German scientists implant chip, enabling blind man to see
Hamburg, Dec 20 : German doctors have implanted a special microchip in the retina of a blind Finnish man, enabling him to see, the news magazine Der Spiegel reported Saturday on its website.
The 1,500-pixel sensor chip can mimic the electrical signals sent by a healthy eye through the nervous system to the brain.
The patient, 45, [...]
Now, web surfers can explore Mars
WASHINGTON: Nasa and Microsoft launched an interactive website that allows web surfers to become Mars explorers.
The “Be a Martian” website invites members of the public to help scientists perform such research tasks as improving maps of the red planet, the US space agency and US software giant said.
“We’re at a point in history where everyone [...]
National Solar Mission | Cabinet Approves National Solar Mission | Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission
National Solar Mission | Cabinet Approves National Solar Mission | Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission
Cabinet on Thuresday, 19th November 2009 approved the Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission, with an aim to reduce dependence on fossil fuels as source of energy.
The mission aims to feed 20,000 MW to the national grid by 2022, with an initial [...]
End 2012 Said by Astronomer busts Mayan calendar’s dire prediction
Washington, Nov 14 (IANS) The world won’t be coming to an end on December 21, 2012, as said to be darkly predicted by the Mayan calendar, says an astronomer.
Ann Martin, doctoral candidate in Cornell University astronomy department, points out that the Mayan calendar was designed to be cyclical, so the fact that the long count [...]
How elephants ‘talk’ to each other through the ground
Washington, September 19 (ANI): The American Physical Society (APS), in the latest podcast of ‘Life Lines’, has explained how elephant vocalizations travel through the ground for great distances, and how other elephants can understand them, just as they understand acoustic sound, which travels through the air.
Research that led to the development of the content [...]
2000-year-old Roman amphitheatre discovered in Israel
Washington, September 19 (ANI): A team of archaeologists has discovered a 2000-year-old Roman amphitheatre near Tiberias in Israel.
According to a report in the Haaretz newspaper, Archeologist, Doctor Valid Atrash, from the Israel Antiquities Authority, said that the remnants of the Roman amphitheatre peaks [...]
Bones discovery in Scottish highlands may provide fresh insight of Bronze Age life
London, September 19 (ANI): Bones discovered at an ancient burial site in the Scottish Highlands could provide fresh insight of life in the Bronze Age.
According to a report by BBC News, parts of a skull, some bones and teeth were in a cist [...]
New evidence points towards water on Moon
London, September 19 (ANI): Two separate lunar missions have found evidence which indicates that the polar regions of the moon are chock full of water-altered minerals.
According to a report in Nature News, early results from NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), launched on June 18, are offering a wide array of watery signals.
The Moon, in fact, [...]
New evidence points towards water on Moon
London, September 19 (ANI): Two separate lunar missions have found evidence which indicates that the polar regions of the moon are chock full of water-altered minerals.
According to a report in Nature News, early results from NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), launched on June 18, are offering a wide array of watery signals.
The Moon, in fact, [...]
US army set for “hopping rotochut” that hops to avoid rubble trouble
London, September 19 (ANI): The U.S. army’s fleet of robots will soon be enhanced with the addition of forthcoming reconnaissance craft called the ‘hopping rotochute’, which will be capable of travelling deep into obstacle-ridden spaces like caves and rubble-laden buildings to video what it finds.
The self-righting probe is being developed for the Army Research Lab [...]
Novel system to monitor pedestrian crossings
Washington, Sep 19 (ANI): An intelligent surveillance system, developed by researchers from the University of Castilla-La Mancha (UCLM), can detect aberrant behaviour by drivers and people on foot crossing pedestrian crossings and in other urban settings.
The study, by David Vallejo, from the ORETO Applied Intelligent Systems research group of the UCLM, could be used to [...]
Scientists develop new language to improve home computer security
Washington, Sept 19 (ANI): Korean computer scientists have developed a novel security language for home networks that could ward off cyber attack in homes.
Like companies, banks, and other big organizations, domestic and small office networks are just as vulnerable to hacking, malicious computer code, worms, viruses, and eavesdropping.
An attack can wreak havoc on individuals and [...]
Flamingos stand on one leg to ‘preserve body heat’
Washington, Sept 19 (ANI): Ever wondered why flamingos are often seen standing on one leg? Well, scientists believe that the posture might be used by the birds to conserve body heat.
Lead researcher Matthew Anderson, a psychologist at Saint Joseph’s University in Philadelphia, said scientists have suggested that one-legged posture helped reduce muscle fatigue and that [...]
Human pee mixed with ash can turn out to be a natural fertilizer
Washington, September 19 (ANI): A new study has proven that human urine mixed with wood ash can be a natural fertilizer.
According to a report in National Geographic News, the study was carried out by Surendra Pradhan, an environmental scientist at University of Kuopio in Finland.
In many ways, the substances are natural complements, explained Pradhan. [...]
Regular exercise benefits older women as much as younger women
Washington, Sep 19 (ANI): Regular vigorous exercise benefits postmenopausal women just like younger women, according to two studies.
The results were based on the studies of endurance training in 50-something women.
“There is some good news here for older women in the population, in that they respond much like younger women do to training. The results are [...]
Your handwriting can show if you’re lying
London, Sept 19 (ANI): If you want to know if someone is telling you the truth, just go through his or her handwriting, say scientists in Haifa, Israel.
According to psychologists, handwriting changes when someone lies, and this is so because the brain has to work harder to invent facts, which then in turn interfere with [...]
Young age at first drink can turn under-15s into alcoholics
Washington, Sept 19 (ANI): Drinking at young age may affect genes linked to alcoholism and make youngsters vulnerable to severe problems, says a new study.
The study led by Dr Arpana Agrawal, from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, revealed that the younger an individual was at first drink, the greater the risk for [...]
European company develops mobile robots that are autonomous and multi-tasking
Madrid (Spain), September 19 (ANI): An European company has developed innovative robots which are mobile, multifunctional, collaborative, autonomous and polyvalent, suitable for a wide range of work from street cleaning and rubbish collection to accompanying elderly people.
According to a report carried out in www.basqueresearch.com, this new generation of robots have been developed by TECNALIA Technological [...]
Mars turned red due to grinding rocks, not water
London, September 19 (ANI): Recent laboratory studies have shown that Mars is not red due to the rocks being rusted by the water that once flooded the planet, but due to the ongoing grinding of surface rocks, which forms the red dust.
These findings, which open up the debate about the history of water on Mars [...]
Farmers grew rice in China’s Yangtze Basin 4,000 years ago
Washington, September 18 (ANI): New findings in the form of carbonized rice have indicated that farming in the Yangtze Basin in China existed as early as 4,000 years ago.
According to a report in Epoch Times, excavation in the Xiezi Area of [...]
