A new imaging technology could help us predict who is at risk for a heart attack.
Researchers with Spectrum Health’s Frederik Meijer Heart and Vascular Institute used new imaging technology on patients being treated for heart attacks.
The imaging technology allowed researchers to identify the characteristic makeup, or signature, of arterial plaque blocking an artery and causing a heart attack.
Apple’s latest flagship product, the iPhone 5S is speculated to have the biggest hardware upgrade ever for an ‘S’ device.
According to the Fox News, a new report from Weibo user and claimed insider C Technology may reveal full specs for the iPhone 5S.
The report said that the latest phone would include a 4-inch IGZO display with the same Retina resolution as the iPhone 5, an A6 processor faster than the current model, quad-core SGX 554MP4 graphics, 2GB of RAM and an upgraded LTE radio.
The European Commission has reportedly asked search engine giant Google to review its proposed concessions and also put in efforts to relieve concerns about dominating the search engine market.
EU”s antitrust chief said that Google must do more to relieve such concerns, after rivals criticised concessions it has offered as being inadequate, Stuff.co.nz reports.
The report said that Google has offered to mark out its own products in internet search results, provide links to at least three rival sites and make it easier for advertisers to move to rival platforms.
A research team in the National University of Singapore (NUS), led by an Indian-origin scientist, has found that fruit peels can be used for water purification, something that can help millions of people across the world without access to clean drinking water.
The team, led by Ramakrishna Mallampati, found that tomato and apple peels act like a sponge in polluted water and help in “vastly reducing levels of heavy metals, pesticides and dyes”, the Straits Times reported Thursday.
Researchers have found a method to recharge a mobile phone with urine.
According to Bristol Robotics Laboratory’s researchers, they were able to harness an electrical charge by passing urine through a stack of microbial cells that reacted to compounds, which include chloride, sodium and potassium, the Mirror reported.
The charge was enough to help make a brief call on a Samsung phone, send a text message or browse the web.
Dr Ioannis Ieropoulos, from the University of the West of England, said that using the ultimate waste product to power things is as eco as it could get.
Software manufacturer Apple is reportedly eyeing Israel based developers of the technology used in Microsoft’s Xbox 360 gadget Kinect.
According to the Daily Express, Apple is in talks with PrimseSense to negotiate the deal estimated to be over 185 million pounds.
The Microsoft gadget enables users to control the action in a game with gestures and Apple has been long rumoured to be planning to release its own videogame console.
One of India”s leading price comparison and shopping sites, PriceDekho.com launches the PriceDekho App to enable online shopping on smart phones and tablets.
As a site that offers comparison shopping, PriceDekho enables users to compare prices across scores of online stores, and check specifications and product details, find deals and coupons that help them take informed and safe purchase decisions. Users can also track prices and inventory through alerts and receive special offers.
Scientists still have doubts over the theory that Earth arose from the collision of asteroids, as its composition doesn’t resemble that of meteoroids – the small particles that break off from asteroids.
The Earth’s mantle — the layer between the planet’s crust and core — is missing an amount of lead found in meteorites whose composition has been analyzed following impact with the Earth.
Much of the Earth is composed of rocks with a high ratio of uranium to lead (uranium naturally decays to lead over time).
Ads from Google and other big web advertisers will be banned from sites offering link to pirated content as result of US scheme intended to get rid of illicit revenues.
According to the Guardian, this scheme would allow copyright holders from the music, film and other creative industries to alert the big ad networks if their ads are appearing on sites offering links to pirated content or counterfeit goods.
Scientists still have doubts over the theory that Earth arose from the collision of asteroids, as its composition doesn’t resemble that of meteoroids – the small particles that break off from asteroids.
The Earth’s mantle-the layer between the planet’s crust and core-is missing an amount of lead found in meteorites whose composition has been analyzed following impact with the Earth.
Much of the Earth is composed of rocks with a high ratio of uranium to lead (uranium naturally decays to lead over time).
A Mumbai NGO has launched the Rio+21 International Year of Water Cooperation India Program among youths and students to promote water cooperation and sustainable development, an official said here Wednesday.
“The Rio+21 IYWC India Certification Program has been launched by the Indian Astrobiology Research Centre for Science & Culture (IARC) and targets students, youth and corporates,” said IARC head and scientist Pushkar G. Vaidya.
The sun erupted with an Earth-directed coronal mass ejection on July 16, 2013.
Coronal mass ejection or CME is a solar phenomenon that can send billions of tons of particles into space that can reach Earth one to three days later.
These particles cannot travel through the atmosphere to harm humans on Earth, but they can affect electronic systems in satellites and on the ground.
China’s second-largest hydropower station turned operational earlier this week with its first power generating unit officially starting work after completing a three-day test run.
