A “virtual virus” has helped scientists unfold the flu on a CPU, it has been revealed.
By combining experimental data from X-ray crystallography, NMR spectroscopy, cryoelectron microscopy and lipidomics (the study of cellular lipid networks), researchers at the University of Oxford have built a complete model of the outer envelope of influenza A virion for the first time.
Stephen Hawkins has warned the scientists against the idea of calling the aliens and letting them know that we were here.
Scientists have been exploring ways of beaming messages from Earth to aliens in the hope of the ultimate callback are even considering Wikipedia to help them understand human life, but the renowned physicist has disapproved the move, saying that it could lead to catastrophe, the Daily Star reported.
Hawking said that “If aliens visit us, the outcome would be much as when Columbus landed in America, which didn’t turn out well for the Native Americans.”
NASA has selected more than dozen small research satellites that could fit in the palm of your hand to fly in space on future rocket launches.
Called CubeSats, these cube-shaped nanosatellites are small but pack an outsized research punch.
They will enable unique technology demonstrations, education research and science missions and will study topics ranging from how the solar system formed to the demonstration of a new radiation-tolerant computer system, the US space agency said in a statement.
A $340 million sun-observing spacecraft that was initially dreamed up by former US vice president Al Gore is finally poised to launch Sunday after being kept in storage by NASA for years.
The unmanned Deep Space Climate Observatory is scheduled to blast off atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket at 6:10 pm (2310 GMT) from Cape Canaveral, Florida.
DSCOVR`s goal is to help space weather forecasters by collecting data on solar wind and geomagnetic storms that can cause damage to electrical systems on Earth.
Samsung may be the leader in the burgeoning Indian mobile market, but the Korean handset giant is losing ground in one of the world’s largest markets as it faces stiff competition from rivals like Micromax, Karbonn, Lava and Microsoft (Nokia).
According to the latest data from CyberMedia Research (CMR), Samsung is “losing its earlier firm grip” with its share declining to 16.5 percent at the end of December 2014 from 20.3 percent at the beginning of the year.
A new study has examined that older adults, who learn a new mentally demanding skills can improve their cognitive function.
The study conducted at University of Texas approached participants where they were assigned to learn a new skill digital photography, quilting, or both which required active engagement and tapped working memory, long-term memory and other high-level cognitive processes.
If you thought the eye-wearable device Google Glass is dead, think again! The new team at Google Glass wants to “redesign the product from scratch and not release it until it is complete”, says a New York Times report.
Glass is now overseen by Ivy Ross, a jewellery designer who runs Google’s smart-eyewear division and Tony Fadell, a former Apple product executive.
“Early Glass efforts have broken ground and allowed us to learn what’s important to consumers and enterprises alike,” Fadell said in a statement.
The Google Play store for devices like Nexus phones and tablets will now allow users to start a video chat with a salesperson who can answer any question about Chromebooks, Android Wear, or other devices that Google sells directly through the site.
The service, which is built off of Google’s video lesson platform Helpouts, is titled Google Device Experts, reported The Verge.
The assistants however, will not be available for tech support now.
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has captured the rare occurrence of three of Jupiter’s largest moons – Europa, Callisto and Io – racing across the banded face of the gas-giant planet.
These so-called Galilean moons, named after the 17th century scientist Galileo Galilei who discovered them with a telescope, complete orbits around Jupiter with durations ranging from two days to 17 days.
They can commonly be seen transiting the face of Jupiter and casting shadows onto its cloud tops.
A new study has provided a deeper insight into how “sixth sense” in fishes allows them to detect flows of water.
The findings have helped researchers resolve a long-standing mystery about how these aquatic creatures respond to their environment.
It is well known that fish respond to changes in their fluid environment. These include avoiding obstacles, reducing swimming effort by slaloming between vortices, or whirlpools, and tracking changes in water flow left by prey, even without the aid of vision.
The elderly could soon have a non-human companion to beat loneliness and isolation as researchers have developed prototype of a social robot with emotion and the ability to remember and recall.
Working in partnership with their relatives or carers, the robot supports independent living for the elderly, the researchers noted.
The results demonstrated that a social robot can potentially help to prevent isolation and loneliness, offering stimulating activities whilst respecting autonomy and independence, the researchers from University of Hertfordshire in Britain added.
A new study has found that the early terrestrial vertebrates were able to hear 300 million years ago, even when there was no tympanic middle ear development.
The research led by Aarhus University described that lungfish and salamanders can hear, despite of not having an outer ear or tympanic middle ear.
Microsoft is set to bring its digital assistance Cortana to Office.
According to the Verge, the software giant is currently testing a ” Work Assistant” app that’s designed to use Cortana to open, edit, and share documents using voice commands and Cortana.
The report said that the software giant’s initial app is a prototype, but the company plans to integrate Cortana into Office across mobile and desktop platforms soon.
