Science Wonders !!

149$ Movement measuring Wristband launched by Nike !!

2012-02-03T07:35:00.000-08:00

The fuel band launched by the Nike will sell for $149 in the United States starting on coming February 22, 2012 that will provide information about calories, steps, time and NikeFuel.
NikeFuel is the company’s indicator for the measuring of score that awards equal points for the same activity done regardless of gender or physique.

Usage
The user will set his/her goal depending upon how active they want to be each day, and the band will display in shape of 20 LED lights that go from red to green as soon as the user get closer to that goal.
The band is synchronized with the Nike+ website through USB or Bluetooth to a free iPhone application to record the daily activity and track the progress.

Launching of this bank not only increases the market share but also the share price of the Nike at the start also.

Diamond Planet discovered !!

2011-10-23T23:52:00.000-07:00

Suppose if you are sent to a planet that is entirely made up of diamond, then what will be your feelings.

Its almost shocking for the diamond lovers that a team of researchers from UK, US, Australia, Germany and Italy with the help of Professor Matthew Bailes of Swinburne University of Technology using many telescopes in Australia, US and UK had discovered this planet in the Sepens group in our Milky Way galaxy.

But only one tiny problem is there, this planet is about 4000 light years away from us. So even if we travel with the speed of light it will take 4000 years to reach.

It has a diameter of 60 Kilometers about five times of our earth and one of the amazing thing is that it was discovered by a strange manner that a nearby pulsar was sending its signals. Pulsars are very small stars with only 15 miles diameter that send strong radio waves.

These radio waves regularly sweep our planet as the pulsar spins, as the radio waves was changing regularly, it led the team of astronomers to think that there is a nearby planet responsible for the change in its modulation, after estimation and examination of its density showed that it is much larger than expected, largely because it is made of crystalline substance means…Diamonds.

Cure of Heroin by Vaccination !!

2011-09-10T20:38:00.000-07:00

Excess of everything is bad, even if u take a simple black tea in excess it cause loss in sleep and other mental disorders, same is the case with heroin.

Scientists in California of “Scripps Research Institute” had developed a vaccine that helps to prevent the advent of “High” after taking heroin.

It can reduce the high effect of heroin that causes the brain to go into unconsciousness; this vaccine will be useful and effective for those who want to break away from addiction to heroin.

This vaccine produces such antibodies that prevent heroin or it metabolites from reaching it to the brain.

Now the scientists are collaborating with the researchers at “Walter Reed Army Institute of development” for the dual-purpose vaccine that will be effective against HIV and heroin also within a single dose.

Now the time is near when most of the diseases will be cured with a single dose and no any disease will be left that there will be no vaccine for it.

World’s cheapest Houses to be built by India !!

2011-09-02T02:13:00.000-07:00

As the increase in the population of India and the shelter demand for the poor peoples, Tata comes in the field to fulfill the demand of today by making cheapest houses for his country, same as Tata Nano made world cheapest car few years later for just $2500 now Tata had set a goal to achieve a new milestone by building world’s cheapest houses for just $715 (32000Rs).

Each house will be built within a week under a scheme of “Indira Awaas Yojana Shelter Rehabilitation”; it will consist of 20 square meter area.

Due to the increase in the rate of population, there come the difficulty, How to provide safe and clean hygienic shelter? That must be in the purchasing power of poor peoples of India and for the 800 million peoples who lives below poverty line.

As India had reached 1.2 billion in population and it will cross over China by 2030. Therefore the houses are marketed at Rs40000 and it will began a new era for poor slums peoples living unhygienic-ally in the major cities of India in the close and muddy streets.

And one of the best things is that, most of the people who live in rented houses will switch over to these due to affordability and convenience.

It is the most positive way of poise earning, that there is someone who also thinks for these poor and the own house they want same as us.

Thanks to God and Tata.

Chicken Feathers now used in making Plastics !!

2011-05-27T08:47:00.000-07:00

Nature hasn’t made anything useless even a small little bee can produce honey. Till now the chicken feathers were considered useless and they were only used in making some low quality chicken feeds or mostly thrown away as garbage.

Almost billion tons of chicken feathers are produced each year worldwide, these feathers contains keratin a tough protein that is also present in the cow hoofs and other animals horns. If a thermoplastic film is made from keratin then it becomes too strong and tear resistant. Now by the use of Keratin Dr Yiqi Yang and his colleagues in USA “University of Nebraska Lincoln have found that, they can make tough plastic by the help of chicken feathers.

At the start the plastic made from it lacks in water resistance, but after the further hard work of Yang and his fellows they added another synthetic plastic making chemical to overcame it, they added methyl acrylate. Then the outcome was tremendous and the product was both tough and water resistant. This effort will increase the utilization of chicken feathers in making of different plastic products.

