A new study has revealed that whole plant therapy shows promise to beat malaria parasites’ drug resistance.
University of Massachusetts Amherst microbiologist Stephen Rich and his research team said that the new treatment is based on a use of the whole plant (WP) Artemesia annua, from which the current pharmaceutical drug artemisinin (AN) is extracted.
Microsoft has launched a new phone Nokia 215, its cheapest handset with internet processor so far, with which the company hopes to increase its market in Asia, the Middle East and Africa.
According to the Independent, the phone is priced at 29 dollars and provides an Opera Mini Browser and Facebook Messenger built in.
The phone can also run Twitter along with some other applications.
Nokia 215 is a low-spec phone that has a 320 x 240 pixels display, 0.3 megapixel camera, a torch and a radio as its main features.
Global shipments of devices, including PCs, tablets and mobile phones, are expected to grow 3.9 per cent to 2.5 billion units this year, research firm Gartner said today.
The number of devices shipped globally is expected to grow from 2.37 billion in 2014 to about 2.5 billion this year and further to 2.57 billion in 2016, Gartner said in a statement.
According to its estimates, worldwide tablet sales will reach 233 million units in 2015, an 8 per cent increase from 2014 as demand for tablets continues to be slow this year.
Top space scientists of various research organisations, including those from the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) gathered at the ongoing 102nd Indian Science Congress held here today to deliberate on space science and technology.
At a symposium on space and space technology, Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) Project Director S Arunan, shared the success story of ‘Mangalyaan’, with the participants.
He said that the Mars Orbiter is the first Indian spacecraft to successfully survive the Van Allen radiation belts.
To bring some relief to the people in the winters, Mumbai-based Pantheon PharmChem launched WARMEE, an innovative handy self-heating pouch, a company statement said here Monday.
Priced at Rs.30 for the smaller pack and Rs.50 for the regular pack, the pouch works as an inexpensive method to stay away from the cold.
US researchers are looking into the possibility of using nuclear weapons to protect Earth from the threat of incoming asteroids.
Scientists at Los Alamos, the US government’s atomic weapons research centre in New Mexico, say that the threat of an asteroid impact is far greater than had been realised and research was required to work out the best way to destroy or deflect them.
NASA’s Mercury-orbiting MESSENGER spacecraft, which was due to end its four-year mission with a suicidal plunge into the innermost planet in March, will attempt a reboost to get bonus time for studying the planet, it has been reported.
Engineers estimate its altitude will be just 15 miles above the surface on Jan 21. But on that day, despite its empty gas tan, MESSENGER , an acronym for Mercury Surface, Space Environment, Geochemistry and Ranging will attempt a reboost, Discovery News reported.
Teenagers’ love for technology is the reason behind addition to it later in their lives.
While over 80 percent of people admitted that they struggled to give up habits such using social media for a month, texting would be the hardest to stop followed by social networking, junk food and booze, the Mirror reported.
According to a study of teenagers aged between 12 and 18, on an average, a teenager checks social media 11 times a day, sends 17 text messages and spends 62 pounds a month on technology, gambling, junk food and alcohol.
A new relaxed fit space sweatsuit, named Apollo 11 sweatsuit, has been recently developed that will help people feel like an astronaut .
Comfy cosmonaut cosplay is easy with this relaxed fit space sweatsuit complete with drawstring pants and a Neil Armstrong name tag, CNet reported.
A new software has predicted MRSA’s response to new drug before it is tested on patients.
Researchers at Duke University used software they developed to predict a constantly-evolving infectious bacterium’s countermoves to one of these new drugs ahead of time, before the drug is even tested on patients.
Co-author Bruce Donald, a professor of computer science and biochemistry at Duke, said that this gives them a window into the future to see what bacteria will do to evade drugs that they design before a drug is deployed.
Robots are now learning cooking through YouTube videos, it has been revealed.
The University of Maryland has been using the “deep learning” technique to teach robots how to cook. The researchers at the university gathered data from 88 YouTube cooking videos and turned it into cooking commands the robot can execute, New York Daily News reported.
Although humanoid cooks are not new, deep learning can increase their use and prominence. Several restaurant kitchens around the world have already started to use humanoid cooks.
Chevrolet has announced a new feature on certain 2016 model year that would be able to proactively predict when certain parts are prone to failure using ” proprietary algorithms”.
According to the Verge, people will be able to potentially get the car into a dealership with the new feature before they have an actual problem on the road.
Right now there are only three parts being covered under the system the battery, the starter motor and the fuel pump.
However, the company plans to add more parts into the program in future vehicles.
A new research has shed light on the power of mental visualization in maintaining real-life muscle.
Researchers at the Ohio Musculoskeletal and Neurological Institute (OMNI) at Ohio University have found that the mind is critical in maintaining muscle strength following a prolonged period of immobilization and that mental imagery may be key in reducing the associated muscle loss.
