The Tiffy Template, a grooved plate, by Paul D'Souza, an Indian innovator, is a free and simple invention to help the blind identify currency notes and avoid being cheated. When visually cha...(more)
Harvard labs, working on artificial leaves for years, came up with a bionic leaf, which goes beyond turning sunlight into liquid fuel. The system also contains hydrogen-eating bacteria that produ...(more)
Arun and Anoop Geroge, two brothers from Kerala have invented a low-cost wind turbine that will make renewable energy affordable for the common man. The energy generated by the turbine will be en...(more)
Scientists in the United States are attempting to create embryos that are part human and part animal, otherwise known as chimeras. Chimera is a term for a mythical Greek creature consisting of pa...(more)
Scientific fraud exists in the most prestigious medical journals, and it's been going on for decades. Many of the industry-sponsored studies mislead the public by promoting new drugs and vac...(more)
Accepting the challenge of storing renewable energy, a startup in Nevada has come up with a solution using the technology of pumped-storage hydropower. Here, the excess off-peak energy pushes a h...(more)
Researchers from the National Institutes of Health have discovered a new “weak spot”, called fusion peptide, that helps the virus fuse with a cell. The fusion peptide can be the vulnerable si...(more)
Turning salt water into drinking water on a large scale may after all be practical. The world’s largest seawater desalination plant, Sorek, is already providing 20 percent of the water cons...(more)
A British firm launched a platform, Interact IoT, that can link a wristband, which delivers a 255 volt shock, to a bank account. If the funds in the account go below an agreed limit, the band kic...(more)
Our wireless devices like phones and tablets use routers to connect online. The router emits WLAN signals – electromagnetic waves that can cause a lot of damage. We ignore this fact because we ...(more)
Inked and frustrated? Tattoos no longer need to be permanent, as a startup is designing an ink that is meant to disappear after a year. After the ink disappears, you apply a separate removal solu...(more)
Harvard scientists along with other scientists, lawyers, and business leaders held a closed-door conference to discuss the creation of a full human genome from synthetic materials. While such wor...(more)
The Railways have come up with a train that’s completely fitted with solar panels on the roof. Soon, the train will go through its first trial in Jodhpur.These solar panels will generate electr...(more)
Despite a funding ban, several U.S. research facilities are moving forward with experiments that could produce human–animal chimeras. Scientists are attempting to grow human organs inside anima...(more)
Japan has 34,000 gas stations, and now it has over 40,000 charging points for electric cars. This includes car chargers in homes and stations on the street.You can fill your tank with gas in a fe...(more)
In a largest study on genes involved in human behavior, researchers found genes associated with subjective well-being - how happy a person thinks or feels about his or her life. The gene variants...(more)
Roughly 50 devices and appliances in a typical household are always drawing power, even when they appear to be off, or in standby, or sleep mode, estimates Alan Meier, a senior scientist at the D...(more)
As India struggles with drought, scientists at Bhabha Atomic Research Institute have devised a way to make 6.3 million litre of potable water every day from sea water. With the help of nanotechno...(more)
Sare Jahan se Acha Foundation developed an app, called Re-unite, to help find missing senior citizens, especially patients of dementia and Alzheimer’s, and reunite them with their family. The a...(more)
Soon you will be able to charge your phone with the power of a potted plant. In this technology, the system takes the energy produced in the soil surrounding the roots of the plant and transfers ...(more)
Researchers from Stanford University have synthesized a polymer that can be stretched, heal itself, and respond to an electric field. This could lead to artificial skin and muscle that can be use...(more)
The view, that gender difference lies in the physical appearance and more importantly character trait differences between male and female brains, has now been negated by a recent discovery. Resea...(more)
Think NASA, think astronauts, space shuttles and men on the moon. The US space agency but also creates new technology that saves lives all over the planet. They map Earth’s topography to find h...(more)
Anthropologists and evolutionary biologists have long struggled to explain the existence of menopause, a life stage limited to humans. New mathematical evidence in support of the theory of &lsqu...(more)
Apple has entered into a tie-up with World Wildlife Fund (WWF) and developers from around the globe to launch Apps for Earth at its online App Store. Special collection of apps whose proceeds wil...(more)
Yuri Gagarin made history by becoming the first human in space. It was on 12 April 1961. He was revered to be a hero. Monuments erected. And then he was gone. The mysterious death of Gagarin is s...(more)
Using a special 3D camera called the 3dMDface, researchers in China analyzed 3D facial images of over 300 men and women to determine the ages of the subjects in the study. The inquiry disclosed s...(more)
This revolutionary ceramic solar-powered five-litre still, called Eliodomestico, has the ability to combat one of the greatest threats to human life in the developing world, water insecurity. Des...(more)
Countries space agency is playing a pivotal role in bringing down the prices of onions and potatoes you buy. Tapan Misra, the director, Space Applications Centre, an arm of ISRO said it has been ...(more)
Past 18 months, doctors have seen alarming rise in cases of muscular pain, inflammation of finger joints and numbness in thumbs and index fingers in children between age 8-15, all because of over...(more)
The tree of life, first described by Charles Darwin, is a diagram which shows the relationships between all organisms, living and extinct. Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, h...(more)
Cochin International Airport has become the first in the world to run entirely on solar power. With 46,150 panels laid across 45 acres producing 12-megawatt peak capacity, the 7th busiest airport...(more)
To mark the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare's death, SwiftKey has launched a new "limited edition" Shakespearean keyboard, aptly called the ShakeSpeak. While SwiftKey’s other keyb...(more)
A team of US researchers used 3D printing technique to create a handheld sponge-like structure that could help in mitigating pollution.Led by chemistry professor Matthew Hartings from American U...(more)
A new study on migratory patterns of birds reveals that climate change is having a cascading effect on birds. The study on the warming climate's effect on common birds is the first real demo...(more)
New evidence suggests there is a fifth force of nature, apart from the 4 fundamental forces: gravity, electromagnetic, and strong and weak nuclear forces. Physicists in Hungary have detected a ne...(more)
The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry, the gatekeeper to the periodic table, announced the proposed names for elements 113, 115, 117 and 118: nihonium, moscovium, tennessine and o...(more)
Researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory accidentally created nanorods oozing water whenever the humidity in specimen holder was 50-80 percent. This material could have huge benefits ...(more)
A pear-shaped, asymmetrical atomic nuclei has been confirmed by scientists in a recent study, which shows that it is possible to have a nuclei that has more mass and charge on one side than the o...(more)
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