Beijing:The number of organ donations and transplants in China hit a record-high after it banned the use of executed prisoners’ organs early this year, making voluntary donation from citizens the only legitimate channel. “More than 6,000 organs had been donated by over 2,000 donors as of early October, marking a record-high after January’s ban prompted…

YouTube may soon charge you for premium video content. The company reportedly plans to offer a subscription service that will give users access to exclusive programming. The Google-owned video site plans to announce some of the content that will be made available to subscribers at an event on October 21. The price of the subscription service is currently…

Washington, Oct 19:   A US government investigation is said to have found evidence of Wal-Mart Stores Inc allegedly paying thousands of small bribes to Indian officials to get customs clearances and obtain real-estate permits, the Wall Street Journal has reported. Vast majority of payments were below USD 200 (about Rs. 13,000 at current exchange rate)…

BEIJING: Communist China has overtaken capitalist United States in the richie rich list with 596 billionaires to America’s 537. The stunning jump has taken place in the last one year — spurred by the rise of China’s riches in technology and manufacturing — despite a slowing economy, according to a survey released on Thursday. If…

For a manned mission to Mars, a detour to the moon is the best route to Mars as it could fuel up and streamline cargo by 68 percent, said a study. Since launching humans to Mars may not require a full tank of gas, the study by MIT suggests that a Martian mission may lighten…

A major Kiwi-led study has painted a dire picture of Antarctica’s future under climate change, with models simulating heavy ice loss under all but one optimistic scenario. The study, published today in the major journal Nature and led by Dr Nicholas Golledge of Victoria University’s Antarctic Research Centre and GNS Science, drew on state-of-the-art computer…

For years, Facebook has talked about beaming Internet services from space. Now, that sci-fi goal could become a reality. Facebook announced on Monday that it had joined with Eutelsat, a French satellite company, to provide a selection of free Internet services across sub-Saharan Africa using a satellite that would start orbiting the globe in the…

The 3D Printed Mars Habitat Challenge organized by NASA results are out. There were more than 165 submissions that were then narrowed to 30 best entries. The first-place award of $25,000 went to Team Space Exploration Architecture and Clouds Architecture Office for their design, Mars Ice House. The second place was grabbed by Team Gamma…

London:  British spies can hack into phones remotely with a simple text message and make audio recordings or take photos without owners knowing, former US intelligence contractor Edward Snowden said on Monday. “They want to own your phone instead of you,” the whistleblower said in an interview with the BBC’s Panorama programme, referring to Britain’s…

LONDON: Japanese scientist Takaaki Kajita and Canadian physicist Arthur B McDonald have won the Nobel prize in Physics 2015 “for the discovery of neutrino oscillations, which shows that neutrinos have mass”. Neutrinos are one of the fundamental particles which make up the universe. These subatomic particles produced by the decay of radioactive elements that lack…