Scientists have revealed that dolphins have the longest memories yet found in a non-human species.
Researchers in the US have found that dolphins can remember the distinctive whistle of another dolphin they haven’t seen in two decades, the BBC reported.
The authors believe that these long-term memories are a product of the complex social connections that dolphins have evolved.
A team of researchers has discovered a group of stress-related proteins which shows how plants avoid sunburn in intense light.
The finding could one day help biotechnologists to develop crops that can better cope with hotter, drier conditions occurring in climate change.
The study, titled “Subset of heat-shock transcription factors required for the early response of Arabidopsis to excess light,” was led by researchers from Dartmouth, the Salk Institute for Biological Studies and Australian National University.
Researchers have detected the light from a star that exploded more than 12 billion years ago.
At its death it glowed so brightly that it outshone its entire galaxy by a million times.
This brilliant flash travelled across space for 12.7 billion years to our planet Earth that hadn’t even existed at the time of the explosion.
By analyzing this light, astronomers learned about a galaxy that was otherwise too small, faint and far away for even the Hubble Space Telescope to see.
Microsoft’s launch of Surface tablets intended to compete with competitors like Apple’s iPad has reportedly failed to garner success even when the company has dropped the prices to boost sales.
According to ABC News, Microsoft dropped the price of its Surface RT to 350 dollars from 499 dollars a few weeks ago and it has announced a similar change for 64GB Surface Pro tablet to 799 dollars down by a hundred dollar.
Mobile manufacturer Samsung is likely to unveil its latest version of the flagship Galaxy Note on September 4 at the IFA technology conference in Berlin.
The company called the event ‘Samsung Unpacked 2013’ which will be live streamed via the web, and it will host a press event at the same time in New York City”s Times Square for people to watch and get hands-on time with the devices, the CNN reports.
Tech firm Apple’s latest acquisition, Passif Semiconductor, is
going to give the company more ventures into wearable computing.
The Mashable reports that Apple has bought a small company that specializes in designing
communications chips that use very little power and work with the Bluetooth Smart
standard.
Bluetooth Smart devices, such as heart-rate monitors, can connect to smartphones and
tablets but consume power at a rate that their batteries can last months or even years on
a single charge.
The world’s first talking robot “astronaut” blasted off for the International Space Station on Sunday.
The 13-inch tall Kirobo said the mission was “One small step for me, a giant leap for robots” as he prepared for launch from Tanegashima, in south western Japan, the Mirror reported.
Kirobo will keep Japanese astronaut Koichi Wakata company when he arrives at the ISS in November.
Designer Tomotaka Takahashi made the robot to see how machines can lend support to isolated people. (ANI)
Using smartphones as a learning tool for kids can impede early development in areas that would impact the child for the rest of their lives, experts have claimed.
It has been revealed that about 25 percent of kids 2 years old and younger have their own smartphones, CBS News reported.
According to the experts, using this type of technology is same as putting a child in front of a television, where kids don’t learn but are just get distracted.
Since childhood is a time for serious brain development, children could face problems with their basic social, verbal and learning skills.
About 47 percent of Chinese urban residents have smartphones, according to a report released by Google on Wednesday.
The “Our Mobile Planet: China” report, conducted by Google and market research company IPSOS in the first quarter, surveyed 1,000 urban Internet users between the ages of 18 and 64. Smartphones have become an indispensable part of people”s daily lives, as 69 percent of respondents said they access the Internet every day on their smartphones and 38 percent never leave home without the devices, according to the report.
A pair of designers and aviation enthusiasts have built what they call the ‘world’s first flying bicycle.’
The bike, which as been named as ‘the XploreAir Paravelo’ by the designers, is an ordinary two-wheeled bike- with off-the-shelf handlebars, a seat and brakes – with a trailer attachment containing a parachute and a turbofan, Fox News reported.
It works as any ordinary one would until you unfurl the chute, which is called as wings by its creators, and power up the fan.
People who are aware of the latest 4G internet service that gives consistently faster and more reliable service for video and music streaming, mobile gaming, and sending emails with large attachments have no plans to shift from their current service, a new study has revealed.
According to an Ofcom report, just under a quarter of UK smartphone users do not want to sign up for 4G even when they are aware of the existence of the mobile data services, BBC reports.
A team of forest officials rescued a one-and-half-month-old leopard cub, which had fallen in a well of a farm in Una area in Junagadh district, and succeeded in reuniting it with its mother, a senior official said friday.
The feline had fallen into a well last night behind the Goddess Ambaji temple on the Delvada road area in the district, deputy conservator of forests Anshuman Sharma told PTI
“The leopard cub was trapped alive inside a well. As soon as we received the information, our team rushed to the site and rescued it safely with the help of a rope,” Sharma said.
