Washington, May 13 (DPA) An inspection of the space shuttle Atlantis Tuesday revealed damage to tiles on one of the craft’s wing, a NASA official said.
The routine examination one day after Atlantis’ launch from Kennedy Space Centre in Florida on a mission to repair the Hubble Space Telescope noted “four tiles with some dings (small dents) in them”, said Tony Ceccacci, the mission’s lead flight director, noting the damage looked “very minor”.
London, May 12 (IANS) Troubled singer-actress Lindsay Lohan has defended her recently achieved super-skinny figure, insisting she is not “starving” herself following her split from lesbain girlfriend Samantha Ronson.
Lohan’s weight has plummeted in recent weeks and Internet gossip has sparked fears the star is not eating properly following the break-up in March 2009, reports contactmusic.com.
Washington, May 12 (ANI): David Hasselhoff’s ex-wife Pamela Bach has demanded a court order to guarantee that she continues to receive spousal support payments from the actor in case of his death.
Sydney, May 12 (ANI): An inquiry into cyber bullying has revealed that young victims can use friendships on social networking websites to help protect themselves.
Washington, May 12 (IANS) Textile engineering students have thought up of an answer to one of the prime threats bedevilling NASA space missions: radiation.
The students of North Carolina State University (NCSU) have designed a ‘blanket’ that could shield lunar outposts and astronauts’ living quarters from radiation, while generating and storing power.
Washington, May 12 (ANI): An approach based on the mathematical theory of elliptic curves may pave the way much more efficient cryptography — which underpins privacy, confidentiality, and identity to provide the fabric for e-commerce and secure communications — that will be capable of strengthening security against cyber crime and any terrorist attacks via the Internet.
The RSA cryptosystem — introduced by Rivest, Shamir, and Adlement in 1977 — relies for its security on the difficulty of working out the factors dividing large integers. Though it has performed well until now, the level of protection it provides has been eroded by constant efforts to develop more efficient methods for breaking it.
Scientists now say that the mathematical theory of elliptic curves may turn out to be helpful in developing more efficient cryptography capable of providing the optimum combination of security and processing efficiency.
Washington, May 12 (ANI): A group of students at North Carolina State University, US, has developed a “blanket†of sorts that covers lunar outposts, in an attempt to provide astronauts protection against radiation, while also generating and storing power.
London, May 12 (ANI): British capital London has emerged as the intelligence hub of Somali pirates, a report has claimed.
London, May 12 (ANI): Singer Rihanna has finally broken her dignified silence after a long time, as she has apparently lashed out at her alleged attacker Chris Brown through her latest track titled ‘Silly Boy’.
Toronto, May 12 (IANS) Scientists have warned that outer space is becoming too crowded with satellites and the debris of dead satellites to pose dangers to mankind.