LONDON (TIP): A new blood test can predict if a woman would get breast cancer in the next two to five years and could create a “paradigm shift” in early diagnosis of the disease, reports […]
NEW YORK (TIP): The world’s first selfpowered video camera that runs without a battery and can produce an image each second has been developed by researchers led by an Indian-origin scientist. To develop the prototype camera, researchers designed a pixel that can not only measure incident […]
MUMBAI (TIP): BEST has introduced on a trial basis a device which helps visually challenged persons board buses. The device helps users to identify the route number of buses at a bus stop and locate […]
Nasa’s Curiosity rover has found that water can exist as a liquid near the Martian surface. Mars should be too cold to support liquid water at the surface, but salts in the soil lower its […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): Signs of alien life will be detected by 2025, while “definitive evidence” of extra-terrestrial beings may be found within the next 20 to 30 years, top Nasa scientists say. “I think we’re going […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): Not just planet Earth but the Sun too experiences seasonal changes, finds a significant research. By better understanding how these seasonal instabilities are formed one can greatly improve forecasts of space weather events. […]
New battery charges your phone in just 60 seconds! Washington: A new inexpensive aluminium battery that could charge cellphones in just one minute has been developed by Stanford scientists. The new aluminium battery is much safer than […]
LONDON (TIP): Samples from mummies in a 200-year-old crypt in Hungary have revealed that infections by multiple strains of tuberculosis (TB) gripped 18th century Europe when the disease was at its peak. Analysis of the […]
Google are making changes this April, are you aware of the impact it could have on your business? If you own a website then you’ll know how important it is to keep up to date […]
Scientists believe that the planet is coated in billions of years’ worth of carbon dust, after millennia upon millennia of being ‘dumped on’ by passing comets. The planet Mercury has long enjoyed a certain glamorous sheen […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): The first human settlers on the moon may live inside giant lava tubes large enough to house cities, which were formed by ancient volcanic eruptions, new research suggests. The volcanic features are an […]
BEIJING (TIP): China plans to build a huge solar power station 36,000km above the ground in an attempt to battle smog, cut greenhouse gases and solve energy crisis, much on the lines of an idea […]
AHMEDABAD: Speed bumps have always been cursed by motorists for reducing vehicle efficiency and wasting petrol. But not any more. Eight engineering students of the state have come out with small speed bumps that can […]
Robotic ants the size of a human hand that work together could be the future of factory production systems. The developers, German technology firm Festo, say it’s not just the unusual anatomy of real-world ants […]
Mumbai: There is no official word about this from the world’s largest social networking site Facebook Inc., but many users who have the upgraded WhatsApp installed on their Android phones can now make voice calls […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): Nasa’s Curiosity rover has found nitrogen on the surface of Mars, a significant discovery that adds to evidence the Red Planet could once have sustained life, the space agency said. By drilling into […]
More than one million homes across Britain could be heated using green Scandinavian-style technology that takes heat from nearby rivers and canals and pumps it into the home, the government will announce soon. The energy secretary […]
LONDON (TIP): Researchers have found that nasal drops of a “good” bacterial strain can help prevent the deadly disease meningitis. The findings could lead to a new approach that could help suppress meningitis outbreaks. “It […]
BEIJING (TIP): A new Ebola vaccine has been found to be safe in the first phase one trial based on the 2014 strain of the virus. The experimental vaccine, developed by the Beijing Institute of […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): Nasa’s Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) spacecraft has observed mysterious high-altitude dust cloud and aurora that reaches deep into the Martian atmosphere. The presence of the dust at orbital altitudes from 150 […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): Scientists have detected a possible Saturn-like ring system around the minor planet Chiron, making it the sixth such object in our solar system. There are only five bodies in our solar system that […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): Inadequate exposure to natural light during the day and overexposure to artificial light at night can actually mess up our body’s natural sleep/wake cycle, researchers say. “It’s become clear that typical lighting is […]
VANCOUVER (TIP): A terrifying killer liquid metal robot portrayed in the movie ‘Terminator’, has inspired what was heralded here as a revolution in 3D printing. At the TED conference on Tuesday, chemist Joseph DeSimone displayed […]
In case of fire, use elevators.” It sounds like apostasy, as if a lifetime’s indoctrination had suddenly been invalidated. But it is exactly the instruction that office workers in New York’s tallest skyscrapers may receive in […]
India’s first hand transplant was carried out successfully at the Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences, Kochi, on January 13, 2015 though several have been performed globally over the last decade. The milestone has already been lauded […]
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