NASA’s Curiosity rover will complete a year on Mars next week.
It has already achieved its main science goal of revealing that ancient Mars could have supported life.
The mobile laboratory also is guiding designs for future planetary missions.
“Successes of our Curiosity-that dramatic touchdown a year ago and the science findings since then-advance us toward further exploration, including sending humans to an asteroid and Mars,” NASA Administrator Charles Bolden, said.
“Wheel tracks now, will lead to boot prints later,” he said.
Scientists in the US have reportedly grown a human-like ear from animal tissue and say they may soon be able to grow a complete human ear from a patient’s cells.
The ear has the flexibility of a real ear, researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston told BBC.
Tissue engineering is a growing field in medical science, where substitute organs are made in the laboratory in the hope of using them to replace damaged ones.
Software giant Apple is planning to issue a software update to its iPhones which were found to be ‘hack-prone’ with certain applications and use of peripherals like chargers.
According to the BBC, Apple’s software update would help its products avoid falling victim to booby-trapped chargers in response to research that created malicious chargers that could upload code onto devices plugged into them.
Scientists have found that the likely rate of change in the climate will be at least 10 times quicker than any climate shift in the past 65 million years.
According to a study conducted by researchers from the Carnegie Institution, the rapid climate shift will place significant stress on terrestrial ecosystems around the world, and many species will need to make behavioral, evolutionary or geographic adaptations to survive.
Google owned Motorola has reportedly come up with its latest smartphone which is ‘always listening’ and can be ‘custom-designed’ with a choice of colours and materials.
The MotoX which functions much like the controversial Google Glass listens for instructions when the user says ‘OK Google now…’ prompting the touchless control system to function.
According to Stuff.co.nz, the MotoX allows customers to personalize with a choice of colours and materials including unusual phone materials such as wood.
A month and a half after coming to the iPhone, Microsoft has now launched an app version of its ubiquitous Office productivity suite on the Android platform Google Play.
And, although it is listed as being free and offering users the ability to view Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents, in order to get the most out of the app, downloaders will also need to sign up to Microsoft’s cloud-based Office 365 subscription program.
First full-chromosome sequencing effort has found that most recent male and female common ancestors lived around the same time.
A study led by the Stanford University School of Medicine indicates the two roughly overlapped during evolutionary time – from between 120,000 to 156,000 years ago for the man, and between 99,000 and 148,000 years ago for the woman.
“Previous research has indicated that the male MRCA lived much more recently than the female MRCA,” Carlos Bustamante, PhD, senior author and a professor of genetics at Stanford, said.
New research from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope and Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) has found that, contrary to previous theories, gargantuan galaxies appear to slow their growth over time, feeding less and less off neighbouring galaxies.
“We’ve found that these massive galaxies may have started a diet in the last 5 billion years, and therefore have not gained much weight lately,” Yen-Ting Lin of the Academia Sinica in Taipei, Taiwan, lead author of the study, said.
India is among countries that will be most seriously hit by climate change and technological innovation was needed to cut carbon emissions, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said Friday.
Speaking at the inauguration of two Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd (BHEL) projects here, Manmohan Singh said: “Today, climate change has become an urgent concern across the globe.
“India is among the countries that would be the most seriously impacted by the consequences of climate change. We need to develop ways and means to reduce our carbon footprint through technological innovation,” he said.
Rise in temperatures and precipitation is likely to result in more personal violence and social upheaval, a new study has revealed.
According to the study conducted by researchers from Princeton University and the University of California-Berkeley, Earth that is expected to warm by 2 degrees Celsius by 2050, more human conflict is a likely outcome of increased climate change.
iPatched, a simple and inexpensive technology, has been
developed as a solution to camera intrusions that is increasingly used to access the
privacy of citizens, mostly women.
The Washington Times reports that iPatched fix is a vinyl circle that clings to the
surface of webcams and smart phones preventing the hackers from intervening anybody’s
privacy.
Earlier, the perpetrators could tap into a victim’s computer using Remote Administration
Tools (RAT), and hack the web cam, which can be turned on and off at their pleasure.
Google after inviting more than 6,000 people to buy and try its controversial wearable computing device Google Glass in its Explorer program has reportedly allowed some of the owners to invite their friends to become part of the program.
According to ABC News, the Google Glass explorers who bought the glasses received emails from the search engine giant to invite a friend to the program.
Google said that it is always experimenting with new ways to expand its Explorer program but did not comment upon the number of users it will be adding to the program.
NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has found that the intensity of jets of water ice and organic particles that shoot out from Saturn’s moon Enceladus depends on the moon’s proximity to the ringed planet.
The finding adds to evidence that a liquid water reservoir or ocean lurks under the icy surface of the moon.
This is the first clear observation the bright plume emanating from Enceladus’ south pole varies predictably.