A group of Czech archaeologists has unearthed the tomb of an unknown queen in Egypt, believed to have been the wife of Pharaoh Neferefre who ruled 4,500 years ago.
The tomb was discovered in Abu Sir, an Old Kingdom necropolis southwest of Cairo where there are several pyramids dedicated to pharaohs of the Fifth Dynasty, including Neferefre, Al Jazeera reported Monday.
The name of his wife had not been known before the find, Antiquities Minister Mamdouh al-Damaty said in a statement.
A new “driver assessment” program has been launched that can evaluate the driving behaviour of people and ultimately can help them get discounted insurance rates for driving well.
General Motors’ OnStar division has provided the system in cars that will track how well drivers drive; hard braking, hard acceleration, and so on and offer detailed feedback after collecting 90 days’ worth of data, the Verge reported.
Xiaomi which clocked 60 million sales in 2014 has reportedly unveiled its newest entry-level phone, the Redmi 2.
The new device shares most of the features with the original model like, the 4.7-inch screen and the 1280 x 720 display however, it also sports a few welcomed changes from its antecedent including, a 64-bit Qualcomm 410 quad-core processor and a dual 4G SIM support too, reported Tech Crunch.
Samsung is set to unveil “the most seductive TV of all time” at CES this year.
According to The Verge, while features and specs are clearly secondary to this tease, Samsung intends to attract attention with the pure sex factor of a giant, curved 4K TV.
The TV will run on Tizen , as is the case of all other smart TVs by Samsung.
More details of the TV will emerge at Samsung’s CES press conference.
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A session on Computational Electronics on the second day of the 102nd Indian Science Congress (ISC) here today received an encouraging response from students.
Haiwon Lee, president of Korea Nanotechnology Research Society spoke of ‘Talent mobility and global research networking in science and technology’.
“Are the crisis of today confined within a single country or region” he said, pointing towards a statement made by Hillary Clinton on science diplomacy and global partnership.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has set a taken a New Year resolution to read a book every two weeks this year wherein he has created a page on the social media website “A Year of Books” inviting 30 million users to like the page.
The reason why Zuckerberg started this page is because he believes that books are “intellectually fulfilling”, reported the Verge.
He said that books allow people to go deeper inside a topic to explore it as compared to most media today.
So far, around 50,000 people have signed up to read “The End of Power” by Moises Naim.
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Quadrantid meteor shower will make this weekend’s night sky sparkle, making it the first meteor shower of 2015.
Quadrantid meteor got its name from a constellation named Quadrans Muralis, the Wall Quadrant, which was incorporated into the constellation Bootes in 1922, CBS News reported.
While the Quadrantid meteor shower can produce as many bright meteors during its peak as the more famous Perseids, the shower’s actual peak time is much narrower, making the chances of seeing a Quadrantid much less than those of seeing a Perseid.
The US space agency is planning to test inflatable spacecraft technology for future missions to Red Planet.
For this, NASA scientists are considering to use a blow-up heat shield which resembles stacking ring of doughnuts that young children play with, Daily Mail reported.
To begin with, the scientists aim to test how inflatable technology performs upon re-entry into the Earth’s atmosphere.
According to the team, a lightweight, inflatable heat shield could help a future spacecraft slow down enough to enter Mars’ atmosphere at ease.
China on Sunday launched a website to facilitate defence procurement for the world’s largest army to bring transparency amid an anti-graft crackdown at the top echelons of the 2.3 million-strong People’s Liberation Army.
PLA, which is currently undergoing massive modernisation, handling annual budget of over USD 132 billion, launched the website through its General Armament Department.
The website provides all information on the country’s weapon and armament needs, relevant policies, procurement notices, enterprise lists and technology.
Researchers have designed a new app that can help kids growing up with autism develop basic social skills.
The app, called Look At Me, aims to train autistic children to maintain eye contact and convey basic emotions.
The app was developed by Samsung in conjunction with a multidisciplinary team of clinical psychiatrists from Seoul National University and Yonsei University, South Korea.
The app uses selected Samsung devices’ cameras, putting users through a set of points-based missions, ‘Gizmag’ reported.
Polar has reportedly announced a new dedicated fitness watch that will track the wearer’s activity throughout the day.
The A300, which is a cousin to the M400, shares some of the features with its predecessor. In addition to tracking your steps taken, calories burned and distance travelled, the wearable device automatically measures your restful and restless sleep at night. However, it lacks GPS to track the users’ pace and distance while running, reported CNET.
According to an investigation, Facebook and Twitter are refusing to remove provocative Islamophobic posts from across their sites in spite of alerts from anti-racism groups.
According to the Independent, many of these posts accuse Muslims of being rapists and pedophiles. The number of such posts has increased after the Rotherham sex-abuse scandal and the murder of British hostages by Islamic State (IS) militant group in Iraq and Syria.