Bioplastics made from protein sources such as albumin or egg white and whey show significant anti-bacterial properties, says a new study.
The findings may eventually lead to their use in plastics used in medical applications such as wound healing dressings, sutures, catheter tubes and drug delivery.
The bioplastic materials could also be used for food packaging, said the study published online in the Journal of Applied Polymer Science.
A UFO conspiracy theorist Clark McClelland who had claimed to be a NASA veteran, has said that he saw a nine-foot alien on the space shuttle.
McClelland has maintained the truth of his story, despite being dismissed by skeptics, as ‘delusional’ and never having worked with NASA, the Mirror reported.
Today’s “Facebook Generation” is happier and healthier than teenagers a decade ago, finds a new study.
Adolescence is a crucial stage in life when you lay the foundation for adulthood.
The findings, published online by the European Journal of Public Health, claimed a growing proportion of 11 to 15-year-olds, dubbed the “Facebook Generation”, are less likely than their predecessors to do drugs, drink alcohol, smoke cigarettes and be bullied.
A new study has revealed that young male monkeys prefer to hang around with their dads, may be in order to prepare for the itinerant lifestyle they are forced to live later in life.
When male rhesus macaques reach a certain stage in life, they prefer to hang around with their dads, and their dads with them, the BBBC reported.
Scientists knew that primates often form stronger bonds between one sex over the other. Females, for example, often form closer ties with one another than males.
The Swedish car manufacturer Volvo and UK design firm Grey London have partnered with Albedo100 to come up with a reflective spray-paint to make cycling safer at night.
The LifePaint, which is technically not paint, is a washable material that lasts about 10 days after application and is completely invisible until it’s hit by the glare of a car’s headlights after which it glows, the Verge reported.
Microsoft has announced a second round of devices that will be able to run the latest builds of Windows 10 wherein the list has expanded considerably.
According to the Verge, Microsoft opened up its Windows 10 Technical Preview to Windows Phone users last month, but only a scant few Lumia devices were supported.
However, there will be a few devices still where the preview will not be available including the Lumia 930 and HTC Windows Phone devices.
he indigenously designed Rs.245 crore multi-object tracking radar (MOTR) is ready to undergo trials, said a senior space scientist here on Saturday.
“The multi-object tracking radar has been installed. It has to undergo trials. Once the trials are satisfactory then it will be ready for use,” M.Y.S. Prasad, director, Satish Dhawan Space Centre, told reporters.
According to him, the radar can track around 10 objects simultaneously.
He said the radar can track space debris so that a satellite’s direction could be altered to avoid collision.
India is set to operationalise its own navigational system with the succesful launch of IRNSS-1D, the fourth in the series of seven navigational satellites, onboard PSLV-C27 from here today.
At the end of the 59.5 hour countdown, PSLV-C27, the time-tested launch vehicle of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), lifted off from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre here at 5.19 pm and injected the satellite into orbit about 21 minutes later.
India successfully put its fourth navigation satellite into orbit in copy book style on Saturday, bringing the country a step closer to having its own satellite navigation system.
Exactly at 5.19 p.m., the rocket – the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV-C27) standing around 44 metres tall and weighing around 320 tonnes – tore into the clear blue evening sky with fierce orange flames at its tail.
The expendable rocket had a single but important luggage, the 1,425 kg IRNSS-1D.
What do butterflies, spiders and lobsters have in common? They are all surviving relatives of a newly-identified prehistoric species called Yawunik kootenayi.
An international team of palaeontologists recently found fossil remains of Yawunik at the Marble Canyon site in British Columbia’s Kootenay National Park.
Researchers said Yawunik was a marine creature with two pairs of eyes and prominent grasping appendages that lived as much as 508 million years ago – more than 250 million years before the first dinosaur.
Short-video sharing app Vine has rolled out support for high-definition videos on iOS operating system and will soon be available on Android as well.
According to the Verge, Vine’s blog post said that it is bumping the resolution of each video up from 480p to 720p.
However, the videos will appear somewhat compressed so they can be quickly loaded to mobiles.
On iOS operating system, the new Vines will immediately start uploading in high definition while on Android , the feature will be available “soon”. (ANI)
The MESSENGER spacecraft completed its 4,000th orbit of Mercury on March 25 and the lowest point in its orbit continues to move closer to the planet than ever before.
The orbital phase of the MESSENGER mission, which was originally designed to collect data for one Earth year, just completed its fourth year of operation around Mercury. The mission has received a final extension to allow scientists to gather specific low-altitude data over an additional several weeks.
Apple CEO Tim Cook has said that he is “deeply disappointed” by the new law passed in the US state of Indiana which could allow companies to discriminate against gay and lesbian customers.
According to BBC, Governor Mike Pence signed a bill on Thursday that stops the state from restricting a person’s ability to exercise their religion.
Cook said in a tweet that his company Apple was open for everyone.
