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After the tsunami hit Japan earlier this year, one thing that caught everyone’s attention was the tsunami hit nuclear plant in the country. But one more thing that should’ve been a hot topic of discussion but was not was the seafood industry. What once were the seafaring towns, fishing towns is now nothing else but towns of tranquillity. One such town is Kesennuma. The town’s life sustaining businesses of fish quays, processing and packaging plants are now abandoned and eerie harbours.
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Super-Black Material developed by NASA

NASA engineers have come up with a material that absorbs more than 99 per cent of all light that strikes it. The team of engineers at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Centre in Greenbelt, Maryland, reported the findings recently at the SPIE Optics and Photonics conference. The material, comprised of something like a shag carpet of carbon nanotubes, boasts a ridiculously high light absorption rate of 99.5% in the visible and ultraviolet ranges. It’s not as good with far-infrared bands, dropping to a still respectable 98% or so. Plenty of other people have been working on similar materials, but NASA blows competitors out of the water. Absorbent material usually pulls in ultraviolet and visible light – but this new material also captures infrared and far infrared light. The development has even taken fellow NASA scientists by surprise, and it promises to open new frontiers in space technology.
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Italy Pressurized to Push through the implementation of Reforms

Will this evening Italy come under the renewed pressure to give clarifications about its intentions of implementing economic reforms to reduce its debts. The European commissioner for economic and monetary affairs, a spokesman for Olli Rehn, in a meeting of the eurozone finance ministers said,  this evening would be addressed by Giulio Tremonti , Italy’s finance minister, on “how and when” the Italian government plans to implement a list of commitments. The European Commission has sent the Italian government a questionnaire with the questions pertaining to the details of its plan for bringing about fiscal and structural reforms to ease the concerns of the financial market over the levels of debt.
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Greek PM Survives through Confidence Vote

Prime Minister George Papandreou, who narrowly won last night’s vote of confidence in the Greek Parliament, said he will begin talks soon on forming a new coalition government. Greece’s embattled Prime Minister, on Saturday began efforts at forming a coalition government to secure broad approval for Greece’s latest international bailout deal and avert financial catastrophe for the indebted country. It is a matter of surprise for many persons.
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NASA study suggest life below the surface on Mars

For years now NASA has collected data regarding the existence of abundant liquid water on the surface of the red planet from more than 350 sites. But this water has existed only for short duration of time during the end of the period lasting for hundreds of millions of years when the warm water had interacted with the subsurface rocks.
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Power is Still Out For 1.6 Million in Northeast

After the rare and deadly October snowstorm, the residents of more than 1.6 million homes in the Northeast remained without power for days and some were told it could take 10 more days to restore electricity. The situation is really pathetic there. At the peak of the storm, more than 800,000 homes in Connecticut were in the dark, prompting Governor Dannel Malloy to call it the worst power outage in history. The power outage also badly affected the traffic lights, causing a rash of fender benders, and knocked out home water wells, leaving toilets out of commission. Hotels in central Connecticut were sold out as residents escaped homes without heat and electricity.
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