Monthly Archives: May 2011

Heiderberg Man Was Last Common Ancestor of Humans and Neanderthals

Posted on May 5, 2011 by Rashid Faridi

A Consensus is building that Homo heidelbergensis, “Heidelberg Man,” was the last common ancestor of Neanderthals and our species.Anthropologists believe Heidelberg Man was tall and had a strong jaw holding small teeth.The evolutionary split between Neanderthals and modern humans may have … Continue reading →

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Indian Scientists at Hyderabad and AMU Deny the Existence of Higgs Boson

Posted on May 3, 2011 by Rashid Faridi

Indian scientists, B. G. Sidharth, Director of the B. M. Birla Science Centre at Hyderabad, and Syed Afsar Abbas, Professor at the Physics Department of Aligarh Muslim University (AMU), have denied the possibility of existence of Higgs boson, also known … Continue reading →

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India’s fastest Green Supercomputer by ISRO

Posted on May 3, 2011 by Rashid Faridi

Indian Space Research Organisation has built a supercomputer, which is to be India’s fastest in terms of theoretical peak performance of 220 TeraFLOPS (220 Trillion Floating Point Operations per second).The supercomputer “SAGA-220”, built by the Satish Dhawan Supercomputing Facility located … Continue reading →

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657 New Islands Discovered

Posted on May 1, 2011 by Rashid Faridi

What is an Island? Land that is surrounded by water. Islands are always being created and sometimes destroyed. Earth has 657 more barrier islands than previously thought, according to a new global survey by researchers from Duke University and Meredith … Continue reading →

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