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India and Afghanistan Thursday signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to set up a telemedicine facility in the war-ravaged country, an Afghan health ministry statement said.’The main purpose of this project is to provide complex technical know-how and expertise to the health care providers of Afghanistan from a distance by the Indian health professionals,’ the statement said.

Indian Ambassador to Afghanistan Jayant Prasad and Afghan Minister for Public Health Syed Mohammad Amin Fatimi signed the MoU on behalf of thier countries.

India’s state-owned telecommunication consultancy and engineering company, Telecommunications Consultants India Limited (TCIL), would be the sole executing agency for the implementation of the project, it said.

‘We believe that the establishment of telemedicine facility by Indian government and transfer of knowledge, consultation and expertise from India to Afghanistan will not only enhance the capacity for health care service delivery but also bring a new technology and facility to Afghanistan,’ the statement quoted Fatimi as saying.

India has contributed more than $750 million to Afghanistan since 2002 and major parts of the contribution has been invested in the fields of health, education and road building.

A prominent Dhaka daily Friday hailed India’s maiden moon mission Chandrayaan-1 and hoped that its spin-off would help the entire South Asian region.There was ‘justifiable pride’ in the technological feat of scientists of a developing country, The Daily Star said in an editorial.

‘The launch of the lunar mission is, briefly, one very powerful sign of the advances in technology that India has been making in recent years. It is at the same time a broad hint that where the exploration of space is concerned, the Indians have finally come of age.

‘We take this opportunity to congratulate the people and government of India on the launch of the Chandrayaan 1 mission to the moon. One hardly needs any telling that, for a developing country like India and indeed for the region, the venture is cause for justifiable pride.’

‘That sense of pride as well as belonging is enhanced by the fact that India is an important component of SAARC (South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation). As a fellow member of the South Asian regional organisation, we feel that the stride Delhi has taken in space will have a positive impact on scientific development for Indians in particular and for their neighbours and for developing countries in general.

Drawing a larger Asian picture, the newspaper said: ‘The achievement is but the latest step where progress in space related matters by Asian nations is concerned. China and Japan have already become part of what is now an expanding global space programme.

‘Against such a backdrop, although India has achieved a remarkable feat, as a developing country it has yet to go quite some way before it can climb on to the perch that other nations have attained as members of the space club.’

The newspaper added that there was little doubt that with its recent economic and technological strides, India would focus on providing its poor with better amenities.

‘It is our expectation as well as that of people in the bigger South Asian region that India’s foray into space will yield social benefits common to all through a sharing of knowledge about space and a utilisation of such knowledge here on earth. Chandrayaan 1 will map the surface of the moon. What new facts about the lunar body such an exercise might throw up can only be imagined,’ it said.

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Australian scientists have created what is arguably the world’s most efficient silicon solar cells.

The University of New South Wales (UNSW) Photovoltaic Centre of Excellence already held the world record of 24.7 percent for silicon solar cell efficiency.

Now a revision of the international standard by which solar cells are measured, has delivered the significant 25 percent record to the team led by Martin Green and Stuart Wenham.

Centre’s executive research director Martin Green said the new world mark in converting sunlight into electricity was one of six new world records claimed by UNSW for its silicon solar technologies.

He said the jump in performance leading to the milestone resulted from new knowledge about the composition of sunlight, according to an UNSW release.

“Since the weights of the colours in sunlight change during the day, solar cells are measured under a standard colour spectrum defined under typical operational meteorological conditions.”

“Improvements in understanding atmospheric effects upon the colour content of sunlight led to a revision of the standard spectrum in April. The new spectrum has a higher energy content both down the blue end of the spectrum and at the opposite red end with, dare I say it, relatively less green,” said Green.

UNSW’s world-leading silicon cell is now six percent more efficient than the next-best technology, Green said. The new record also inches the UNSW team closer to the 29 percent theoretical maximum efficiency possible for first-generation silicon photovoltaic cells.

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In a new study, scientists have established that hypnosis can trigger “synesthetic” experiences - where one sense triggers the involuntary use of another - within an average brain.The findings ruled out the popular perception that people with synesthesia have extra connections in their brain.

Instead, it suggested that their brains might simply do more ‘cross talking’, which could be induced by changing inhibitory processes in the average brain.

Titled, “Induced cross-modal synesthetic experience without abnormal neuronal connections,” the research was conducted by an international group that includes Cohen Kadosh, previously a doctoral student at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.

Synesthesia (known as synesthetes) patients experience abnormal interactions between the senses.

For example digit-color synesthesia, for instance, will experience certain numbers in specific colors (for example, they might experience the number seven as red).

Scientists have attributed the phenomenon to the existence of extra connections between brain areas in synesthesia, but the new study suggests otherwise.

For examining the alternative theory of more cross talk (disinhibition) between brain areas in synesthetes, Cohen Kadosh and colleagues used posthypnotic suggestion to show that people who are not synesthetes can be induced to have synesthetic experiences.

