SI units are defined by the General Conference on Weights and Measures. The next meeting of the conference will consider a range of issues related to the maintenance of the SI, including an initial proposal to prepare for the redefinition of several of the base units.
A new study in the journal Atmospheric Environment by researchers at USC and the California Air Resources Board found that the average Los Angeles driver spends about six percent (1.5 hours) of his or her day on the road, yet that period of time accounts for 33 to 45 percent of total exposure to diesel and ultrafine particles (UFP).
In Bangalore, India, a man was arrested and jailed for 50 days, because of incorrect information given by the ISP gave to the police. Lakshmana Kailash K. was arrested on Aug. 31st on suspicion of having posted insulting images of Chhatrapati Shivaji, the founder of the Maratha empire in western India in 1674, on the Google-owned social networking site Orkut.
Speculation has been running high for months that Google was going to produce either a mobile phone or a mobile phone OS. According to sources, Google is set to unveil its so-called gPhone platform, now code-named "Android," at a press conference on Monday. "Android" will be based on open-source Linux software.
Emotional Intelligence is the capacity to perceive, comprehend and regulate one's own emotions and those of others. Students who had started smoking either tobacco or cannabis at a younger age and who regularly smoked these substances obtained lower scores in questions related to emotional regulation.
A vaccine meant to protect against tuberculosis is jeopardising the lives of HIV-infected infants, warn experts in a major new report. They call for improvements to vaccination programmes to avoid increasingthe health risks for children whose immune systems are weakened by HIV.
