India says two soldiers killed in clash with Pakistan troops

SRINAGAR, India: Pakistani troops killed two Indian soldiers on Tuesday near the tense disputed border between the nuclear-armed neighbours in Kashmir and one of the bodies was badly mutilated, the Indian army said.The firefight broke out at about noon on Tuesday (0630 GMT) after an Indian patrol discovered Pakistani troops about half a kilometre (1,600 feet) inside Indian territory, an...

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G-Tech soups up external storage with 7,200rpm hard drives

The G-Tech G-RAID Mini external hard drive.(Credit:G-Tech)LAS VEGAS--Call it a minor upgrade, but that's what G-Technology has to offer this year at CES.The storage vendor, which is now part of Western Digital, announced at CES 2013 that it now ships all of its popular G-Technology G-Drive Mini and G-RAID Mini external storage products with high-speed 1TB, 2.5-inch 7,200rpm hard drives. Thanks to...

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Primitive and Peculiar Mammal May Be Hiding Out in Australia

It’d be hard to think of a mammal that’s weirder than the long-beaked, egg-laying echidna. Or harder to find.Scientists long thought the animal, which has a spine-covered body, a four-headed penis, and a single hole for reproducing, laying eggs, and excreting waste, lived only in New Guinea. The population of about 10,000 is critically endangered. Now there is tantalizing evidence that...

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Jodi Arias: Who Is the Admitted Killer?

Jodi Arias is a woman that many can't keep their eyes off of--a soft-spoken, small-framed 32-year-old who last year won a jailhouse Christmas caroling contest. But she is also an admitted killer who is now on trial in Arizona for the 2008 murder of her ex-boyfriend Travis Alexander.Sitting in a Maricopa County court, Arias, whose trial resumes today, cries every time prosecutors...

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Today on New Scientist: 7 January 2013

Light hits near infinite speed in silver-coated glass A new metamaterial is the first with a refractive index near zero, allowing light waves to propagate ultrafast over nano-distancesFact and fiction blur as Captain Kirk tweets astronaut Truth got stranger than fiction in low Earth orbit when the crew of the starship Enterprise exchanged messages with the crew of the International Space StationSea...

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Airbus unveils deal for Indian air refuelling tankers

PARIS: European aircraft manufacturer Airbus said Monday that it has won a tender to supply India with six A330 air refuelling tankers, a deal potentially worth more than US$1.0 billion."Airbus Military is pleased to confirm that it has been selected by the Government of India as the preferred bidder to supply its A330 MRTT Multi Role Tanker Transport to the Indian Air Force," an Airbus...

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Lexar announces its first XQD memory cards

Lexar's Professional XQD USB 3.0 Reader for reading XQD flash memory cards(Credit:Lexar)Nikon photography pros will be happy to know there's a major new supplier of XQD flash-memory cards: Lexar.Lexar's 64GB XQD flash memory card(Credit:Lexar)They might not be so happy about the price for the new high-end format: a 1100X 64GB model costs $580, and a 32GB costs $300. At the CES show today, the Micron...

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How Fish Evolved to Climb Waterfalls With Their Mouths

When it comes to climbing waterfalls, the Nopili rock-climbing goby really puts its teeth into it. The inch-long (2.5 centimeter) fish uses suckers in its mouth and belly to move up steep cliffs in its rugged Hawaiian habitat. (Related "pictures: "'Walking' Fish a Model of Evolution in Action.")Watch a video of the fish climbing.Because its freshwater habitat is easily disturbed—by a big...

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New Evidence Expected in Colo. Shooter Hearing

A preliminary hearing for accused Aurora movie theater shooter James Holmes begins today in Colorado, with victims and families expected to be present. One family member likened attending the hearing to having to "face the devil."This is the most important court hearing in the case so far, essentially a mini-trial as prosecutors present witness testimony and evidence—some never...

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Silent Skype calls can hide secret messages

Got a secret message to send? Say it with silence. A new technique can embed secret data during a phone call on Skype. "There are concerns that Skype calls can be intercepted and analysed," says Wojciech Mazurczyk at the Institute of Telecommunications in Warsaw, Poland. So his team's SkypeHide system lets users...

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