Now there is a lesson, that God had nothing made useless.

Grain Salt Tiny Cameras !!

2011-04-03T06:10:00.000-07:00

Cameras are not only used in saving memorable pictures but they are also used to diagnose various hidden diseases. Therefore the scientists of Germany of “Fraunhofer Institute” had developed an extremely tiny video camera that is not bigger than a grain of a salt. This tiny camera will be used to go through into various internal organs. One of the main good news about it is, that it is inexpensive and when it will be used than it may be replaced or thrown away with a new one. Most of the "Endoscopes" uses optic fibers but these cameras use normal electric cables. This new technology will be launched in the market in the next year for the use and cure of mankind. And think for a while, what will be tinier then a grain of a salt?

Cellulose Bacteria now used in Biofuels !!

2011-04-03T06:06:00.000-07:00

Now most of the countries are searching for the alternative way of fuel due to the rise in prices and its effect on the economy. Now as the evolution of science and to use the alternative natural resources, scientists are now moving toward certain types of bacteria that contain cellulose, as cellulose is the most common natural compound on our planet. Cotton contains 90%, wood 50% of cellulose and even all plants consists of 33% of cellulose as it is also the main component of the cell wall of the plants. Cellulose consists of hundred and thousands of chains that are linked together in glucose units. Previously lots efforts are done to convert this cellulose into biofuels like ethanol but not succeeded, may be the main reason of it is, the difficulty in breaking of its components in starch than sugar because of the linking of cellulose units with each other. But now the good news is that the scientists at Bio-energy Science Center in US had successfully converted cellulose directly into “Isobutanol” by using genetically sequenced strain of cellulose, it is more advantageous biofuel because it can directly be used in car engines as it also contains the same amount of heat as of petrol. Just wait for the few more successful developments then it will be commercially available for use and you will be using biofuel in your cars in the coming future that will be produced from grass.

Helicopter as Cheap as a Car !!

2011-02-17T09:58:00.000-08:00

If you are fed up with the day-to-day traffic jams, and wants to travel to your desire destination by your own helicopter, then you can buy a small personal helicopter for the price of a car.

Its kit costs about 3000 Dollars but you can build it from experts for another 4000 Dollars.

Mosquito XE is an ultra light helicopter, and if a customer wants a full established and equipped version then it may cost 20000 Dollars may be less then 20K$.

One of its best quality, that it can travel about 90 Kilometers with having fuel of only 5 gallons as it capacity says.

So enjoy fast and cheap luxury traveling at the age of even high standard of living.

Rolling Function of Alarm Clock like a Ball !!

2010-12-17T08:53:00.001-08:00

Most of the peoples cannot wake up even when the alarm is rung because of the sleep left in eyes and we seems that it’s over. Therefore alarm are used to get up early, as mostly we have no habit of rising early, and if you have no one at home to put a glass of water on your face and you have to relay upon alarms then search for, such a type of alarm that is used to your habit.

Therefore a rolling alarm is invented that hides and changes it’s location when you want to switch it off without opening your eyes, it runs away from your hand hence making you to get up and find where it is ringing, by doing this one may awake in full consciousness and dizziness removes quickly.

These alarm not only contain a fixed type tattering or tic tic sound, but you can also record and select your favorite tone or some kind of words such as, “Hurry, your boss is calling you”.

Age of Wireless sound Hats !!

2010-12-17T08:45:00.000-08:00

Gone is the age of wires, hanging from our head, mostly used for music? Now we have no worry about the intermingle wires to set them or to hide them in front of Mom, Dad or in school for just a 10 minuets of song to enjoy in a break.

This all is present, now in a small winter hat containing the same high quality head-phone speakers, just plug the transmitter into your MP3 player of your own choice and enjoy the same quality of sound bursting into your ear drums.

So warm your ears with music of your choice in a cool winter season. And its all within some nominal price about 35$ to 39$.

Bicycles but Electrical !!

2010-11-23T09:48:00.000-08:00

Just imagine, how long we ran fast and travel by using two wheels. Now this is the age of electric bicycles.

We can ride these bicycles just like a normal cycle, but if you are going at some distant place and got tired just switch the electric power batteries on, then by using these batteries we can travel up to 100 Miles (about 160 Kilometers) without any recharging.

One of the German manufacturers Kalkhoff comes with such three types of “e-bikes” that are fitted 6, 12 & 18 amp-hour batteries. The variety kept in these batteries are due to the need of the customer, if you are traveling to short distance than 8-amp hour battery is enough for the bike.

