First Private Craft Docks With Space Station - New York Times
25 May 2012, 11:35 pm
SpaceX did run into some difficulties with Dragon’s navigation sensors, one that took thermal images and one that bounced laser pulses, and that delayed the capture by a couple of hours. “This is, I think, going to be recognized as a ...

Price hike of essential commodities anticipated by traders and analysts - Economic Times
25 May 2012, 2:45 pm
Traders say prices of edible oils, pulses and spices - essentials in Indian recipes - could rise by 3-5 per cent as early as next month, as a pummeled rupee drives up the cost of imports. FMCG companies, too, are mulling a price revision.

Food Price Shock Is Next - Wall Street Journal
24 May 2012, 4:24 am
By next month, they may also be facing higher prices for two other everyday items – imported cooking oil and pulses – because of the weakness of the rupee. India, the world’s largest importer of edible oil, has so far not felt the pinch as ...

BMW 3-series: not likely to set pulses racing - Daily Telegraph
23 May 2012, 7:53 am
When you touch the key fob as you approach the new BMW 3-series after dusk, soft lights glow behind the door handles. It seems unlikely that somebody might fail to find the handle, even in the dark, but BMW is leaving nothing to chance. Or perhaps this ...

Graphite enters different states of matter in ultrafast experiment - Space Daily
21 May 2012, 10:14 pm
Demonstration of ultrafast disintegration of matter by 2 keV LCLS pulses: The team combined techniques commonly used in solid state physics (Bragg reflection) with techniques from plasma physics (spectroscopy of diffusely-scattered light) to characterize ...

Murdoch's public veto required to quash Sun and Times sale talk - The Guardian
21 May 2012, 6:54 pm
Tony Gallagher, the Telegraph editor, rekindled the flagging pulses of weary media journalists covering the Leveson inquiry with a couple of early evening tweets on Friday. The Times and the Sun could be up for sale – under plans attributed to ...

Snow: John Edwards glittered when he walked - The News & Observer
19 May 2012, 10:59 pm
But still he fluttered pulses when he said, “Good-morning,” and he glittered when he walked. I never knew John Edwards personally, other than perhaps to nod to him a few times at church. But as he entered politics I, like millions of others ...

New Light-Powered Eye Implants Use Infrared pulses to Restore Sight - Popular Science
14 May 2012, 11:17 am
A new generation of retinal implants could use light to provide power and data, potentially restoring vision in a less-invasive form than existing implants. Researchers at Stanford University previously described how such a system would work, and now they ...

Underwater Volcano Erupts in pulses - msnbc.com
13 May 2012, 12:15 pm
When the crew aboard the research vessel Sonne set out on a cruise last spring, they were expecting a routine mapping expedition in the South Pacific. But they were in for a big surprise. They ended up witnessing one of the fastest episodes of ...

Medical tourism sets pulses racing - medicalxpress.com
8 May 2012, 3:31 am
From liposuction in Athens to an eye operation in Dubai, the lucrative market in medical tourism is on the up, tempting ever more countries to look for ways to profit from foreign patient care. "Everyone wants their share of the pie," Sanjiv ...