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London: Researchers have developed a new application which may help physically impaired persons write songs and surf internet as well as write emails — all with the power of their mind. Using the new brain-computer interface application, developed by Gernot Muller-Putz, scientist at Austria’s Graz University of Technology (TU Graz), people can compose music and […]

New York: Nasa’s robotic spacecraft Cassini that has been orbiting Saturn for 13 years is set for a final dive towards the planet and burn up in its atmosphere in a “grand finale” after it flies past Titan, Saturn’s largest moon, on September 15. Cassini’s imaging cameras will take their last look around the Saturn […]

Washington: Even as Hurricane Harvey left Texas bruised and Hurricane Irma began lashing Florida, NASA scientists have explained in a blog how hurricanes form and what steps the US space agency has taken to study the most violent storms on Earth. People call these storms by other names, such as typhoons or cyclones, depending on […]

Chandigarh: Migratory birds from far away countries have started arriving at Sukhna Wildlife Sanctuary in the district on their annual sojourn. Nearly 3,000 migratory birds have already arrived and the number is expected to reach 15,000 by January next year, forest officials said. The birds come here from Siberia, China, Afghanistan and the Himalayan region […]

New Delhi: In a first, Cardiological Society of India — a non-profit organisation — on Saturday announced the launch of an app that can help people suffering from heart disease with rapid and accurate information about the nearest health care centres. The app — named “Heart Attack” — would guide patients with real time information […]

New Delhi: Over 2.5 lakh people in India have registered to buy Samsung Galaxy Note 8 device which will be launched in the country on September 12 — the same day when Apple would unveil its next big device in the US — which may be iPhone 8. Nearly 1.5 lakh people have registered on […]

Washington: As NASA’s asteroid-bound spacecraft OSIRIS-REx approaches Earth for its September 22 gravity assist, a ground-based telescope has captured images of the spacecraft. This is the first Earth-based view of OSIRIS-REx since its launch on September 8, 2016, NASA said on Friday. The images were taken on September 2, by the Large Binocular Telescope Observatory […]

New Delhi: Asish Mohandas, a product design student of IIT-Kanpur, has won the India James Dyson Award 2017 — an international design competition — for his innovative product that will help in the efficient transfer of patients from one place to the other without causing them any pain. The product — named as “MAATTAM” a […]

Chennai: The Indian space agency is strongly suspecting the failure of pyro elements for the non-separation of the heat shield of its rocket Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle’s (PSLV) XL variant on Aug 31, said a senior official. As a result of the heat shield not separating the 1,425 kg navigation satellite IRNSS-1H got stuck inside it […]

London: In the early Bronze Age nearly 4,000 years ago, European women travelled far from their home villages to start their families, bringing with them new cultural objects and ideas, while men usually remained in the region of their birth, a research has showed. The findings, which shed light on the importance of female mobility for […]

London: Complementing its global 5G radio offering, tele-communications service provider Ericsson on Tuesday launched a new radio product ‘AIR 3246’. AIR 3246 is the company’s first 5G New Radio (NR) for frequency division duplex (FDD) and supports 4G/LTE. The product will enable operators to bring 5G to subscribers using present mid-band spectrum and boost capacity in […]

London: In a finding that could challenge the widely accepted theories of human evolution, researchers have discovered 5.7 million years old human-like footprints on an island in Greece. The new footprints from Trachilos in western Crete, described in the journal Proceedings of the Geologists’ Association, could take the trail of early human evolution beyond Africa. Earlier […]

Hyderabad: Examining what climatic factors help spread dengue in India, researchers have found that a rise in temperature from 17 to 30 degrees Celsius can increase transmission of the mosquito-borne disease fourfold. However, a further increase in temperature beyond 35 degrees Celsius is detrimental to the mosquito survival, showed the findings published in the journal […]

Sundarbans (WB): Battling climate change, hundreds of women from all over the fragile islands of Sundarbans have now turned into crusaders by guarding their hamlets with mangrove belts. Their husbands had once cleared these mangroves for firewood but now they realise that only the mangroves can act as sentinels against floods and cyclonic storms, the […]

Washington: Researchers have established a new approach to treat children born with 'half a heart' due to hypoplastic left heart syndrome (HLHS). The new strategy called 'staged left ventricle recruitment' (SLVR) was developed by researchers from the Boston Children's Hospital in US. It uses the existing standard single-ventricle treatment for HLHS and additional procedures to […]