Now lets read about 18-inch tall portable e-bike that is too small to carry, such a bike is powered by a lithium ion battery, it can travel about 12mph for up to 10 miles without any recharges.

This was the whole story of latest e-bikes coming in our lives.

The ancient Bacteria, now used for the cure of Wrinkles !!

2010-10-12T08:00:00.000-07:00

Good news for the above 40 peoples and also for my Grand Father/Mother that the cure for the wrinkles become now more easy.

Some kind of bacteria the blue green algae (cynobacteria) that existed on our earth for 3.4 billion years. Their main source of energy is the sunlight by which they survive through the process of photosynthesis.

But this energy taking process may expose them with the UV radiations, but these bacteria's had developed a special mechanism to protect themselves from UV rays after the struggle of millions of years, that involves the synthesis of small molecules called Mycosporines.

By keeping in view of this new process of self protecting molecules of bacteria’s two persons Emily Balskus and Christopher Walsh at the Harvard Medical School in Boston had made effort to prepare the genes that are responsible for sun screening substance and had transferred them into new organism called as E.coli, which will be then used to manufactured the same sun-protecting molecules.

Now a company in the Switzerland named as “Mibelle Biochemistry” has started producing sun-protecting creams by direct extraction of the active substances present in the ancient bacteria.

So when there is a disease there may be a cure for it, as it’s the natural justice.

Cell Phones will now be Charged from your Shoes !!

2010-09-16T10:54:00.000-07:00

Travelers while traveling to the distant places for tourism, research, hiking and mountain climbing face one of the major problem of non-availability of the electric power to charge their cell phones or any satellite or GPS receiver.

Therefore a very innovative device had been created in the Micro-manufacturing Institute at Louisiana Tech University in USA which when fitted in the heels of the shoes, it can generate enough power to charge a cell phone or other such a tiny electric appliances.

As a considerable amount of power is generated while walking therefore some part of it can be stored by fitting a tiny piezoelectric material in the shoe that convert mechanical energy in to electrical energy through some kind of special circuits installed.

This material (Lead Zirconate Titanate) generates electricity when pressure is exerted on such crystals during walking; this type of piezoelectricity is now been used in many of applications such as ignition source of cigarette lighters and push start propane barbecues.

Well I think, their will now be no need to get worried about any disconnection from your family & world even if you are in the Sahara desert or in Africa forests, by just spending just a little more cost on your shoes.

Charging Cars without Plugs !!

2010-09-03T03:12:00.000-07:00

Now peoples are switching towards electric cars more than others fuel cars due to the lower running cost, increase in performance and environment friendly.

But there is only one thing to be worried that if you had forgotten to charge your car and at the mean while your car stops then no other way on the mid of the road.

For the proactive safety of the drivers, special base units had been installed on the floor of the garage, from that when a car is parked it can be automatically charged with the socket connected without any plugs and no any tension of short circuits.

It works when the coil fitted in base unit of the garage floor generates electromagnetic field that when interacts with the coil fitted in the car converts it’s into electric current.

Other organizations had also tired to develop such a wireless system including NISSAN, KAIST (Korean Institute) etc, so the main function of the science and technology is to make the life easy and easy and to make this world the best place to live.

Now Traffic Lights Will Talk With Your Car !!

2010-07-19T02:10:00.000-07:00

Time and petrol wastage will be reduced due to the creation of talking traffic lights.

The car manufacturing company Audi has developed a magnificent communication system that enables traffic lights and cars talk with each other electronically.

Such a system allows the driver to view on the display car screen that how much time it will take by the car to reach near to signals when it will turn green to red or red to green.
By using such a method the driver will judge him/herself that to minimize the speed of the car in order to reduce petrol and time wastage.
Another advantage of such system is that it provides the information about traffic jam at the various points of the city and also allows the automatic planning of the route so that the driver can easily judge the cost effective route and reach the destination with minimum time and less usage of fuel.

The drivers of high populated countries with poor traffic rules will be now able to manage easily, if they properly follow such a system.

Thanks to science and technology that made our lives so easy and comfortable to live within such a cruel world.

Design your Babies according to your Choice !!

2010-06-30T09:54:00.000-07:00

Now peoples will choose the color of skin, hairs and eyes of their babies according to their choice and pleasure.

A fertility institute providing such technology published in New York Daily News but when public criticized about such advancement then the process stopped. But there may be a chance for further process to start, as the technology is still known.

This technique includes the examination of embryos before fertilization in the womb, and such a process is known as pre-implantation genetic diagnosis (PGD). This process has been useful in the prevention of different diseases to be transferred from parents to the children and saved many newly coming lives.

