Forget waiting for days for the results of laboratory tests, for patients will soon be able to get complex analyses done on the spot-thanks to a new system developed by Fraunhofer research scientists
The researchers have created a modular platform for in vitro diagnosis, which enables various types of bioanalysis – of blood and saliva [...]
Hi-tech criminals continue to remain a menace despite a series of strikes against them by finding other routes to send spam, say experts.
Specialists found networks of hijacked computers, or botnets, that were dealt with arrests, net access cutoffs and infiltrating command systems.
But, despite falling response rates, the efforts have fallen short in gaining complete [...]
The assumptions that orang-utans prefer to remain at bay from water seem to have fallen flat after a group was snapped getting wet for various reasons.
Conservationists were stunned when a group of orphaned orang-utans that had been relocated to Kaja Island in Borneo splashed themselves with one pair even having sex in water.
“My guess [...]
Market researchers seem to have their prayers answered after experts’ creation of a technology that will get inside the heads of consumers – literally.
Boffins have come up with neuromarketing, a brain-imaging technique that can allegedly read answers written in the brainwaves.
According to Thom Noble, managing director of Neurofocus Europe, the company running the demo, [...]
A new research has shown that as the earth’s average temperature rises, so does human “heat” in the form of violent tendencies, which links global warming with increased violence in human beings.
Using US government data on average yearly temperatures and the number of violent crimes between 1950 and 2008, the researchers estimate that if [...]
Reports indicate that art experts have found what they believe is the earliest signature of the master renaissance artist Raphael, hidden within a painting’s arabesque decorations.
According to a report in Discovery News, featuring the words “RAPHAEL SANT”, the signature has been detected in an obscure painting that has been kept in private collections for [...]
A team of scientists are all set to undertake an expedition to explore the rupture site of the 8.8-magnitude Chilean earthquake, which is one of largest quakes in recorded history.
The scientists are funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and affiliated with the Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO) at the University of California at [...]
A new research paper has pointed how militaries worldwide could use the Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi program, founded by Indian spiritual guru Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, as a non-religious and scientifically verified way to prevent war and terrorism.
When used in a military context, these meditation [...]
Ancient bite marks and fossilized feces discovered in Georgia, US, have indicated that a giant crocodile that roamed the Southeast United States about 79 million years ago could take down dinosaurs its own size.
The giant reptile, called Deinosuchus, was up [...]
A new research by scientists at South Dakota State University (SDSU) is exploring a native perennial called cup plant as a potential new biomass crop that could also store carbon in its extensive root system and add [...]
The latest version of the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species has declared the fish family Acipenseridae, more commonly known as sturgeon or caviar fish, as the most endangered group of animals.
According to a report in New Scientist, the report says that 85 per cent [...]
A new research paper indicates that an international team of scientists has established an extensive DNA database that will permit cat fur to be used more often and accurately as forensic evidence.
“The increasing popularity of the domestic cat as a household pet has unknowingly fostered the distribution [...]
A team of scientists has shown how it is possible to make designer nanomaterials on-demand.
The researchers, from Berkeley Lab’s Molecular Foundry, in collaboration with a researcher at the University of California, Berkeley, have shown how nanocomposites with desired properties can be designed [...]
In what could be a boon for cardiologists, a new technology to keep turbulence down in pipes could actually keep arteries clear and save lives, according to a study.
In an effort to help lower the cost of pumping fluids through pipelines, [...]
People from large industrialized societies tend to be nice with strangers. Now, researchers have found why we are surprisingly fair and trusting with unfamiliar individuals.
This pro-social behaviour results from a change in social norms that allowed us to trust strangers, according to the new study.
The change is likely linked to a rise in [...]
Those never-ending lines at store checkouts could soon be history, thanks to radio-frequency identification (RFID) tags printed through a new roll-to-roll process that could replace bar codes and make checking out of a store a snap.
Rice University researchers, in collaboration with a team led by Gyou-jin Cho at Sunchon National University in Korea, have [...]
Experiments by a team of anthropologists have shown that fossil footprints made 3.6 million years ago are the earliest direct evidence of early tree-dwelling hominids using the kind of efficient, upright posture and gait now seen in modern humans.
More than three million years ago, the ancestors of modern humans were still spending a considerable [...]
A team of geneticists, with the help of the composition of just two human genomes, has computed the size of the human population 1.2 million years ago, from which everyone in the world is descended, as being 18,500 people.
According to a report in the New York Times, the estimate was made by a team [...]
A key cellular mechanism that guides embryonic heart tissue formation-a process which, if disrupted, can lead to a number of common congenital heart defects – has been identified by scientists at the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California (USC).
Heart tissue forms in two distinct phases known as the First Heart [...]
Reports indicate that military experts in Assam, India, have developed a grenade made using the world’s hottest chilli, which is more than 1,000 times stronger than the average cooking spice.
According to a report in The Sun, the researchers have developed the new crowd control grenade packed with ground seeds from the bhut jolokia chilli, [...]
In a study, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine researchers have shed light on a rare inherited disorder called stiff skin syndrome.
By studying the genetics of the syndrome, boffins have learned more about scleroderma, a condition that leads to hardening of the skin as well as other debilitating and often life-threatening problems. he findings, [...]
Great Ormond Street Hospital doctors have carried out a surgery to rebuild the windpipe of a 10-year-old British boy using stem cells developed within his body.
In an operation Monday lasting nearly nine hours, doctors at the centre implanted the boy, who has a rare condition called Long Segment Congenital Tracheal Stenosis, with a donor [...]
If reports are to be believed, the Moon may have bucketloads of water, with a NASA release indicating the amount of water ice detected in the north lunar pole as 600 million metric tons, stashed away in 40 craters.
This new announcement comes hot on the tail of a series of water discoveries on the [...]
A team of archaeologists has claimed that a temple being excavated in southeastern Turkey is 12,000 years old and is likely the oldest temple ever uncovered in the world.
According to a report by United Press International (UPI), the site was first identified in 1986 when a farmer tilling his field in Sanliurfa found a [...]
The body sensors that bring tears in your eyes when you’re cutting onions have been around for 500 million years, says a new study.
According to a report by Brandeis University scientists in Nature, whenever a person chokes on acrid cigarette smoke or feels like he/she is burning up from a mouthful of wasabi-laced sushi, [...]
Presence of a pretty woman can lead men to throw caution to the wind, says a new University of Queensland research.
To reach the conclusion, Professor Bill von Hippel and doctoral student Richard Ronay, from the university’s School of Psychology examined the links between physical risk-taking in young men and the presence of attractive women [...]
Scientists have established the first casual link between climate change and the timing of a natural event, which is namely the emergence of the common brown butterfly.
Although there have been strong correlations between global warming and changes in the timing of events such as animal migration and flowering, it has been hard to show [...]
Scientists have broken new ground in a treatment for babies born with severe cleft palates.
Clefts are quite common in newborns and in severe cases surgery is required to correct the problem. Moreover, future complications can occur as the child grows into an adult.
But now the preliminary results on a hydrogel material studied using [...]
With the advent of lecture-hall laptops and online coursework, there has been an upsurge in unnoticed cheating among students, which, according to researchers, is a significant cause of course failure.
A researcher from the University of Kansas has teamed up with colleagues from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to get a better handle on copying [...]
Reports indicate that University of Florida engineering researchers have found they can ignite certain nanoparticles using a low-power laser, a development they say opens the door to a wave of new technologies in health care, computing and automotive design.
According to researchers Vijay Krishna, Nathanael Stevens, Ben Koopman and Brij Moudgil, they used lasers not [...]