The unit of Xiluodu hydropower station is located on the lower reach of Jinsha river between southwest China’s Leibo county in Sichuan Province and Yongshan county in Yunnan province, Xinhua reported.
An international group of scientists has identified the first step toward engineering a hardier variety of Jatropha, a potential biofuel plant, which is known for its drought resisting quality.
Jatropha has seeds with high oil content. But the oil’s potential as a biofuel is limited because, for large-scale production, this shrub-like plant needs the same amount of care and resources as crop plants.
A new study has revealed that the best way to reduce carbon emissions and combat climate change is through the use of market forces.
Researchers have monitored the effectiveness of the European Climate Exchange (ECX), as the world’s biggest carbon trading platform.
The ECX was created by the EU Emissions Trading Scheme (EU-ETS) in 2005 to help the European Union (EU) achieve its obligations under the Kyoto Protocol to reduce carbon emissions.
Global sea levels will rise about 2.3 meters, or more than seven feet, over the next several thousand years for every degree (Celsius) the planet warms, according to a new study.
This international study is one of the first to combine analyses of four major contributors to potential sea level rise into a collective estimate, and compare it with evidence of past sea-level responses to global temperature changes.
The Hubble space telescope has found a new moon orbiting Neptune, the 14th known to be circling the blue-green planet, US space agency NASA said.
The moon, designated S/2004 N 1, is estimated to be no more than 19 km across, making it the smallest known moon in the Neptunian system, Xinhua cited NASA as saying in a statement.
An antiviral enzyme can lead to several forms of cancer by causing DNA mutations in humans, a new study has revealed.
The researchers at the University of Minnesota have discovered that the enzyme, called APOBEC3B is a broadly important cancer mutagen.
“We are very excited about this discovery because it indicates that a single enzyme is one of the largest known contributors to cancer mutation, possibly even eclipsing sources such as UV rays from the sun and chemicals from smoking,” lead author Reuben Harris said.
Search engine giant Google is reportedly going to shut down service of its location mobile app, Latitude, by 9 August.
According to Sydney Morning Herald, Latitude allows users to let others know where they are through the use of their smartphone”s GPS.
Google has asked its users who want to share their locations to use Google+ app on Android and said that the location sharing feature will be added to the iPhone version of Google+ very soon.
After shutting down the service of its much popular Google Reader, Latitude is the latest in the company’s list of services shut down.
Hollywood sci-fi film “Pacific Rim” has inspired the launch of a mobile game, which asks gamers to pilot a giant Jaeger robot and defend Earth from invading aliens.
The game, surrounding the movie, is developed by Reliance Games, the mobile gaming division of Reliance Entertainment Digital, in partnership with Behavior Interactive.
“We are excited to provide an enhanced and immersive experience to moviegoers with a state-of-the-art 3D mobile game,” Manish Agarwal, CEO, Reliance Entertainment Digital, said in a statement.
Periodic jumps generated in the Earth’s core change the length of a day every 5.9 years on our planet, a new study has found.
Researchers at the University of Liverpool in UK studied the variations and fluctuations in the length of day over a one to 10 year period between 1962 and 2012.
They found that variations in the length of day over periods of between one and 10 years are caused by processes in the Earth’s core.
Iron may not have played an important role in the formation of the North Pacific Ocean, new research has revealed.
At the end of the last Ice Age, as the world began to warm, a swath of the North Pacific Ocean came to life. During a brief pulse of biological productivity 14,000 years ago, this stretch of the sea teemed with phytoplankton, amoeba-like foraminifera and other tiny creatures, who thrived in large numbers until the productivity ended-as mysteriously as it began-just a few hundred years later.
Researchers have predicted that an interstellar probe fleet – travelling at 10 percent of speed of light – could survey the entire Milky Way galaxy in 10 million years.
University of Edinburgh researchers, Arwen Nicholson and Duncan Forgan’s computer simulations showed that the probes could get a turbo-boost and could save fuel by doing a slingshot off the stars’ gravitational fields, Discovery News reported.
A team of scientists from the US and UK has found geologic evidence that casts doubt on one of the conventional explanations for how Antarctica’s ice sheet began forming.
The Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC), an ocean current flowing clockwise around the entire continent, insulates Antarctica from warmer ocean water to the north, helping maintain the ice sheet.
For several decades, scientists have surmised that the onset of a complete ACC played a critical role in the initial glaciation of the continent about 34 million years ago.
Two new computer program have laid the foundation for visually impaired musicians being able to read and write music.
Lime Lighter produces a readable digital score for people having low vision, and Goodfeel, a music notes-to-Braille translator, the New York Daily News reported.
Goodfeel allows teachers and other musicians to take up any music score and transform it to Braille for their students, without having to have the knowledge of Braille.