Different types of traits and test had been taken and offered by studying the embryo that includes height, and other personality characteristics in the humans such as intelligence to be adopting in the upcoming baby secretly and privately.

It’s not the end of the whole story, know it’s up to us, that how we want and in what character to develop our baby according to our desires.

Its right till know, but I am afraid of nothing just about the time, “When a time will come that each male had his own child to be born”.

Robots learning form Lobsters !!

2010-06-09T07:13:00.000-07:00

Lobsters contain special sense of direction detection that allows them to locate the position through global positioning system (GPS) which allow them to sense the earth magnetic field with great accuracy that enable them to travel in the desired direction without losing the way.

Lobsters can find their way even 37 kilometers of distance from their position. This mode is now used in robots by the scientists at the University of North Carolina, USA.

Buildings contains magnetic field that can be easily mapped into magnetometer, this field than will be used and stored in the memory of the robots. y using such maps robots will be able to find their direction without any visionary ability by coping the behavior of lobsters.

Now imagine what other habit or extraordinary sense will be detected from the birds for the further development in the science and technology.

Detecting Gold through Bacteria’s !!

2010-06-07T06:27:00.000-07:00

Now bacteria will be used for the extraction of gold. Some bacteria had been found that remains where gold deposits exist but still here is a mystery that whether these bacteria help in the production of pure metallic gold or not.
A Doctor form the University Adelaide, Australia named Frank Reith had found that dissolve gold contains the mixture of certain bacterium, as it forms toxic surplus contains compound.

Such bacteria had the ability to protect itself by the conversion of soluble compounds to harmless metallic gold.

The bacterium will be modified in such a way that it will produce the flash light when it will contact with the gold, this is known as interesting gold prospecting technique. And if the bacterium is mixed with the soil than it will be able to detect whether gold extracts exists in soil or not.

Fastest Car that goes 2487 miles per Gallon !!

2010-05-18T04:23:00.000-07:00

More and more advancements are accepted in the field of card world, now the manufacturers are trying to create such a technology that consume less fuel and travel more.

But this type of car is not made any manufacturer or any company, such a prototype car is built by the students at Laval University in Quebec, in this regard Canada won the first prize at the 2010 Shell Eco-Marathon in the month of April by achieving the speed of 2487 mpg.

These cars were built with special lightweight materials with supporting aerodynamic design and having a special type of combustion engine to run the car faster on the road.

Another record of a car was made by a hydrogen powered car manufactured by the Swiss institute ETH that reached 5385 kilometers which is equivalent to one liter of petrol.

It’s not the ends of limits in the field of car and racing, more developments are accepted to be done in the future, let’s hope for the good and fastest future.

Can you Attract the Opposite Sex Chemically !!

2010-04-22T09:22:00.000-07:00

Ohh, scientists had left nothing that was necessary to improve the quality living and duration of life and now they are searching, how to chemically improve the sexual desire for the opposite sex.

This is very common practice in animals but now it is also noticed that there are certain chemicals that may enhance sexual desire in humans.

In this regard nature had made some special chemicals (insect hormones) in bees, butterflies and moths and other animals, when they are released they convey a special sexual desiring message to other bees etc.

Butterflies and moths are so sensitive in this style that they even sense these chemical about 10.6km away. Farmers had taken the advantage by keeping that weakness of bees in mind; they trap all the female bees in the trap by putting such chemical and hence preventing them from breeding in the farm.

This was the story of animals, now if I say that there are some chemicals that arouse sexual desire in men and women then it will be absolutely right.

There is a chemical known as Yohimbine an alkaloid that is found in bark of plants of genus Yohimbe, which also in use for many years for gaining power etc.

Such research is done vastly how to improve this sexual desire for opposites, but still this formula is used in perfumed only and more will be in the future.

So think a while, when girls will be attracted through chemicals not only by physical appearance etc.

Windows with self-cleaning Effects !!

2010-04-22T09:15:00.000-07:00

God had created his creatures with the level of top qualities, if we take a simple example of lotus plant, the leaves of this plant are able to keep them clean.

This idea leads the scientists to make the glass windows with self cleaning effects from dust, moisture etc.

The scientists from Tel Aviv University accidentally developed a new type of nano-material surface, when they were developing a cure for the Alzheimer disease.

This material consists of the surface which is made of tiny hairs of small proteins molecules that are about one millionth of a millimeter in size which are resistant to water and heat.

These particles work like a coating and repel any of the dust and moisture particles hence keeping the glass clean.

This material is useful in keeping clean the windows of sky scrapers which otherwise require window washing.

One of the other useful and efficient effect of these particles are to keep cleaning the dirt and dust of solar panels which will automatically increase the efficiency up to 32 percent.