Microsoft may also integrate Cortana on iOS and Android in the future. (ANI)
Scientists who have been running the four-stroke diesel engine of a light pick-up truck on coconut oil for the past one year have approached the union government to commercialise the biofuel.
The scientists are attached to the Kochi-based SCMS Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology Research and Development and the SCMS School of Engineering and Technology.
While the manufacturers of the Tata Ace claim mileage of 16 km to a litre of diesel, the vehicle can run 22.5 km per litre of the biofuel, the scientists say.
India’s premier defence research organisation DRDO is open to co-developing a technology promoted by an Indian scientist who claims he can make planes invisible using pre-Mahabharata sage Bharadwaj’s formulae, a senior agency official said here Friday.
Speaking to IANS on the sidelines of the Bharatiya Vigyan Sammelan here, Satish Kumar, chief controller in-charge of research and development (technology management) at the Defence Research of Development Organisation (DRDO), said the agency was open to any technology which helps save time and cost.
A new sample from a Martian mountain by NASA Curiosity rover hints at water that was more acidic than any evidenced in the rover’s first taste of Mount Sharp, a layered rock record of ancient Martian environments.
The rover used a new, low-percussion-level drilling technique to collect sample powder last week from a rock target called “Mojave 2.”
Curiosity reached the base of Mount Sharp five months ago after two years of examining other sites inside Gale Crater and driving towards the mountain at the crater’s centre.
A report has said that Swiss watchmaker Swatch is set to bring in a new smartwatch in the next two to three months.
The launch is expected to happen alongside the April release window set for Apple Watch’s launch earlier this month, reported The Verge.
The smartwatch is expected to come with “communication” abilities and applications compatible with Windows and Android . The report said that it will also allow users to make mobile payments, although Swiss grocery stores Migros and Coop are the only known partners.
Apple is reportedly holding talks with TV programmers to develop its own over-the-top pay TV service, a report said.
Sources said that the proposed service would include bundles of programming, secured through deals with content providers and will be sold to the consumers directly, rather than a full TV lineup, reported The Verge.
People in charge of TV programming have already seen demonstrations of the service but the talks appear to be in “early stages” with the pricing and release date yet to be finalized.
Apple is reportedly holding talks with TV programmers to develop its own over-the-top pay TV service, a report said.
Sources said that the proposed service would include bundles of programming, secured through deals with content providers and will be sold to the consumers directly, rather than a full TV lineup, reported The Verge.
People in charge of TV programming have already seen demonstrations of the service but the talks appear to be in “early stages” with the pricing and release date yet to be finalized.
A new futuristic hotel with robot staff and other advanced technologies will soon be opening in Japan, it has been revealed.
Huis Ten Bosch, a theme park modeled after the Netherlands in Japan’s Nagasaki Prefecture, has announced plans to open a hotel called Henn-na Hotel, which translates as Strange Hotel, the CNN reported.
According to the park, the first phase of the two-story hotel will open on July 17 with 72 rooms. The second phase will be completed in 2016 with an additional 72 rooms.
Twitter and Google have inked a big deal wherein tweets will be available in Google search results which will benefit both companies.
According to the Verge, Google will have complete access to tweets on the social networking site Twitter.
The deal will make tweet more immediately available outside of Twitter.
The effects of the deal are expected to take the forefront in the first half of this year.
Twitter has declined to comment on the deal as of now. (ANI)
In the upcoming book of the United States President Barack Obama, his chief campaign advisor David Axelrod has revealed the details of a meeting between Steve Jobs and Obama where the President got a sneak peek of Apple’s original iPhone before it was released.
According to the Verge, in Obama’s book “Believer: My Forty Years in Politics”, Alexrod gives a detailed description of Obama’s meeting with Jobs in 2007.
Alexrod writes that after their meeting, Obama said that “If it were legal, I would buy a boatload of Apple stock”.
A new study has recently revealed that Neanderthals disappeared from the Iberian Peninsula around 45,000 years ago, or some 5,000 years before the rest of Europe.
A scientific article published in ‘Nature’ in August 2014 revealed that the Europe an Neanderthals could have disappeared between 41,000 and 39,000 years ago, according to the fossil remains found at sites located from the Black Sea in Russia to the Atlantic coastline of Spain.
Japanese researchers have developed a system for smartphones that alerts epileptics at least 30 seconds before a seizure helping patients take precautions in the nick of time and avoid injuries.
A team from Kyoto University which developed the system is collaborating with Kumamoto University and Tokyo Medical and Dental University to get the device to be commercially produced by 2020, the Nikkei financial publication reported Thursday.
The system uses a small sensor placed close to the collar bone or the heart to detect changes in the heartbeat.
Antarctica has become a laboratory for research on climate change as a result of the impact that global warming is having on some of the continent’s regions and its role in regulating the Earth’s climate.
The effects of climate change are most evident on the Antarctic Peninsula and in the South Shetland Islands, the white continent’s northern tip.