Scientists have identified a potential new drug target for treating lung cancer.
In a new study by University of Kentucky Markey Cancer Center researchers have suggested that targeting a key enzyme and its associated metabolic programming may lead to novel drug development to treat the disease.
A new smartphone app, named ‘Am I going down?’ has recently been developed that can calculate the odds of people’s plane crashing.
According to the CNN, Nic Johns from Vanilla Pixel said that it was inspired by his co-founder and wife, Julie, who was chronically afraid of flying, so the app was actually just meant to reassure the nervous flyers, News24.com reported.
Using real flight statistics to analyse flight safety, the app basically serves as a way of proving that the chances of people being involved in a plane crash are highly unlikely.
Neuroscientists have identified neurons that trigger our sense of thirst and the ones that turn it off.
The findings could lead to new therapies for dehydration and excessive thirst.
For years, researchers have suspected that thirst is regulated by neurons in the subfornical organ (SFO) in the hypothalamus.
But it has been difficult to pinpoint the exact neurons involved.
WikiLeaks has threatened legal action against Google and the US government after the tech giant revealed its staffers’ Gmail contents to US law enforcement .
According to The Guardian, the targets of the investigation were not notified until two and a half years after secret search warrants were issued and served by the FBI, legal representatives for WikiLeaks said in a press conference on Monday.
In a new study, scientists have identified the ‘switch’ or neurons in brain, that’s responsible for switching thirst on or off.
A team of neuroscientists from Columbia University Medical Center hypothesized that there are at least two types of neurons in the subfornical organ (SFO), in the hypothalamus including ones that drive thirst and others that suppress it. “Those electrostimulation experiments were probably activating both types of neurons at once, so they were bound to get conflicting results,” said lead author Yuki Oka, PhD.
A team of chemists have figured out how to unboil egg whites which could ultimately reduce costs for cancer treatments, food production and other segments of the 160 billion dollars global biotechnology industry.
The research was conducted by University Of California (UCI) and Australian chemists.
Your genes and environment contribute to the link between you drinking alone, and under peer pressure.
Alcohol use typically begins during adolescence, within social contexts, and is often correlated with the drinking of one’s peers. A new study of how a person’s drinking is related to the alcohol use of their peers from early adolescence through to early adulthood has found that both genetic and environmental factors contribute to the correlation between one’s own drinking and peer drinking.
Google paid tribute to 66th Republic Day with a special doodle done up as a tableau, showcasing the stretch of the ceremonial boulevard from Raisina Hill to India Gate, the centrepiece of the traditional parade.
The doodle shows a tableau rolling down the Rajpath with people in traditional Indian dresses waving to the crowd. The word ‘Google’ is embossed on its side matching with the colours of the majestic buildings on the two ends.
A new robot has recently been developed that help take care of people with dementia by recognizing their emotions.
At Nishi-Koigakubo Ninjin Home, a special elderly nursing home in western Tokyo, elderly dementia patients recently spent time with Pepper, a humanoid robot with artificial intelligence being developed by SoftBank Mobile, Stuff.co.nz reported.
Said to be the world’s first robot designed to serve people by recognizing their emotions, Pepper is set to retail for 198,000 yen on the consumer market in February.
Using ice-penetrating radar data, NASA scientists have built the first-ever comprehensive map of layers deep inside the Greenland ice sheet.
This new map, prepared on the basis of data collected by NASA’s Operation IceBridge and earlier airborne campaigns, allows scientists to determine the age of large swaths of Greenland’s ice.
“This new, huge data volume records how the ice sheet evolved and how it’s flowing today,” said Joe MacGregor, glaciologist at the University of Texas at Austin and the study’s lead author.
Among the fastest growing tablet markets in the world, India is expected to see over 40 million users of the smart device this year, although the popularity of phablets may restrict that growth, research firm eMarketer said.
Phablets are devices with screen size in the range of 5-7 inches.
The firm estimates the number of tablet users in one of the world’s largest Internet market to grow by 24.8 percent in 2015 to touch 40.4 million.
The figure includes all individuals who use a tablet at least monthly this year, whether they own their own or not, it added.
Senior nuclear scientist M.R.Srinivasan, welcoming the agreement reached between India and the US in the nuclear power field Sunday, said the challenge now is on discussions on the cost of the plants to be imported from the US.
Onn the day when India and the US achieved a “breakthrough” to the logjam to allow their 2008 civil nuclear deal move forward, Srinivasan, who had negotiated on behalf of India with Russia for supply of reactors for Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project (KNPP), was named as one of the Padma Vibushan awardees.
Moms-to-be, take note! A designer in the US has developed smart maternity clothes that track the health of pregnant women and also adjust to a growing bump.
The clothes, designed by Blake Uretsky, a fashion student at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, have conductive
silver fibres woven into the fabric.
The clothes include blouses, trousers, skirts and even an evening gown. The clothing comes in neutral colours and
adjusts to a growing bump.
