Engineers Develop Alternative Solar-Heating Storage Material

Believe it or not. We could keep our homes warm during the cold nights without using electric heaters or burning wood or fossil fuels. Thanks to the genius of a team of young mechanical engineers of Andhra Pradesh which has invented a technique that converts solar energy into heat energy. They had found that the [...]

Scientists Finds Possible Cure for Leukemia from Fish Oil

A compound derived from fish oil is found to provide an effective remedy for leukemia, known as the cancer of white blood cells. Encouraged by successful experiments on  mice, the researchers applied for a patent of the compound and are now preparing to test it on human beings. The scientists are examining its efficacy in [...]

Beware of infections in tropical waters – Flood hit areas more vulnerable

Beware of snails before you swim in shallow waters of tropical countries such as India. You can avoid parasitic worm infections caused by the snails, according to a new study. The risk is more in flood hit areas, such as Andhra Pradesh which requires a ground survey to prevent infections which could be detected through [...]

New Experiment on to Revalidate Nobel Winning Universe Acceleration Finding

This year’s Nobel Prize winning finding that the ‘Universe is accelerating’ is being subjected to another validation test in the USA to confirm whether the expansion is “even or uneven”.   “We are testing the acceleration theory through another experiment to find whether the expansion is even or multi-directional. We are confident it would be [...]

New Therapies for Impotent Men Possible: Experiments on Mice Show

Researchers at the world famous US-based Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine have claimed to have unlocked the “biochemical chain of events” behind maintaining penile erection. They are confident that their discovery in mice with some herbs now underway may lead to new therapies for the suffering male population.   For two decades, scientists have [...]

A new cave-dwelling reef coral discovered in the Indo-Pacific

A new coral species that lives on the ceilings of caves in Indo-Pacific coral reefs has been discovered, shedding new light on the relation of reef corals with symbiotic algae. The species is named Leptoseris troglodyta. The word troglodyta is derived from ancient Greek meaning “one who dwells in holes”, a cave dweller. What makes it particularly interesting is [...]

Consuming Fish During Pregnancy Improves Child’s IQ: Study

Infants born to mothers who consumed more fish during pregnancy have recorded improved verbal intelligence, fine motor skills and pro-social behavior, says a latest study. The study, reported in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition was  coordinated by the University of Granada(Spain) professor Cristina Campoy Folgoso. The researchers collected blood samples from 2,000 women at 20 gestational [...]

India-Tanzania-Thailand Scientists to Study ‘Bitter Gourd’ for anti-diabetes

HYDERABAD(South India),Jan 22: A group of scientists belonging to three developing countries – India, Thailand and Tanzania – is trying to find out the ideal variety of the ‘bitter gourd’ (Karela) that is believed to check diabetes from ancient times. They are studying 10 hybrids of the Indian bitter gourd by analyzing the  germplasm and [...]

Smallest Storage Device in the World to Revolutionize Computing Developed

Miniaturization seems to be the buzzword of the 21st century in this global village. Thanks to the genius of German and American scientists who have pioneered a revolutionary technique that could be used to develop a new class of hard disk drives with nanomaterials which could store larger amounts of information in a tiny space [...]

A Stunning New Species of Black-and-Yellow Horned Viper discovered in Tanzania

Hyderabad, Jan 12,2012: A strikingly black-and-yellow snake with horn-like scales above its eyes has been discovered to stun the wildlife enthusiasts world over. The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) has just announced the discovery of the spectacularly colored snake from a remote area of Tanzania in East Africa. The animal, identified as Matilda’s horned viper, measures 2.1 [...]

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