A Search For Another Earth

The fact that Earth is the only planet having life in the entire universe is a bit unacceptable to the researchers on this planet. It has always been felt that there might be some other planet having life just like us which is the reason why water and other forms of life are being searched on mars or the moon of Saturn.
It is always not practically feasible to send spaceships on different planets for this purpose. Therefore under such circumstances, researches of this kind are done only with the help of high end telescopes or with a space photometer.
One Such telescope/photometer has been developed by NASA to search for another earth or earth-like planets in this universe. Kepler is the name given to this space photometer and this name has been given in the honor of Johannes Kepler, a famous scientist of 17th century.
Kepler will observe the brightness of over 100,000 stars over 3.5 years to detect periodical transits of a star by its planets.
Kepler will work to achieve the following goals:

• Determine the number of terrestrial and larger planets there are there in or near the habitable zone of a wide variety of spectral types of stars.
• Determine the range of sizes and shapes of the orbits of these planets.
• Estimate how many planets are there in multiple-star systems.
• Determine the range of orbit size, brightness, size, mass and density of short-period giant planets.
• Identify additional members of each discovered planetary system using other techniques.

A Barber Less Ordinary

With efforts, determination and dedication one can achieve perfection in any skill and make one's own unique identity. In course of doing so many a time one happens do things that are miraculously different. Ansar Sheikh, a 41 year old barber in Azamgarh, Uttar Pradesh has just done something like that. He has mastered the work of cutting the hair by running the scissor not with his hand but with his mouth. Aspiring to be named in the Guinness book of world records, Ansar always wanted to do something different and therefore he worked on and mastered the art of cutting the hair by running scissor with his mouth. With this art of hair cutting he can even give different hair styles with ease.
A few months back, he attempted a unique feat of non-stop hair cutting holding the scissors with his mouth. In this unique act, he started cutting hair by holding the scissors with his mouth for 24 hours from 7 pm on March 1 to 7 pm on March 2, with small breaks for food and water.
Ansar is hopeful that his hard work would one day bear fruit and get his name embossed into the Guinness Book of World Records.

60 Year Old Delivers Twins!

A 60 year old women in western Canada has given birth to twins. The Women and her new born are reportedly absolutely fine. Ranjit Hayer is the name of this women and she has become mother for the first time. Becoming a mother was her life's greatest desire.
About 10 years back, Ranjit and her husband had been to India and paid a doctor for in vitro fertilization but unfortunately the doctor disappeared with their money. The couple then returned to Canada, worked and saved their money once again for the same IVF treatment but were refused the treatment because of Ranjit's over age. The couple was then again compelled to return to India and once again try their luck. This time Ranjit's luck worked-she got donor eggs last year and became pregnant with triplets.
One of Ranjit's embryos had to be terminated for certain medical reasons and she suffered with high blood pressure and diabetes because of the pregnancy with twins. Yet she overcame all these pains and hardships and seven weeks ago gave birth to twin babies at the Foothills hospital in Alberta, Canada.

Cars Will Soon Be Running On Beer!

A Company in America has started with its attempts to manufacture cars that will run on beer! This beer would be nothing but high quality Ethanol itself.
Sierra Nevada Brewing Co., is a California based company which is attempting to develop this technology with the help of e-fuel corporation. The technology will be tested for its efficiency in the current year itself. Ken Grossman- manager of Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. said that this venture will prove to be a big step from the point of view of environment. It will also prove to be a good answer to the question of fuel crises.
The company currently sells 1.6 million gallon beer yeast to the local farmers who make use of it as a feed to their domestic animals. It usually contains 5-8% of alcohol. This percentage of alcohol can be increased to 15% by performing some chemical reactions and processes from which large quantities of ethanol can be obtained. This ethanol can be suitably used as a fuel for vehicles.
So its no wonder if you see even vehicles consuming beer in the near future!