Antarctica to face more threats, warn researchers
July 15th, 2012 - 5:04 pm ICT by IANS
Washington, July 15 (IANS) Urgent steps are required to protect the planet's last great wilderness Antarctica, which is likely to face more critical threats than ever before, an international team ... Read more...
Posted in Environment |
Understanding networks to find how diseases spread
June 3rd, 2012 - 3:35 pm ICT by IANS
Washington, June 3 (IANS) Vastly dissimilar yet complex networks ranging from global air traffic to neural networks -- share very similar features, a study says. The findings could be ... Read more...
Posted in Sci-Tech |
Coming soon: Stronger, more effective password protection
April 21st, 2011 - 7:09 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Apr 21 (ANI): Researchers are one step closer to make the passwords of the future more secure and, at the same time, simpler to use.Researchers at the Max Planck Institute ... Read more...
Posted in Health Science |
Prince Charles to build model village in India
January 11th, 2011 - 7:33 pm ICT by IANS
London, Jan 11 (IANS) Britain's Prince Charles is building an eco-friendly model village for around 15,000 poor people in India, inspired by the slums depicted in Oscar-winning movie "Slumdog Millionaire".The multi-million-pound ... Read more...
Posted in Environment |
Body’s own cells to keep us healthy in the future
December 15th, 2010 - 5:51 pm ICT by ANI
London, Dec 15 (ANI): Using yeast cells, researchers at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, have taken a groundbreaking step towards being able to build complex systems in the future where the body's ... Read more...
Posted in Health Science |
New discovery brings quantum computers a step closer to reality
November 10th, 2010 - 12:38 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Nov 10 (ANI): Scientists have found that quantum computers should be much easier to build than previously thought, because they can still work with a large number of faulty or even ... Read more...
Posted in Health Science |
New study could help predict extinction tipping-point for species
September 9th, 2010 - 5:16 pm ICT by ANI
London, Sept 9 (ANI): A study at the University of South Carolina could pave way for predicting the extinction of a species.The research by John M. Drake at the University of Georgia ... Read more...
Posted in Health Science |
New method to synchronize clocks developed
July 21st, 2010 - 5:30 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, July 21 (ANI): Researchers have found a new way to accurately synchronize clocks.The clocks in computers, telecommunications, and other complex systems must stay accurate to within nanoseconds because their oscillators -- ... Read more...
Posted in Health Science |
Sea lamprey research provides insight into stress hormones’ evolution
July 20th, 2010 - 3:16 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, July 20 (ANI): Researchers at Michigan State University have, for the first time, identified a stress hormone in the sea lamprey, using the 500 million-year-old species as a model to understand ... Read more...
Posted in Health Science |
Better synchronization helps fish when under predator threat
May 26th, 2010 - 3:20 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, May 26 (ANI): A new research headed by scientists at the University of York has revealed that fish alter their movements when under threat from predators to help them to blend ... Read more...
Posted in Health Science |
Human touch in gaming to help computers solve complex problems
July 29th, 2009 - 5:55 pm ICT by IANS
Washington, July 29 (IANS) A new computer game prototype combines work and play to help solve a fundamental problem underlying many hardware design tasks. Called FunSAT, it could help integrated circuit designers ... Read more...
Posted in Sci-Tech |
New computer game harnesses human intuition to solve complex problems
July 29th, 2009 - 3:12 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, July 29 (ANI): A new computer game prototype, called FunSAT, utilises human ability of intuition to help solve a fundamental problem underlying many computer hardware design tasks.The online logic puzzle combines ... Read more...
Posted in Health Science |
Looking different improves ’survival’ among animals of same species
July 24th, 2009 - 2:14 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, July 24 (ANI): If you are confused as to why animals of the same species sometimes look very different from each other, biologists in England have an answer.Writing in the ... Read more...
Posted in Health Science |
Indian-origin researcher working on ways to monitor heat generated by data centre equipment
June 3rd, 2009 - 5:14 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, June 3 (ANI): An Indian-origin researcher at the Georgia Institute of Technology is working on new heat transfer models that can be used in future data centre facilities to reduce the ... Read more...
Posted in Health Science |
Earth might be ultimately inhospitable to life
May 26th, 2009 - 3:32 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, May 26 (ANI): A paleontologist has suggested that the Earth might be ultimately inhospitable to life, and that life itself might be the primary reason for shutting down Earth as a ... Read more...
Posted in Health Science |
Now, a computer that can work like a scientist to derive natural laws
April 3rd, 2009 - 12:27 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, April 3 (ANI): Researchers at Cornell University, US, using a computer, have developed an algorithm which can derive natural laws from observed data, just like scientists.What the researchers have done is ... Read more...
Posted in Health Science |
Beads experiment suggests avalanches size can be predicted
March 9th, 2009 - 3:08 pm ICT by ANI
London, March 9 (ANI): An experiment using steel beads has demonstrated that it is possible to know how big or small an avalanche can be, which could also have important consequences ... Read more...
Posted in Health Science |
Synthetic biology yielding clues to how life began on Earth
February 16th, 2009 - 1:13 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, February 16 (ANI): Synthetic biology researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, say that their efforts are yielding clues to the mystery of how life began on Earth.
Biochemist David ... Read more...
Posted in Health Science |
Scientists find Antarctic worm that survives cold with an antifreeze system
February 10th, 2009 - 4:43 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Feb 10 (ANI): Two researchers have reported the sighting of a worm in Antarctica that withstands its cold climate by cranking out antifreeze and can even go into suspended animation ... Read more...
Posted in Health Science |
Kiwi firm claims to have mapped the human mind
June 3rd, 2008 - 6:17 pm ICT by ANI
Wellington, June 3 (ANI): VortexDNA directors have claimed that they have mapped the structure of the human consciousness that allows predictions to be made about people and who they are something ... Read more...
Posted in Health Science |
Shockwave traffic jam recreated for first time on a test-track
March 4th, 2008 - 4:35 pm ICT by admin
London, March 4 (ANI): A team of Japanese researchers has recreated the phenomenon of shockwave traffic jams on a test-track for the first time.According to a report in New Scientist, shockwave ... Read more...
Posted in Health Science |