission, on a cloudless day. The picture is of Europe and Africa when the sun is setting. Half of the picture is in night time... more »

The aurora is a crown of light that circles each of Earth’s poles. The IMAGE satellite captured this view of the aurora australis (southern lights) on September 11, 2005, four days after a record-setting solar flare sent plasma—an ionized gas of protons and electrons—flying towards the Earth. The ring of light that the solar .. more »

Notepad is very popular window app for note taking and it had clouded much more advanced word pad over the years and still remains to be the ultimate note taking utility for windows users. But not any more..... over couple of years notepad replacements have flocked the market which are as slick as notepad and much more advanced.. more »

I recommend the below as the top 5 Science-Tech news/articles websites across the internet today. Please add other interesting sites to the list. .. more »

The below is the famous picture of the demonstration of the first telephone by Graham Bell Year - 1892 Place - New York (calling to Chicago) .. more »

The image above traces the path of the Indian Ocean Tsunami which occurred in 2004. Click for better View .. more »

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There may be more than a billion people in India, but even an Internet superstar like Google Inc. has trouble recruiting talented locals in its South Asian operations, a board member said Tuesday .. more »

get all the latest web 2.0 stuff by a tool bar .. more »

The pitch for the product line will centre on its inclusion of "noise-cancelling" headphones, a three-line colour display and 1-4GB of storage capacity. .. more »

Now an Italian design company called Keymat Industrie has brought bling into the home by introducing the $130,000 Yalos Diamonds TV, which features a diamond studded white gold frame, holding at least 20 carats of the precious gems in its own grill .. more »

This has a pretty good roundup of cool ways you can take advantage of your Gmail account. .. more »

The groundbreaking US $1.5 billion Rotating City will be up and running by 2011 .. more »

A London school is to embark on a trial to fingerprint children when they return to school. Holland Park School is believed to be one of the first schools in the UK to seek to fingerprint every pupil in an effort to monitor their attendance. The school said it will test the system, costing about £4,500, on pupils who are late to school from next .. more »

An Interesting read, which focuses on the swinging indo-us relationship. "In her groundbreaking study "Indo-U.S. Military Relationship: Expectations and Perceptions," Juli A. McDonald quotes a U.S. major general on the different criteria of success for the U.S. and Indian militaries. The Indians, he says, "will laud the relationship as a success .. more »