Now the time is near when their will be no need of widow washing etc.

Cure for Color Blindness with the help of gene Therapy !!

2010-02-06T07:00:00.000-08:00

By studying in depth the structures of genes and their effects on the human body, scientists are now able to fight against color blindness.

Color blindness is more common in the man than women; about one man in 13 and one woman in 230 suffer from some kind of color blindness or some similar kinds of defects.

This defect occurs due to some mutations caused in genes hence that results in inactivation of light absorbing pigments in the retina. And if the red photo pigment is absent then the red and green objects will appear as different shades of grey.

Color blindness is also found in some types of monkeys.
At the Eye Institute in the University of Washington, Jay and Neitz, husband and wife has discovered that is possible to cure this defect with the help of gene therapy.

This experiment was first done on the monkeys and the virus containing the defect free gene was injected into the young color blind monkey, the monkey was first trained for the identification of colors and will awarded by the fresh juices on the correct identification.
At that time before treatment monkeys only identified blue and yellow color spots without identifying red and green, but after gene treatments of five months the monkeys were capable of recognizing the red and green spots as well.

This type of gene therapy will also start on the humans but it will take some period to initialize this step.

Let’s explore Dark matter mysteries of the Universe, with fastest computer of the World !!

2010-02-06T06:52:00.000-08:00

Now the time is coming when we will explore each and every part of the universe by the use of latest technology.

IBM and Los Alamos National Laboratory had developed the world fastest computer named as “Roadrunner”, which is able to perform 100 trillions operations per seconds.
It is basically designed for the advancement in the US nuclear program, as well as it will also leads to the exploration in the dark energies in the universe.
This machine is huge in size and covers 6,000 square feet of space, its 10,000 connections of optical fiber covering the area of 57km and its memory weights 500,000 pounds that include 80 terabytes space.

Still we had only explored 4.6% mass of the universe that is visible and made of atoms. Other 22% is dark matter whose presence can only be judged with the help of moving galaxies and other 73% is still the secret mystery of the universe called as dark energy.

Roadrunner had used the base particle for the calculation that has the mass of billons suns. Such a huge mass was necessary as galaxies had been molded which has the mass of about trillions suns.

This computer will use particles equal to 64 billions of suns, to explore the dimension of the universe that is highly fascinating and mind fighting.

Enhance your Memory with Healthy Diet !!

2010-01-13T08:16:00.001-08:00

Our body flourishes in the direction of what we take daily in the form of solid as well as liquid content.
By eating less our body not only develops physically but also its mental capabilities increases.

A research done in “National Academy of Sciences (USA) showed that Floel and his colleagues at the University of Germany told that when a particular group of persons of the average age of 60 were kept on the diet with 30 percent less calories, scored 20 percent high in the world memory test.

Now it’s up to you where you take much or less but the main thing is that what you take must be balanced and it may also help you to get some extra marks in exams.

Flying of Humans !!

2010-01-12T09:32:00.000-08:00

Nowadays there is no need of any public transport or vehicles for going to offices, schools and other places because last year in September, a person named as Yves Rossy builds a special suit that can lift up humans in the air and a man can move to where ever he wants to go.

This suit consists of four small jet engines that are fitted on folded wings. Yves flew 22 miles after jumping from a plane with the help of this suit in France and become the first “bird man” who flew the jet powered personal wing.

Now the time is near when you and your children will wear these jet powered wings and move outside for outing, and teenagers will easily escape for dates.

Shirts with Light Emitting Technology

2009-12-31T08:05:00.000-08:00

Nothing has been left through the arms of the science, now technology has been so advanced that an ink has been developed which can print lightening patterns on T-Shirts. This ink has been developed by Dai Nippon Printing Company.

This ink is mixed with silica nano-particles which can form a gel that can be used in the process of printing.

Now this company is trying to develop light emitting posters and different types of clothing, now there is no need of flash light in dark you will glow by wearing simply T-shirts.

Treatment of Cancer through Nanotechnology

2009-12-07T08:34:00.000-08:00

Now scientists are working on each and every aspect of the life to make it better.

We often heard the word nanotechnology, now it is going to be used for the treatment of diseases, because when materials are reduced to the size of one millionth of centimeter, then they exhibit special properties which are being used in making of medicines, cosmetics, water purification, etc.

Most of the scientists working in the New York, “The New University”, they have now developed nanofibers, which can take the medicines and drugs to the exact diseased area that need to be attacked. This will also prevent the other normal parts of the body from side effects.

These nanofibers will takes the anti-cancer drugs to the accurate cancerous sites that need to be cured.

Is Rain is Produced through Bacteria ?