The billionaire founder and CEO of Chinese internet video site Leshi TV Jia Yueting has compared Apple to the Nazis in a new poster that teases the launch of the company’s new smartphone wherein the image shows a cartoon of Adolf Hitler wearing a red armband with the Apple logo in place of the Nazi swastika.
The poster argues that Apple is stifling innovation and harming the interests of users through its approach to smartphones, reported the Verge.
The text across the top of the poster compares the attributes of the Android and iOS ecosystems.
Google is teaming up with Johnson & Johnson to build robots that can help surgeons in the operating room.
The alliance announced this week dovetails with two of Google’s initiatives beyond its main business of Internet search and advertising. Google has been investing in medical research aimed at extending lives and in robotic technology that can free up humans to do other things.
The companies will try to engineer robotic technology that will reduce patient trauma and accelerate post-surgery healing.
Fitness trackers of all kinds have become extremely popular, helping people to manage their physical activity and calorie intake and stay in shape. However, such devices also process important personal data about their owners and it is important to keep it secure.
Kaspersky Lab researcher Roman Unuchek has examined how a number of fitness wristbands interact with a smartphone and discovered some surprising results.
Honeybees use different sets of genes, regulated by two distinct mechanisms, to fight off viruses, bacteria and gut parasites, new research reveals.
The findings may help scientists develop honeybee treatments that are tailored to specific types of infections.
“Our results indicate that different sets of genes are used in immune responses to viruses versus other pathogens, and these anti-viral genes are regulated by two very distinct processes – expression and DNA methylation,” said David Galbraith from the Pennsylvania State University.
Google has reportedly agreed to pay its new CFO, Ruth Porat, about 70 million dollars in total compensation by 2019.
An SEC filing revealed on Thursday that the package would include a five million dollar signing bonus, a 25 million dollar new hire grant that begins vesting at the end of this year and a 40 million dollar biennial grant beginning in 2016, reported Mashable.
Her base salary at Google would be 650,000 dollars, the filing disclosed.
Porat will also get 7,500 dollars to relocate to Google’s Mountain View headquarters.
HOYA Corporation, a diversified, multinational company and leading supplier of innovative and indispensable high-tech and healthcare products, announced that it has closed an investment financing in Salutaris Medical Devices, Inc.
SalutarisMD will use the funding to further its growth strategy in developing its patented medical device designed for minimally invasive therapy of wet age-related macular degeneration.
Wet AMD is a leading cause of vision loss and blindness that primarily affects older adults.
Scientists have found evidence that contradicts the dominant theory of our evolution – that our genus, Homo, evolved from small bodied early humans to become the taller, heavier and longer legged Homo erectus that was able to migrate beyond Africa and colonise Eurasia.
The new study, published in the Journal of Human Evolution, says the main increase in body size occurred tens of thousands of years after Homo erectus left Africa.
Basically every textbook on human evolution gives the perspective that one lineage of humans evolved larger bodies before spreading beyond Africa.
On the second day of its F8 conference at Fort Mason in San Francisco, Facebook has reportedly announced its plan to use a drone to beam the Internet down to billions of people around the world.
Codenamed Aquila, the drone had wingspan comparable to a Boeing 767 aircraft but uses lightweight materials that allow it to measure less than a car, reported TechCrunch.
A new study has revealed that bats avoid collisions by following certain set of “traffic rules” laid down by them while trawling for food at high speed.
Dr Marc Holderied of Bristol’s School of Biological Sciences studied pairs of Daubenton’s bats (Myotis daubentonii) foraging low over water for stranded insects at a site near the village of Barrow Gurney in Somerset, UK.
Apple chief executive Tim Cook has announced his decision to give away his estimated 785 million dollar fortune to charity, after paying for his 10-year-old nephew’s college education.
Commenting on his decision, Cook said, “You want to be the pebble in the pond that creates the ripples for change,” reported Stuff.co.nz.
Fortune estimated Cook’s net worth, based on his holdings of Apple stock, at about 120 million dollars. He also holds restricted stock worth 665 million dollars, if it were to be fully vested.
A new study has recently revealed that Japan’s quake-tsunami disaster in 2011 triggered global warming and ozone loss , as it released tons of harmful chemical in the atmosphere.
It was found that the thousands of buildings destroyed and damaged during the 9.0 magnitude earthquake and tsunami that struck Japan four years ago released 6,600 metric tons (7,275 U.S. tons) of gases stored in insulation, appliances and other equipment into the atmosphere.
Emissions of these chemicals, called halocarbons, increased by 21 percent to 91 percent over typical levels.
Apple’s iPhone fans may receive three surprises at once this year as reports suggest that the firm is planning on unveiling three new models of the iPhone in September.
Along with the expected upgrades with the iPhone 6S and iPhone 6S Plus, reports said that users may expect an iPhone 6C, reported News.com.au.
The new device is expected to come with a 4-inch (10.1cm) screen, making it significantly smaller than the 4.7-inch (11.9cm) iPhone 6 and 5.5-inch (14cm) iPhone 6. It will be powered by the A8 chip while the two flagship phones will use a more powerful A9 chip. (ANI)