Even as a teenager living in India I used to fantasize about visiting Rio de Janeiro. Years later, when I moved to New York, the fantasy got rekindled. It happened when I heard the late Australian singer Peter Allen’s famous song, “When my baby flies with me I go to Rio de Janeiro….” At long last, in November 2001, I wa...
Students at the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine are shaving their heads for St. Baldrick’s, an organization that raises money for children’s cancer research. By shaving their heads, the students are not only raising money, but they help normalize the experience of losing hair during cancer treatment, a process that is quite difficult for ...
NASA's newest American commercial near-space services provider, World View (WV) of Tucson, Arizona, successfully launched its Tycho balloon from Arizona's Pinal Airfield. ...
The new "full-duplex radio integrated circuits" (ICs) can be implemented to enable simultaneous transmission and reception at the same frequency in a wireless radio....
Several outer space tasks like doing repairs and conducting experiments may become a lot easier for astronauts now as NASA is developing augmented reality glasses like Google Glass for them....
Rhishav Choudhury, an Indian student from Guwahati, India, studying at a private liberal arts college in Ohio, fell to his death while on a spring hiking trip in Arizona....
"Baywatch" actress Pamela Anderson, who has filed for divorce from Rick Salomon, has been granted a restraining order against her estranged husband....
While actor Arjun Kapoor was bestowed with the Worst Actor (Male) award for "Gunday" at the 7th Annual Golden Kela Awards, actress Sonakshi Sinha won the Worst Actor (Female) award hands down, for "Action Jackson", "Lingaa" and "Holiday". ...
"Soldier X", a South Asian dramatist's play on the emotional scars inflicted on young American soldiers returning home from Iraq and Afghanistan will have its world premiere in New York on March 31....
US First Lady Michelle Obama was seen shaking a leg on "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" on the song "Uptown Funk" by Mark Robinson and Bruno Mars....