The researchers saw that after inducing digit-color synesthesia, the volunteers had similar experiences to those undergone by real synesthetes in their everyday life.

Also, hypnotized participants failed a catch test which was also failed by real synesthetes: when subjects were hypnotized to experience seven as red (for example) they could not detect the number when a black seven was presented on a red background.

“Our study shows that hypnosis can induce synesthetic experiences in people, suggesting that extra brain connections are not needed to experience cross-sensory interactions and that it is a change in inhibitory processes - more cross talk within the brain - that causes these experiences. This takes us one step closer to understanding the causes of synesthesia and abnormal cross-brain interactions,” said Cohen Kadosh.

The study is published in the journal Psychological Science, the premiere publication of the Association for Psychological Society.

As the White House hailed India’s maiden moon mission as ‘encouraging’ and ‘exciting’, Democratic presidential hopeful, Barack Obama saw it as a reminder to revitalise the US space programme and not let other countries surpass it.’I haven’t spoken to the President (George Bush) about it. I saw that story, it was very interesting,’ White House spokesperson Dana Perino said Wednesday. ‘We noted it’s very encouraging for India, I’m sure, very exciting.’

However, Obama viewed Wednesday’s historic launch of India’s moon mission Chandrayaan I from Sriharikota, Andhra Pradesh as a challenge.

‘With India’s launch of its first unmanned lunar spacecraft following closely on the heels of China’s first spacewalk, we are reminded just how urgently the United States must revitalise its space programme if we are to remain the undisputed leader in space, science, and technology,’ he said.

Obama said his comprehensive plan to revitalise the US ’space programme and close the gap between the Space Shuttle’s retirement and its next-generation replacement includes $2 billion more for NASA - but more money alone is not enough.’

‘We must not only retain our space workforce so that we don’t let other countries surpass our technical capabilities; we must train new scientists and engineers for the next generation,’ he said.

Obama said his ‘comprehensive space policy focuses on reaching new frontiers through human space exploration, tapping the ingenuity of our commercial space entrepreneurs, fostering a broad research agenda to break new ground on the world’s leading scientific discoveries, and engaging students through educational programmes that excite them about space and science.’

‘As a child, I remember sitting on my grandfather’s shoulders and watching the Apollo astronauts return from a splashdown to Hickam Air Force Base, dreaming of where they had been,’ he added.

‘It inspired my imagination and gave me confidence in what we as Americans could achieve. It’s time for a space programme that inspires our children again,’ said the Democratic nominee who is leading over his Republican rival John McCain in most opinion polls.

‘As president, I will lead our space programme boldly into the 21st century - so when my daughters, and all our children, look up to the skies, they see Americans leading the way into the deepest reaches of our solar system,’ Obama said.

The United States India Business Council (USIBC), representing 280 of the largest US companies investing in India, has also hailed India’s maiden moon mission with two US instruments on board as the beginning of long ‘relationship promoting the opening of the frontier of outer space.’

‘This unique technology partnership in civil space exploration, which taps India’s highly skilled scientific expertise with American instrumentation furnished by Raytheon, beckons what we hope will be a long and mutually beneficial relationship promoting the opening of the frontier of outer space,’ USIBC president Ron Somers said.

Big Fish Games on Thursday announced the release of Azada: Ancient Magic, a new casual game for the Mac. It costs $19.99; a trial version is available for free download.Azada casts you into storybook worlds as you try to solve puzzles.

Azada: Ancient Magic is a sequel to Azada, a puzzle adventure game. The sequel continues the story and the genre. Titus has given you a magic medallion to solve puzzles in a magic library; you enter the lives of storybook characters in more than 20 magic puzzle books. You’ll interact with legendary characters like King Arthur, Rapunzel, Henry Jekyll, Buffalo Bill and more. System requirements call for Mac OS X 10.4 or later, 1.83GHz or faster CPU and 512MB RAM.

Social networks MySpace and Facebook have already courted iPhone users with programs that let people stay connected on the Apple Inc. smart phone. Now MySpace is first to unveil one for owners of the just-released G1 phone powered by Google Inc.’s Android operating system.News Corp.-owned MySpace announced a mobile application for the G1 this week that can be downloaded wirelessly to the device through the Google-run Android Market. The Market is stocked with add-on programs and games built by third-party developers.

The G1 is made by Taiwan’s HTC Corp. and released Wednesday by T-Mobile in the U.S. The phone costs $179 with a two-year contract.

MySpace’s Android application is its second for a device sold by T-Mobile — there is also one for the Sidekick — and it lets G1 users do many of the same things they can do from a desktop computer, like look at profiles and photos on MySpace. In addition, the application lets G1 users quickly upload photos from the phone to their MySpace profiles.

There’s no mobile Facebook program for the Android Market, and a Facebook spokeswoman said the company had nothing to say on the subject. However, if history is any indicator, something could be forthcoming: Facebook has developed applications for the iPhone and Research In Motion Ltd.’s BlackBerry.