Science & Technology
Australia lifts Samsung Galaxy Tab sales ban
High Court of Australia has decided to lift the ban on the sale of Samsung's tablet, Galaxy Tab, in the country in time for...
First signs of Higgs boson, the God particle, detected by CERN scientists
The first signs of the ultra-elusive Higgs boson particle have been detected by teams working at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Switzerland. Existence of...
Mythbusters shot wrong a cannonball through a house and a van
The Mythbusters busted up a California neighbourhood yesterday evening when an errant cannonball crashed through a minivan and a house. The Mythbusters crew had themselves...
How to analyze and deal with children’s temper tantrums
Scientists have now revealed that children’s temper tantrums can be analyzed, as having a pattern and rhythm of their own that, when understood, may...
How eating too much cake makes you hairy and how to tackle the excess body hair
Over 50% of women are concerned about excess body hair says a report published by market research company Mintel last month. In the online survey...
Sitting down for too long may give you a bigger bottom. An Isreali research.
Israeli scientists warn that sitting down for too long may give you a big bottom. Not just eating junk food put your bottom at risk...
Enmac, the Islamic smartphone that comes with the Koran already downloaded
Enmac is an Islamic smartphone that has been launched with a compass pointing permanently to Mecca and the Koran already downloaded. Indian inventors of the...
How Diet Coke and low-calorie substitutes may actually make your body to gain weight
Scientists claim that low-calorie substitutes in food and drink may actually make fool your body into gaining weight. An American research team from Purdue University...
Woolly mammoth could be cloned within 5 years from bone marrow
Russian and Japanese scientists believe it may be possible to clone a woolly mammoth within five years after finding well-preserved bone marrow in a...
Vitabiotics Pregnacare-Conception, a 60 cents pill could double the chance of getting pregnant?
Vitabiotics Pregnacare-Conception, a 60 cents multi-vitamin pill could more than double a woman’s chance of having a baby, according to a study carried out at...
“Cloned” Facebook accounts can fool anyone into accepting a fake friend
Nelson Novaes Neto, a Brazilian security expert has worked out a way to “friend” anyone using social network Facebook. Nelson Novaes Neto showed at the...
Mark Moffett spent two days tracking down world’s heaviest insect, giant weta
Mark Moffett, a nature-lover has revealed how he spent two days tracking down a giant insect, weta, on a remote New Zealand island –...
The “miracle” cure of type 2 diabetes is simply a low-calorie diet
A study of Leiden University Medical Centre in the Netherlands shows that type 2 diabetes could be reversed in just 4 months by simply following...
Atos abolishes e-mails, because they are a waste of time
Atos, one of the largest information technology companies in the world decided to abolish e-mails, because it says 90% of them are a waste...
Prof. Hany Farid and Eric Kee created a computer programme to highlight the differences between a natural and photoshopped picture
There is no secret that the fashion world uses a bit of photo-trickery to ensure models look their best. Any fashion magazine is full of...
Foxglove drug could stop the spread of breast cancer. A Johns Hopkins reaserch.
One of the most common flowering plants, foxglove, could soon be used to stop the spread of breast cancer, say scientists at Johns Hopkins...
NASA launched Curiosity to look for possible origins of life on Mars
Curiosity, the world's biggest extraterrestrial explorer has been launched today on a 354 million mile journey to Mars that hopes to discover whether the...
Google is dropping seven more products
Google has announced that it is shutting seven more products in an effort to simplify its range of services. Among the seven services are Google...
iPhone 5 will be released in 2012 and will have a 4 in screen
While iPhone 4S is basically a remodel of 2010 iPhone 4, it is claimed that next year's iPhone 5 will be radically redrawn and...
ESA picked up a signal from Phobos-Grunt, Russia’s troubled Mars mission
The European Space Agency (ESA) says it has finally contacted Phobos-Grunt, Russia's troubled Mars mission. ESA reports that its tracking station in Perth, Australia, picked...
Apple’s biggest store in the world will be opened in NY Grand Central Station
Apple is opening its next New York City store today - which is believed to be the tech giant's biggest store in the world...
FDA pulls approval of the metastatic breast cancer indication for Avastin
Food and Drug Administration has rescinded approval of Genentech' breast cancer drug, Avastin, saying it is not effective enough to justify the risks of...
CERN scientists broke the speed of light for the second time
Physicists from CERN, Swiss, ran again the test that had proved the theory of relativity was wrong – and broke the speed of light...
Wiki Conference India 2011: more than 700 people gathered at Mumbai University campus
More than seven hundreds people are gathering in Mumbai University campus for India's first Wikipedia conference. Wikipedia Conference 2011 is a three-day event, from November...
Anti-ageing secret could lie with roundworms. A Hillblom Center for the Biology of Aging research.
New research from Hillblom Center for the Biology of Aging, San Francisco, claims the secret to anti-ageing could lie with roundworms. Biochemist Cynthia Kenyon and...
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