2009-11-30T08:25:00.000-08:00

We had still used bacteria’s in foods and making some medicines, but scientists belonging from Sweden have proposed that bacteria excretes certain types of surfactants that may cause the formation of clouds and lead to rain.
Evidence had been found in the Barbara Naziere at the University of Stockholm that some powerful surfactants secreted by some bacteria helps in creation of water droplets.
A study had bee done over clouds above Brazil, Sweden and Finland has shown that they contain tiny amounts of substances same as surfactants secreted by bacteria.
Now it depends upon us that how can we take benefit of these useful bacteria’s.

Beware of Drone Insects as they can See now !!

2009-11-30T08:16:00.000-08:00

US military has a fitted mini camera on insects sized aircraft, so they can transmit sound and photographs.
These cameras are very light and fitted on a single micro chip. Known as “Insects drones”, these are very effective and are controlled about a kilometer away with the help of its estimated frequency.
This device was funded by NASA and developed by Caltech’s Jet Propulsion Lab in Pasadena.
This device will help a lot in secret missions of crime investigation, military purposes and for security purposes etc.

Let imagine a fly sitting on your wall and transmitting your videos as well as your voice.

Can We See with the Help of our Tongue?

2009-11-20T08:59:00.000-08:00

A new hope for blind peoples, a time will come when their will be no existence of blindness in this world.

“Wicab” is the company, based in Wisconsin, and in United States has developed a device for blind peoples that allow blind persons to partly see with the help of their tongues.

It consists of a small digital video camera that is fixed into the sunglasses worn by the blind person, which transmits digital signals from the camera into a small base unit that converts these signals into electrical pulses.

These pulses when received are then transmitted into a “lollipop” like device which lies on the tongue. Blind person will then feel the tingling sensations through his tongue which allow him to sense his surroundings.

But some kind of training and practice must be required to fin his way through doors, find various switches and other little sensitive objects.

This device will be marked soon but how much will be costly no one knows yet, lets hope for the best.

Devices to Detect Swine Flue & other Diseases !!

2009-11-20T08:36:00.000-08:00

Most of the countries are now struggling to build such devices that can detect diseases automatically.

Therefore most of the airports are installing such devices that can detect flue, fever and other diseases to make their air travel safe and to protect others from it.
Some of the airports had already installed infrared cameras to detect their passengers suffering from fever, due to this technology a patient of swine flu was detected in Turkey but this method is still doesn’t match high perfection.

In recent days Japanese Government has started GPS system that will allow mobile phone users to know about any kind of infection they have, this system will automatically detect when a person talk on a cell phone.

Cough detector has also been developed that will distinguished between a people clearing his/her throat from the cough of a sick person.

Can Paper Be Stronger than Iron !!

2009-11-09T08:57:00.000-08:00

Now it is going to be almost everything possible what we had thought in past about their impossibility, one can hardly believe that, One day will come when paper become stronger than Iron, but it is true.

At the royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, researchers prepared a special type of nano paper which strong enough, that is bullet proof.

This paper is made of cellulose fibers that are tightly woven; these fibers are one millionth of a millimeter in thickness. These are so closely and tightly engaged that they produce a tight network of even a strong bullet proof paper.
This type of paper is prepared by digesting wood pulp with enzymes and chopping the fibers in to a strong paper.

God knows better what will be the next in the minds of humans.

Recycling Energy from Roads and Vehicles !!

2009-11-02T09:00:00.000-08:00

We haven’t thought that at one time we will also generate electricity from running vehicles.

But now Engineers had developed such a shock absorber that will take advantage of bouncy and unsmooth roads. This observer will convert energy that emerges from road jumps into electricity. This will be sufficient for running the other components of vehicles such as video LCD or to charge the battery.

Recycling Energy from Roads
BMW and Honda are now trying to develop such a devices that will capture the energy from the engine, that exhausts on braking process.
But the most amazing and highly beneficial project that is under process in UK and Israel, is to collect energy from the roads, this energy will comes due the heavy traffic traveling on the road, they will use generators to convert such energy into electricity.

We see thousands of vehicles pass daily on the roads, and if we reach to store that energy that may be used for street lights, road lights and for other purposes also.

It means water is not just a single source of electricity generation, but there are others too but the only thing is to utilize them.

New Hope for Knee Joints Patients !!

2009-11-02T08:52:00.000-08:00

Knee joint pain arrives mostly at the age of 40 to 50, this type of pain arrives when cartilages loses its efficiency due to passage of time and wear out. The main purpose of cartilages are to reduce friction between knee joints, we feel pain when this friction increases.

