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British Dyson vaccum cleaners World Class!

Necessity is the mother of invention, frustrated by the bag in the Vaccum cleaner clogging up dust and thereby reducing suction, Sir James Dyson, reinvented the vacuum cleaner by getting rid of the bag. Dyson vacuum cleaners came top in a study of consumers by Germany’s Institute for quality. Germans rated Dyson above there own…

Rare rock with 30,000 octahedral diamonds

A rare rock of the size of a golf ball ensconced with 30,000 tiny octahedral diamonds sized between 10 to 700 microns with speckles of green and red garnet was discovered in Udachnaya diamond mine, in Northern Siberia. A professor from the University of Tennessee in the US is studying this rare rock by beaming electrons to trace the…

NASA’s scientists with Kepler Space Telescope has discovered three new Earth-size habitable planets Sun-like stars. Of the three, two are likely made of rock like our Earth. This discovery was announced at the American Astronomical Society meeting in Seattle yesterday. Of more than 1,000 verified planets found by Kepler, eight are less than twice Earth-size…

India’s Mars Orbiter completes 100 days in Martian orbit

Chennai: India’s Mars Orbiter completed 100 days of its Martian orbit on the New Year’s Day 2015 according Indian space agency officials. The Mars Orbiter was inserted in Martian orbit Sep 24, 2014 is in good health, said officials of Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO). The Mars Orbiter has sent different pictures of the red…