Archive for the ‘Sci & Tech’ category
Int’l Consumer Electronics Show in US
Customers communicate with the health coach Autom during the 2011 International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, the United States, Jan. 8, 2011. The 2011 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) run from Jan. 6 to Jan. 9, as companies from around the world unveiled many of their latest offerings along with outlining their visions for [...]
Amazing natural phenomenon parhelion appears in NE China
A parhelion (sundog) combined with a halo is seen in Changchun, capital of northeast China’s Jilin Province, Jan. 8, 2011. The weather phenomenon is created by ice crystals in the atmosphere during a cold weather period. (Xinhua/Wang Haofei) A parhelion (sundog) combined with a halo is seen in Changchun, capital of northeast China’s Jilin Province, [...]
MIT celebrates 150th anniversary with exhibition
Reporters are reflected in the case containing the 1973 model from the discovery of the structure of tRNA at the press preview for the MIT 150 Exhibition at the MIT Museum, celebrating Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s 150 year anniversary, in Cambridge, Massachusetts January 7, 2011. (Xinhua/Reuters Photo) Dr. Debbie Douglas, curator of Science and Technology, [...]
Consumer Electronics Show kicks off in Las Vegas
Imperial stormtroopers from the movie Star Wars take up positions at the Panasonic booth the Blu-ray release of the complete Star Wars movie saga during the first day of the 2011 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, Nevada January 6, 2011. It was announced by Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment President Mike Dunn [...]
Partial solar eclipse observed in Moscow
Photo taken on Jan. 4, 2011, shows a partial solar eclipse in Moscow, capital of Russia. (Xinhua/Lu Jinbo) Photo taken on Jan. 4, 2011, shows a partial solar eclipse in Moscow, capital of Russia. (Xinhua/Lu Jinbo) Photo taken on Jan. 4, 2011, shows a partial solar eclipse in Moscow, capital of Russia. (Xinhua/Lu Jinbo) Photo [...]
China announces nuclear fuel breakthrough
This Dec 26, 2008 file photo shows a huge construction site of the expansion project of the two million-kw generating units in the Qinshan Nuclear Power Plant in Haiyan, East China’s Zhejiang province. [Photo/Xinhua] BEIJING, Jan. 3 (Xinhuanet) — Chinese scientists have made a breakthrough in spent fuel reprocessing technology that could potentially solve China’s [...]
Greenpeace marks start of Hungary’s EU presidency with list of demands
Greenpeace activists with eyeball-shaped helmets line up outside the Hungarian Foreign Ministry in Budapest January 3, 2011. The activists said Hungary, which took the rotating presidency of the European Union on January 1, should tackle issues such as CO2 emissions, genetically modified crops, pollution and renewable energy. (Xinhua/Reuters Photo) BUDAPEST, Jan. 3 (Xinhua) — Environmental [...]
IPhone glitch gives users a late start to New Year
A customer looks at an iPhone 4 at the Apple Store 5th Avenue in New York June 24, 2010. (Xinhua/Reuters File Photo) BEIJING, Jan. 3 (Xinhuanet) — Some Apple’s iPhone users complained that the smart phone’s built-in alarm clock failed to wake them up on the first two days of 2011, media reports said on [...]
Auto show in E China
People visit an automobile show in Huai’an, east China’s Jiangsu Province, Jan. 1, 2011. China’s auto market grew rapidly in the past two years. Meanwhile, traffic congestion is now a spreading problem across the country. Various measures have been adopted to control growing traffic jams in some cities of China. (Xinhua) A model poses during [...]
China’s 4G technology to go global
A booth promoting 4G services at a telecommunications exhibition in Beijing. China on Friday approved wide-ranging tests of new TD-LTE technology in six major cities. (Photo: China Daily) BEIJING, Jan. 1 (Xinhuanet) — China’s homegrown fourth-generation (4G) telecommunication technology is expected to go global and be widely adopted by 2015, with countries in Africa and [...]