Brain area responsible for fear of losing money discovered
Tuesday, 09.02.2010, 07:09am
Neuroscientists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and their colleagues have identified the brain area responsible for fear of losing money-the amygdala
Scientists hail ''artificial pancreas'' as holy grail of diabetes cure
Friday, 05.02.2010, 07:48am
Researchers at Cambridge are a step closer to creating ‘artificial pancreas’ for children with type 1 diabetes
Scientists create circuit that can power itself from sunshine
Thursday, 04.02.2010, 09:50am
Scientists have created a circuit that can power itself from sunshine, a technology that can eventually lead to a whole new generation of touchscreen devices that power themselves
Chennai software engineer forecasts weather with self-made antennas
Saturday, 30.01.2010, 03:12am
Rajesh Kannan, a software engineer from Chennai, has a fascinating hobby of using his self-made antennas to predict weather conditions across the globe
Scientists identify possible new heritable marker for retinoblastoma
Thursday, 28.01.2010, 02:28am
A new research has found what may be a possible new heritable marker for retinoblastoma, a pediatric eye cancer triggered by the loss or mutation of both copies of the retinoblastoma gene
NASA’s Mars Explorer Spirit now a stationary science platform
Wednesday, 27.01.2010, 07:59am
Reports indicate that NASA has designated the once-moving Mars Exploration Rover Spirit a stationary science platform after efforts during the past several months to free it from a sand trap have been unsuccessful
NASA’s ‘WISE’ eyes spot near-Earth asteroid
Tuesday, 26.01.2010, 08:07am
NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, has spotted its first never-before-seen near-Earth asteroid, the first of hundreds it is expected to find during its mission to map the whole sky in infrared light
DRDO signs six MoUs with industry for technology transfer
Tuesday, 26.01.2010, 07:43am
The DRDO-FICCI Accelerated Technology Assessment and Commercialization (ATAC) Programme reached a new landmark on Monday with the signing of six Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between DRDO and leading industry players
Scientists discover way to create functional blood vessel cells from human stem cells
Thursday, 21.01.2010, 07:52am
Scientists at Weill Cornell Medical College have developed a new technique and described a novel mechanism for turning human embryonic and pluripotent stem cells into plentiful, functional endothelial cells, which are critical to the formation of blood vessels
Scientists come up with new theory on the origin of primates
Wednesday, 20.01.2010, 03:03pm
A team of scientists has come up with a new theory on the origin of primates, which says that each major primate group has evolved locally from a widespread ancestor on the supercontinent of Pangea about 185 million years ago
How a cell phone can help save energy (Re-Issue)
Tuesday, 19.01.2010, 11:13am
A team of scientists has developed an application for cell phones that would help save power by showing the energy consumption of individual devices in the household
Scientists, astrologers differ on annual solar eclipse’s impact on the country
Thursday, 14.01.2010, 11:40am
While scientists say this year''s first annular solar eclipse will be just another eclipse and there is nothing to be anxious about, some astrologers say it may spell difficulties and destructions in the year ahead
New technology making women’s handbags lighter
Thursday, 14.01.2010, 11:28am
A new study has revealed that the weight of women’s handbags has reduced in the last two years, courtesy new technology such as the iPhone and Blackberry
‘Modern’ living was invented by Homo Erectus, not Homo Sapiens
Thursday, 14.01.2010, 08:54am
Modern living may have originated roughly 500,000 years earlier than it is believed and was actually invented by Homo Erectus—our hairy, heavy-browed ancestor species— and not the “modern” humans, Homo Sapiens, according to a new study
Scientists resolve conflict in theory of how galaxies form
Thursday, 14.01.2010, 08:53am
Scientists have resolved the conflict in theory of how galaxies form by using millions of hours on supercomputers to run simulations of galaxy formation (1 million hours is more than 100 years)
Scientists make small-cell lung cancer breakthrough
Thursday, 14.01.2010, 08:50am
Scientists have discovered a way to predict which patients with small-cell lung cancer may be resistant to first-line chemotherapy
Moon may get nuclear energy soon
Sunday, 10.01.2010, 06:09am
Reports indicate that NASA engineers are working on an ultra-compact nuclear power plant for the Moon that should generate enough electricity to run a house, or a lunar exploration base
Our solar system may have millions of “twins”
Saturday, 09.01.2010, 07:11am
A new research has suggested that our solar system may have millions of “twins”
Car alarm named ''most irritating piece of technology ever invented''
Saturday, 09.01.2010, 07:10am
Car alarms have pipped egg timer and alarm clocks to be voted the most irritating piece of technology ever invented, says a poll
How Earth survived its birth
Friday, 08.01.2010, 06:51am
New simulations created by researchers have shown how Earth survived its birth
Galaxies can also have split personalities
Thursday, 07.01.2010, 08:53am
A team of astronomers used data from the COSMOS (Cosmic Evolution Survey) project to reveal previously unseen features in the mass distribution of galaxies, thus indicating that galaxies can have split personalities
NASA’s ‘WISE’ eye spies first glimpse of the starry sky
Thursday, 07.01.2010, 07:39am
NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, has captured its first look at the starry sky that it will soon begin surveying in infrared light
Milky Way is a gigantic, flattened cosmic beachball
Thursday, 07.01.2010, 07:09am
In a new research that involved the mapping of the shape of the galactic dark matter, astronomers have determined that the halo of dark matter surrounding our Milky Way Galaxy is shaped something like a gigantic, flattened cosmic beachball
NASA scientist’s experiment to find out if Mars ever had life in the past
Wednesday, 06.01.2010, 09:29am
An experiment proposed by a NASA scientist has been added to the Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) instrument on a mobile NASA laboratory that will land on Mars in 2012, which would help find if there was life on the Red Planet in the ancient times
Scientists use insect cells technology for producing swine flue vaccine
Tuesday, 05.01.2010, 01:03pm
Austrian researchers have broken new ground by developing a technique to produce swine flu vaccines through insect cells
