Archive for January, 2010
Women Nobel Laureates Of 2009
Posted by MND in Awards and Prizes on January 22, 2010
The Nobel Foundation started in 1900 based on the will and testament of Alfred Nobel written on 27th November 1895. As per his wish, the award should be given to those who make outstanding contributions to the mankind in the five areas, Physics, Chemistry, Medicine or Physiology, Literature, and Peace, while Economics category added later in 1968. Bertha von Suttner was effective in convincing Alfred Nobel to establish… Continue reading
Major Earthquake in 200 Years Hit Haiti
On Jan 12th 2010 Haiti was struck by a major earthquake. The earthquake showed 7.0 magnitudes on Richter scale. The capital city of Haiti is completely reduced to rubble. This is the second largest earthquake in Haiti and the most powerful disaster occurred after 200 years.
Due to the earthquake, communication was disrupted, electricity was out in some places and relief is largely hampered due to… Continue reading
HIOC completing its one year of providing useful information about Hyderabad
Released by: Hyderabad-india-online.com
Hyderabad-india-online.com which has been on the forefront in providing useful and functional information about Hyderabad is completing its one year.
During this one year it completed its first phase of execution in which it focused on content development and layout formation of the website. Hyderabad-india-online.com (HIOC) has also added several sections containing information about radio stations in Hyderabad, Hyderabad biryani, Hyderabad map, Hyderabad… Continue reading
2010 Solar eclipse is the longest in the millennium and will be for next 1000 years to come
The annual solar eclipse on January, 15 2010 created a history as the longest solar eclipse of the century, the longest until, December 23, 3043. The maximum length of the solar eclipse is 11 mins and 7.8 seconds. The eclipse was fully visible in parts of Asia and partially visible in Africa, Eastern Europe, the Middle East and Asia. The annular eclipse was visible within a 300 km… Continue reading
Google Threatens to Quit China
Google, one of the major Internet search engines said that it is ready to pull out of China the biggest Internet user nation because of the increasing sophisticated attacked on its online properties and censorship on search results in the country. China announced a major breach of Gmail accounts of Chinese human rights activists by hackers is the latest attack. Google stated that it is no longer willing… Continue reading
Effects and Causes of Global Warming
Global warming means raising the temperature of the earth due to green house effect. The earth temperature rises due to green house gases trap light and heat from the sun in the earth’s atmosphere. The green house gases are carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide and water vapor.
The causes for global warming are emission of carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide emissions. The large amount of… Continue reading
Vaccines Produced To Protect Against 2009 HINI Swine Flu
The 2009 H1N1 Swine flu is a new influenza virus that caused havoc across the globe. The symptoms of swine flu disease are fever, cough, sore throat, body ache, and head ache. This was first detected in U.S., and spread immediately among the people in the world. However, because of the efforts of the global scientific community vaccines for this menace are now available.
Vaccines are… Continue reading
The World’s First Major Renewable Energy Economy by Germany
Germany is top among the nations of energy sustainability. Generating the energy from natural resources is called as renewable energy. The renewable energy sources are sun, wind, hydro power, biological processes, and geothermal processes.
Germany is putting efforts to become the world’s first industrial power to use 100 percent renewable energy. The director of renewable energy and resources at Germany trade and invest supporting the country’s… Continue reading
NASA launches Kepler Mission
The Kepler Mission is designed to discover Earth-sized planets in or near the habitable zone and orbiting other stars in the Milky Way. The mission was launched on 7th March 2009. It is named in honor of Johannes Kepler, a German astronomer. The minimum lifetime of the mission is 3.5 years. Kepler uses a photometer to continuously monitor more than 145,000 main sequence stars in a fixed field… Continue reading
Discovery of water in a significant amount on Moon
NASA has vindicated the earlier clues of water particles on moon’s surface supporting the evidence from the ‘Deep Impact’ and ‘Cassini’ probes.
NASA crashed a rocket and along with a Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) into a crater on the moon recently in October 2009. NASA selected this unique crater named Cabeus situated on the south pole of the moon because it is permanently… Continue reading