Researchers at the University of Brasilia (UnB) and Brazil’s state-owned agriculture and livestock research company Embrapa have discovered a protein in coffee with effects similar to morphine.
Embrapa’s genetics and biotechnology resources division and the UnB successfully “identified previously unknown fragments of protein — peptides — in coffee that have an effect similar to morphine, in other words they have an analgesic and sedative activity,” a statement from Embrapa said Saturday.
Here comes an ultimate app that not only alerts you about the weather but also entertains you with one-liners.
The Funny Or Die comedy site, backed by American comedian, actor, producer, and writer Will Ferrell, has launched the “Funny Or Die” weather app for iOS devices.
“Safe, reliable weather forecasting can add some stability to the uncertain world,” Dick Glover, CEO of Funny Or Die was quoted as saying.
The free app features real weather information in a pleasingly simple and attractive design, CNET reported.
Visitors to the 39th International Kolkata Book Fair, that begins Jan 28, now have assistance at their finger tips, courtesy a mobile app providing all the relevant details about the fest.
The Android app has been developed by private power utility company CESC.
“The app can be accessed from a mobile phone or a tablet and will offer the route maps from one point of the fair to the desired book stall. One can also locate utility areas like the food court, restrooms, administrative buildings etc. using the app,” Abhijit Ghosh of the CESC told media persons Saturday.
NASA has revealed that it is working on a small helicopter that could fly ahead of future Mars rovers to improve surveillance and navigation abilities on the alien planet.
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory has proposed the idea of Mars Helicopter, an autonomous drone that could triple the distances that Mars rovers can drive in a Martian day, as the alien surface is uneven, and ridges and valleys make navigating the terrain difficult, the Verge reported.
Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt has predicted that the internet as we know today will disappear in the future.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, he made the comment at the end of a panel at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland after he was asked for his prediction on the future of the web.
He said, “There will be so many IP addresses…so many devices, sensors, things that you are wearing, things that you are interacting with that you won’t even sense it.”
He explained that Internet will be part of one’s presence all the time.
Microsoft is integrating Skype into its Windows 10 that will allow users to chat to Skype contacts or initiate video and audio calls.
According to the Verge, the Windows upcoming version with Skype will look like Apple’s iMessage service and it brings back the built-in Messaging app from Windows 8 that Microsoft had killed with the Windows 8.1 update.
All Skype conversations through the Windows 10 will be synced between PCs, tablets, and phones.
A relatively large asteroid, designated 2004 BL86, is going to fly by Earth at a very safe distance of 745,000 miles (1.2 million km).
This interplanetary visitor is roughly a third of a mile across and is the largest known space rock predicted to come this close to us until 2027 as by comparison, most near-Earth asteroids have diameters no larger than 50 to 100 feet.
Because it’s relatively large, 2004 BL86 will brighten rapidly as it approaches Earth and astronomers predict it will become about 9th magnitude for several hours as it passes closest to us.
The first canister-based trial of the 5,000 km-plus nuclear capable Agni-V long range ballistic missile is likely to take place on January 31.
Incidentally, DRDO chief Avinash Chander, who is often referred to as the ‘Agni Man’ for developing the Agni series of missiles, will demit office on the same day after his contract as DRDO chief has been terminated by the government.
The rocket will be launched from a mobile vehicle system, sources said adding that pre-mission activities were in full swing at Wheeler Island off the Odisha coast.
NASA has teamed up with Microsoft to develop a new software that will enable scientists to work on Mars virtually using a wearable technology.
Developed by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the software called OnSight will give scientists a means to plan and, along with the Mars Curiosity rover, conduct science operations on the Red Planet.
“OnSight gives our rover scientists the ability to walk around and explore Mars right from their offices,” said Dave Lavery, programme executive for the Mars Science Laboratory mission at NASA Headquarters in Washington.
A new study has recently revealed that asteroid impact didn’t cause vast global firestorms that wiped out the dinosaurs.
A team of researchers from the University of Exeter, University of Edinburgh and Imperial College London recreated the immense energy released from an extra-terrestrial collision with Earth that occurred around the time that dinosaurs became extinct.
They found that the intense but short-lived heat near the impact site could not have ignited live plants, challenging the idea that the impact led to global firestorms.
A new survey has examined that Facebook is now considered as a third of all divorce cases as it provides evidence of infidelity and new relationships unwittingly.
A survey of legal firms’ caseloads revealed the social network is increasingly relied upon as proof of inappropriate behaviour, the Mirror reported.
Managing partner Lyn Ayrton said that social media provides an ongoing log of their lives and the sharing of written posts and pictures, often with geo-tagging, provides a record of activities that can be used in a court case.
A new study has revealed that malaria-spreading mosquitoes require minute changes in concentrations of exhaled carbon dioxide to know whether you are at home or not, which then triggers them to land on human skin.
Females of the malaria-spreading mosquito tend to obtain their blood meals within human dwellings and this mosquito, Anopheles gambiae, spends much of its adult life indoors where it is constantly exposed to human odor from used clothing, bedding and etc. and even when people are absent.