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Washington, September 14 (ANI): Researchers from the Eindhoven University of Technology and the University of Ulm in Germany have made the first high-resolution 3D images of the inside of a polymer solar cell.

This gives them important new insights in the nanoscale structure of polymer solar cells and its effect on the performance.

The investigations shed [...]

Washington, Sep 3 (ANI): “Seeing is believing” goes the old adage, but scientists have now said that “believing is seeing” also holds true when it comes to perceiving other people’s emotions.

Psychologists from the US, New Zealand and France have found that the way we initially think about the emotions of others biases our subsequent perception [...]

Washington, August 29 (ANI): Elderly people with limited mobility may soon come to be served by robots in a manner as if they are being served by other persons, thanks to a collaborative study by three University of Illinois at Chicago engineers and a Rush University nursing specialist.

“We want to help elderly people communicate with [...]

Washington, July 5 (ANI): Soldiers would soon be able to avoid infection on any injury they sustain during wars, thanks to a new anti-infection technology developed by West Virginia University researchers.

Dr. Bingyun Li, of the university’s Department of Orthopaedics, has revealed that the new technology is basically a drug-delivery system that involves microcapsules and [...]

Fremont, July 1 (ANI/Business Wire India): Virage Logic Corporation, the semiconductor industry’s trusted IP partner, announced it has expanded its presence in India with the appointment of CoreEL as its sales representative.

CoreEL joins a growing global network of sales representatives that complement and expand the reach of Virage Logic’s direct sales channel.

CoreEL’s more [...]

Washington, June 21 (ANI): A new research has called for measures to enable safe design of nanomaterials because of the increased likelihood of people coming into direct contact with these materials in recent times.

The recent explosion in the development of nanomaterials with enhanced performance characteristics for use in commercial and medical applications has increased [...]

Washington, May 22 (ANI): A new research has led to the discovery of miniscule magnets in ant antennae, which act as an internal GPS (Global positioning system), making these insects aware as to where they are going.

According to a report in Discovery News, while human global positioning systems rely upon receivers that pick up information [...]

Washington, May 8 (ANI): NASA has released an interactive, 3-D photographic collection of internal and external views of the International Space Station (ISS) and a model of the next Mars rover.

NASA and Microsoft’s Virtual Earth team developed the online experience with hundreds of photographs and Microsoft’s photo imaging technology called Photosynth.

Using a click-and-drag interface, [...]

Washington, May 5 (ANI): A team of scientists at the University of Georgia (UGA), US, has developed a microscope that is capable of live imaging at double the resolution of fluorescence microscopy using structured illumination.

The fluorescence microscope has allowed a generation of scientists to study the properties of proteins inside cells.

Yet, as human [...]

Shillong, May 3 (ANI): The Indian Institute of Management (IIM) in Shillong recently hosted the first ever golf tournament by a business school of the country.

Shillong has a sprawling golf course and hosting the golf tournament here added a feather to the cap of IIM-Shillong’s reputation. There were 120 golfers who participated in [...]

Shillong, May 3 (ANI): The Indian Institute of Management (IIM) in Shillong recently hosted the first ever golf tournament by a business school of the country.

Shillong has a sprawling golf course and hosting the golf tournament here added a feather to [...]

London, April 28 (ANI): Cookie, Digital TV, Ethernet and PC Suite are some of the terms that baffle Britain’s public, a new survey has revealed.

According to the Gadget Helpline, dongle, widely used to refer to a broadband wireless adaptor, was voted the most confusing word.

The move, backed by the Plain English Campaign, had surveyed more [...]

SEOUL, South Korea–(Business Wire)–
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., a world leader in digital consumer electronics
and information technology, today introduced their new 500-Gigabyte (GB)
2.5-inch hard disk drive with a shock operation tolerance of 400G/2ms. The
Spinpoint M7 500GB 2.5-inch hard drive with 250GB per platter features a rugged
base and cover design, offering better data protection for road warriors [...]

The Micro-Star International (MSI) has unveiled its latest feature-rich GX403 gaming notebook. According to MSI, the GX403 notebook is loaded with a slew of features for smooth and fast computing.
The GX403 notebook is ultra portable, with 2.2kg weight including battery. The notebook is sized 303 (l) x 231-255 (w) x 24-30 (h) mm. Offering ultra [...]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – More than three months into a medical leave from Apple, Chief Executive Steve Jobs remains closely involved in key aspects of running the company, the Wall Street Journal reported Saturday, citing people familiar with the matter.
Chief Operating Officer Tim Cook runs the day-to-day operations, but Jobs has continued to work on the [...]

Washington, Mar 20 (ANI): A novel device implanted inside the spinal cord might offer an effective treatment against Parkinson’s disease, according to a study.

Researchers at Duke University Medical Centre have developed a prosthetic device, which applies [...]

New Delhi, Mar 9 (ANI/Business Wire India); After receiving an overwhelming response by selling ‘Jeevan Astha’ online at www.policybazaar.com, Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC) extends its partnership to yet another policy ‘Jeevan Varsha’. It can be bought online only at [...]

Washington, March 9 (ANI): An international team of scientists has discovered a novel one dimensional ice chain structure built from pentagons that may prove to be a step toward the development of new materials which can be used to seed clouds and cause rain.

“For the first time, we have shown that ice can build [...]

Washington, March 5 (ANI): The future of flight seems safe, with engineers at MIT using carbon nanotubes only billionths of a meter thick to stitch together aerospace materials in work that could make airplane skins and other products some 10 times stronger at a nominal increase in cost.

Moreover, advanced composites reinforced with nanotubes are [...]

London, Mar 3 (ANI): Forget about using keyboard or mouse to operate your computer, for scientists have now developed a PC with a robotic neck that can be controlled only by gestures.

The music and game-playing gadget, called QB1 computer, was showcased at the Lift conference in Geneva last week.rederic Kaplan at the Swiss Federal [...]