Lots of efforts are done to produces artificial cartilages to replace the natural that wear out, but the effort was still incomplete.

But now a new research had been done at the Weizmann Institute of Space in Israel and developed low friction joints, all this credit goes to Jacob Klein.

These joints are made of polymer with molecular brushes at its surface. The purposes of these brushes are to attract water molecules which provides sheath as they slide over each other, which automatically reduce friction.

Beef Burgers leads towards Global Warming !!

2009-10-28T09:06:00.000-07:00

We had never ever thought that the food we are consuming in the shape of meat will contribute to global warming.

The meat we take almost daily in any shape between burgers or in meals, contains some components in it that contribute to global warming.

Animal produce methane gas in the process of digestion that leads towards global warming, it is studied that methane is 23 time dangerous than carbon dioxide, because only few ounces of methane is equal to 4 to 5 pounds carbon dioxide which also add to global warming.

Now to researchers are thinking to produce such kind of fodder for animals that contribute less to global warming.

If meat is compared with chicken and potatoes then meat produces 13 time more then chicken and 57 times more then potatoes to global warming.

Latest survey tells that in USA the persons that consume beef daily contribute to such a large green house gas that it is sufficient to drive a car for 1800 miles.

So don’t forget while taking a single bite of beef burgers.

Learning Abilities of Robots, Now same like Children !!

2009-10-24T10:09:00.000-07:00

Robots will now learn same as children learn from their surroundings when they grow up.

In Genova robots are now designed with such abilities that they learn from their surroundings, this practice is going on in an Italian Institute of Technology in Genova.

These robots are toddler in size and their brain is designed in such a way that they learn from their environment same as newly born baby does.

Scientist has named “iCub” to this toddler robot; this robot gives an insight to scientists to understand that how humans learn from their environment. This new robot “iCub” can clasp objects and have the ability to recognize human faces and detect objects. Scientists are now arguing that with the passage of time this toddler “iCub” will speak, catch the ball in mid air and even recognize different voices.

US 125 millions are granted to almost 11 European Universities from European Union, to work together on such iCubs, twenty iCubs are manufactured and sent to various laboratories where they will be trained and tested.

Robots are much important in every aspect that may be potential, industrial or in armies, it is no doubt to say that one day the country with advance robots will be at the top.

Cloning Plants !!

2009-10-03T11:25:00.000-07:00

It is now possible to produce thousands of plants commercially without using seeds.

A leaf is divided into small pieces and placed in a test tube in a chemical medium containing nutrients and growth hormones. After about six to eight weeks shoots start to develop which are cut off and placed in another medium. Once the root has been formed, the plant is transferred to soil in an environment with high humidity, usually green house. When the leaves have been formed, the plants can usually survive in less humid environment.

Plants with certain desirable properties, e.g. color of flowers, size or taste of fruits etc, can be thus multiplied, since the cloned products produced, being genetically identical, will have the same characteristics as the parent.

The procedure works well in the manufacture of orchids, bananas and many other plants and is cost effective because of mass production of plants with desirable traits.

Mending the Heart Problems will become Easy!!

2009-09-27T09:08:00.000-07:00

A heart disease remains the single biggest killer today. Rapid advances in stem cell research in recent years offer new hope for heart patients as they have the potential of generating different types of heart tissues.

A number of heart cell therapy trails are being conducted in USA, Germany, UK Korea and Brazil with stem cells, usually derived from the bone marrow of the patient themselves. Chien and co-workers at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston have found evidence regarding how stems cells may be converted into different types of heart tissues from a pool of multipotent cells.

Stems cells may thus offer a way to treat failing heart in the future.

Genome Sequencing !!

2009-09-15T07:25:00.000-07:00

The first human genome to be fully sequenced cost about 60 million US dollars and was completed in May 2006, although the rough draft was announced in 2003after 13 years of effort.

Due to spectacular advances in sequencing technologies, the sequencing of the entire genome of James Watson was accomplished last year in just 2 months at a cost of one million Us dollars.

Purpose of Sequencing
Machines are under development which may be able to do it in days for under a thousand a dollars. A simpler form of genetic analysis which can cost only a few hundred dollars provides information about point mutation in person's DNA which are linked to Traits and susceptibility to diseases. This may allow us to take precautionary measures before the disease actually occurs.

Preventing Brain Damage !!

2009-09-15T07:12:00.001-07:00

Brain damage that can result from a stroke or heart attack can leave a patient permanently disabled.

Scientist have been grappling with the problem through timely administration of drugs or surgical interventions.

Interestingly it has been discovered that slowly cooling the brain by two to four degrees centigrade (at a rate of one degree per hour) can slow down or possibly prevent the process of brain damage. This is achieved by flow of cold air, use of a cold helmet or administration of a cold spray of perfluorocarbon droplets through the nose.

