Washington, October 1 (ANI): A new study by Cornell Medical College researchers has revealed that attitudes toward smoking influence teenagers’ use of multiple drugs—smoking, drinking and using marijuana in combination—and that this manifested itself differently in boys and girls.
Washington, October 1 (ANI): A simulation developed by scientists at Washington University in St. Louis has suggested that the atmosphere of COROT-7b, an exoplanet discovered last February by the COROT space telescope, is made up of the ingredients of rocks.
New Delhi, Oct 1 (IANS) Delhi-based artist Asurvedh crafts birds in bronze and makes them fly out in droves from sculpted homes, nests and cages, symbolising freedom from captivity.
Thekkady (Kerala), Oct 1 (IANS) The toll in the Thekkady boat tragedy touched 37 as five more bodies were recovered Thursday morning, officials said.
The tragedy occurred Wednesday at 5.15 p.m. when the boat carrying 76 tourists capsized in a lake in the Periyar wildlife sanctuary in central Kerala.
Washington, October 1 (ANI): Auburn University experts in Alabama say that security on government, commercial, and educational systems can be significantly improved by using a novel system to filter out denial of service attacks on computer networks, including cloud computing systems.
Reporting about such a filter in the Int. J. Information and Computer Security, the researchers have pointed out that denial of Service (DoS) and distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks involve an attempt to make a computer resource unavailable to its intended users.
This may simply be for malicious purposes as is often the case when big commercial or famous web sites undergo a DDoS attack, they say.
However, according to the researchers, it is also possible to exploit the system’s response to such an attack to break system firewalls, access virtual private networks, and to access other private resources.
They say that a DoS attack can also be used to affect a complete network or even a whole section of the Internet.
Shimla, Oct 1 (IANS) Lt General A.S. Lamba Thursday assumed charge of the Army Training Command (ARTRAC), which is based in this Himachal Pradesh capital, an official statement said.
“Lt General A.S. Lamba is the 15th general officer-in-command of the ARTRAC. He assumed the charge this (Thursday) morning,” the statement said.
New Delhi, Oct 1 (IANS) In artist Rachna Chhachhi’s eyes, the earth is a “despairing woman” weighed down by natural woes.
“I have been trying to raise awareness about ecological degradation through my art and spread the message of conserving fresh water species,” Chhachhi told IANS at the opening of her exhibition at the India Habitat Centre here Wednesday evening.
Rohtak (Haryana), Oct 1 (IANS) At a time when politicians in patriarchal Haryana do not hesitate to show off their luxury SUVs and cars during electioneering, a woman contestant of the ruling Congress in the state is happy to run her campaign for the assembly polls on a motorbike.
Washington, October 1 (ANI): Using computational models of the brain, University of Missouri researchers have found new evidence on how the brain reacts to fear, including important findings that could help victims of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
Chennai, Oct 1 (IANS) With parliamentary elections over in May, election to its lone Rajya Sabha seat recently completed and no major poll in the near future, Election Commission officials in Puducherry are planning to revise the electoral rolls in the union territory.
S. Kumaraswamy, chief electoral officer of Puducherry, told IANS Thursday: “We plan to start the electoral roll revision beginning next year subject to permission from the Election Commission of India.”