In a major breakthrough, 39-year-old Irish athlete Mark Pollock, who lost sight 16 years ago and had been paralyzed from the waist down for last four years, has regained enough voluntary control…
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Animals, not meteors, were responsible for first mass extinction
A commonly held notion that mass extinction on Earth are a result of regular impacts of meteors from Space has been challenged by a new research that claims that animals are responsible…
Possible reason behind limited number of lions, other top predators explained
A generally held notion of more the prey greater the number of predators has been debunked by a new study that shows why the relation doesn’t hold true because of simple mathematics…
Intel commits $50 million for quantum computing research
Intel has committed $50 million as research funding to QuTech, the quantum institute of TU Delft and TNO, wherein the two will be carrying out intensive and extensive research on quantum computing….
LEDs set to get cheaper, efficient
One of the biggest hurdles in adoption of LED lighting is the cost involved and the inability of energy savings to offset these high costs. This is about to change as a…
Thoth’s space elevator: The idea spawned in a remote forest in Eastern Ontario
Thoth Technology Inc. – a Canada based company – was recently awarded a patent for an innovative space elevator and according to the CEO and CTO of the company it all started…
Researchers find efficient way to produce hydrogen fuel from water and light
Researchers at Michigan Technological University have mimicked the process of photosynthesis to produce hydrogen fuel using water and light and that too with high efficiency. In a study published in the Journal…
DNA won’t replace hard drives anytime soon
We recently reported on a new development wherein researchers were able to successfully encode data onto DNA, simulate 2000 years of storage and then decode it off the DNA without any errors….
DNA can efficiently store data for thousands of years
Researchers have managed to store data onto DNA and successfully read it off without errors, suggesting that this particular technology not only holds a lot of potential for mass storage but also…
Canadian company granted patent for a space elevator
Science fiction and cartoons have long fantasized people travelling into space using elevators many times the height of Mount Everest and it seems that at least one company is serious about making…
Mother robot builds children without human intervention
Researchers have designed and built a robot capable of building its own children without any human intervention. The robot can test which one does best; and then use the results to inform…
In China, air pollution kills 4,000 people everyday
A new study has show how air pollution is wreaking havoc in China by claiming a whopping 1.6 million lives – an equivalent of 4,000 deaths per day. The report by Berkeley…
Warblr app can automatically recognise birds by their song
A machine learning technology developed and launched by Queen Mary University London’s Dan Stowell and his business partner Florence Wilkinson is able to identify birds by their tweets. The duo, after developing…
New optical chip is a major leap in the quest for quantum computer
Scientists may have created one of the most important devices that the quantum computing world needed – an optical reprogrammable chip – capable of processing photons in an infinite number of ways….
Canada one step closer to banning microbeads
The Canadian government is one step closer to banning microbeads n personal care products – a step the government says is in the direction of continuing to protect Canadian families and the…