This process appears to be better than trying to cool the whole body as that can lead to infections and pneumonia.

Invisible Universe !!

2009-09-13T07:34:00.000-07:00

We can see about only four percent of our universe. About 74 percent of it is accounted for by a mysterious force called "dark energy", while another 22 percent is composed of an invisible matter, termed as "dark matter". It is a big puzzle in cosmology and particle physic, to determine what this missing mass composed of.

In 2005, Astronomers at Cardiff University have discovered a galaxy some 50 million light years away which appears to be made up entirely of invisible dark matter.

About 96 percent of our universe is therefore not composed of "normal" visible matter but of invisible dark matter and dark energy. We know very little about these strange and mysterious forces around us. This is therefore a huge unsolved mystery.

Gaint Ice Chunks !!

2009-09-13T07:25:00.000-07:00

In February 2002, 20 pound chunks of ice fell from clear blue skies in Madrid, Spain and crashed through the roof of an industrial ware house. More than 50 such events have been reported in different parts of the world in the last seven years.

According to the astrobiologist, Jesus Martinez-Frias at the centre for astrobiology in Madrid. Climate experts have been predicting extreme weather events such as powerful hurricanes or droughts but no one ever thought that huge chunks of ice could appear suddenly from clear skies, shattering wind shields and destroying roofs of houses and buildings.

Such monster ice chunks called "megacryometeros" can weight up to 200 pounds. They are believe to be formed in the lower atmosphere (troposphere) due to atmospheric turbulence. This results in repeated coating of the ice-crystals as they are thrown in the turbulence and progressively grow into monster sizes.

This is thought to be the direct result of climate change which has resulted in increased humidity and turbulence in the troposphere.

Improvements in Performance of Heart !!

2009-09-13T07:14:00.000-07:00

When a heart is weakened, its ability to deliver oxygen containing blood may be compromised.

An exciting approach that is being investigated to tackle such conditions is to somehow induce the blood to deliver a greater amount of the oxygen that it is carrying. The Nobel Laureate Professor Jean Marie Lehn at the University of Strasbourg, France took mice with damaged hearts and by using a particular chemical compound (myo-inositol trispyro phosphate, ITPP) the blood in these mice was induced to release more oxygen.
Normally hemoglobin can release only about 25 percent of the oxygen, but this chemical results a dramatic improvement in the physical performance of the mice. If the compound was taken dissolved in water, the exercise levels in mice were boosted 35 percent while if given by injection there was 60 percent rise. The substance hold promise for its eventual use in medicine.
In future this chemical will did a lot for our hearts.

Carnivorous Robots Invented !!

2009-09-11T10:50:00.000-07:00

A new invention took place in the world of robotics. James Auger and Jimmy Loizeau at the Royal College of Art London have designed a number of domestic robots that will lure and eat up flies and other small moving insects. They will also benefit from the process by deriving energy from the swallowed insects.
This is because they are powered by an internal microbial fuel cell installed within the robots which run by this process.

The idea of using vermin as fuel was first proposed by a UK based company, Bristol Robotics Lab, who had developed the first fly-powered robot in 2004, an proposed that similar marine robots could be developed which could survive on plankton.

A self-watering Desert Plant !!

2009-09-11T10:45:00.000-07:00

The desert Rhubarb (Rheum palaestinum) found in the Negev desert in Israel has leaves which can reach one meter in diameter, whereas other desert plants have small and spiky leaves. Israel scientists have discovered that it had unique self-watering mechanism that allows this to happen. They claim that this is the first example of self-irrigation in the plant ever found. The waxy leaves of the plant have deep and wide channels resembling a mountainous range that allows the droplets of water to be captured and then guided so that they fall on the soil near the roots of the plant.

Even in light rain, the water that fell near the roots was ten times more than that fell in other areas near the plant, due to this built in harvesting mechanism.

In Future we will see the Buried peoples under the Collapsed Building !!

2009-09-11T10:29:00.000-07:00

Professor Justin Wark and colleagues at the department of Physics in Oxford University have made an interesting discovery. When aluminium was bombarded briefly with powerful soft x-rays lasers, a core electron in every atom of its crystalline structure seems to be displaced, and it becomes completely transparent.

In another related development, scientists working at Imperial College London and University of Neuchatel (Switzerland) have shown that it is possible to have lasers pass through solid objects. They prepared some nano-crystals and when laser was passed through them the nano-crystals become transparent.

This discovery may lead to our ability to see through solid subjects, such as people buried below a collapsed building, and do away with the need of X-ray in medicine.