Leap second decision postponed till 2015
January 20th, 2012 - 6:52 pm ICT by IANS
London, Jan 20 (IANS) A decision on whether to abolish the leap second, the occasional extra second added to the world's time, has been deferred to 2015, BBC reported.Experts at ... Read more...
Posted in Uncategorized |
Electrons most round natural objects in universe
May 26th, 2011 - 6:58 pm ICT by IANS
London, May 26 (IANS) Electrons may be the most round natural objects in the universe, a study has found.According to the Daily Telegraph, experts at the Imperial College London have ... Read more...
Posted in World |
Now, 3D body scanner to tell you if you’re overweight
October 14th, 2010 - 1:02 pm ICT by ANI
London, Oct 14 (ANI): Tape measures and scales may soon become a thing of the past, as they would be replaced with a 3D body scanner.The body volume index (BVI) takes a ... Read more...
Posted in Health Science |
Like humans, mice express pain through expressions
May 10th, 2010 - 4:21 pm ICT by IANS
Toronto, May 10 (IANS) Like humans, mice also show pain through facial expressions, says a new study.
Jeffrey Mogil and Kenneth Craig, psychology professors at McGill University and British Columbia University, respectively, ... Read more...
Posted in Sci-Tech |
Mice show pain via facial expressions, just like humans
May 10th, 2010 - 12:29 pm ICT by ANI
London, May 10 (ANI): Just like humans, mice too express pain through facial expressions, revealed a new study by researchers from McGill University and the University of British Columbia.McGill Psychology Prof. Jeffrey ... Read more...
Posted in Health Science |
Universe estimated to be 20 million years older than thought
February 10th, 2010 - 12:42 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Feb 10 (ANI): The most accurate measurement yet made of the universe's age has determined that our universe is about 20 million years older than thought.According to a report in ... Read more...
Posted in Business |
Beware of kitchen spoons when administering syrups
January 5th, 2010 - 6:08 pm ICT by IANS
Washington, Jan 5 (IANS) Beware of innocuous kitchen spoons - they can be unwittingly dangerous, especially when administering liquid medicine.
Former cold and flu sufferers were asked to pour one teaspoon of nighttime ... Read more...
Posted in Sci-Tech |
Using kitchen spoon may lead to dosage errors
January 5th, 2010 - 1:15 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Jan 5 (ANI): Consuming liquid medicine using a kitchen spoon might prove to be either ineffective or dangerous, say researchers.Lead researcher Dr. Brian Wansink, director of the Cornell Food and Brand ... Read more...
Posted in Health Science |
Femtosecond comb lasers help formation flying in space
October 4th, 2009 - 2:20 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, October 4 (ANI): Researchers at the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) have helped to establish that femtosecond comb lasers can provide accurate measurement of absolute distance in formation flying space missions.NPL, along ... Read more...
Posted in Health Science |
ESA’s satellite sends data for development of best gravity map ever
October 1st, 2009 - 5:44 pm ICT by ANI
Paris, October 1 (ANI): Reports indicate that the European Space Agency's (ESA's) GOCE (Gravity field and steady-state Ocean Circulation Explorer) has started sending data that will lead to the development of the ... Read more...
Posted in Health Science |
Ancient dial may have been used by early Scots to measure time
August 24th, 2009 - 3:23 pm ICT by ANI
London, August 24 (ANI): Conservationists working at Inchcolm Island, in the Firth of Forth in Scotland, have found the remnants of a special sundial that they believe may have been carved into ... Read more...
Posted in Health Science |
World’s first new DeBakey heart assist device implanted successfully
August 18th, 2009 - 12:43 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Aug 18 (ANI): In a revolutionary surgery, cardiac surgeons at Heidelberg University Hospital for the first time implanted the HeartAssist 5 ventricular assist device, the modern version of the DeBakey VAD ... Read more...
Posted in Health Science |
Elderly people’s appetite linked to mortality
May 13th, 2009 - 4:32 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, May 13 (ANI): A new study has found a link between elderly people's appetite and mortality rates.The study by a Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) researcher hasdemonstrated a link ... Read more...
Posted in Health Science |
Theres little water inside Moon, suggests hi-res map
February 13th, 2009 - 2:07 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Feb 13 (ANI): The most detailed map of the Moon ever created has suggested that there is little water inside the lunar surface.Developed by an international research team, the high-resolution ... Read more...
Posted in Health Science |
Measuring how strain affects semiconductors may pave way for faster electronics
November 4th, 2008 - 12:00 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, November 4 (ANI): Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have come up with a way to measure how strain affects thin films of silicon, which they say may pave the ... Read more...
Posted in National |
Spending time outdoors insures against myopia
August 13th, 2008 - 11:43 am ICT by IANS
Sydney, Aug 13 (IANS) Children who spend more time outdoors are less likely to develop short-sightedness or myopia, according to a new study. This finding may provide the basis of a public ... Read more...
Posted in World |
Researchers identify techniques to detect Alzheimer’’s earlier
July 28th, 2008 - 3:55 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, July 28 (ANI): A team of researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine has identified two new techniques to detect the progression of Alzheimer''s disease earlier.
According the ... Read more...
Posted in Health Science |
Worlds most accurate measurement of fundamental unit of light intensity achieved
July 17th, 2008 - 2:48 pm ICT by ANI
Canberra, July 17 (ANI): Australian scientists have said that they have achieved the worlds most accurate measurement of the fundamental unit of light intensity.According to a report by ABC News, Errol ... Read more...
Posted in World |
Robots tread on thin ice when scientists fear
May 28th, 2008 - 5:16 pm ICT by admin
Washington, May 28 (IANS) This is one machine that goes where humans fear to tread - on thin ice. SnoMote - designed at Georgia Institute of Technology (GIT) and Pennsylvania State University ... Read more...
Posted in Sci-Tech |
Astronomers make first accurate measurement of cosmic temperature
May 13th, 2008 - 12:56 pm ICT by admin
Washington, May 13 (ANI): Astronomers have detected for the first time in the ultraviolet the carbon monoxide molecule in a galaxy located almost 11 billion light-years away, which has allowed them ... Read more...
Posted in Business |
Here comes the world’s most accurate quantum clock
March 10th, 2008 - 2:04 pm ICT by admin
New York, March 10 (IANS) An atomic clock, based on a single aluminium atom and applying computer logic to the peculiarities of the quantum world, now rivals the world's most accurate clock, ... Read more...
Posted in World |
‘Quantum logic clock’ now rivals the world’s most accurate clock
March 7th, 2008 - 2:32 pm ICT by admin
Washington, March 7 (ANI): An atomic clock that uses an aluminum atom to apply the logic of computers to the peculiarities of the quantum world now rivals the world's most accurate clock, ... Read more...
Posted in Health Science |
