salman_jobs Researchers have developed the first ultra-thin, flexible device that sticks to skin like a rub-on tattoo to detect glucose levels, eliminating the need for painful finger-pricking for diabetics.
Researchers at the University of California, San Diego, said that diabetes affects hundreds of millions of people worldwide and many of these patients are instructed to monitor closely their blood glucose levels to manage the disease.
A ‘brain dead’ man today provided a new lease of life to six persons after his organs were harvested and transplanted on them.
R Padmanabhan (44) of Singanallur area here suffered a serious head injury on January 13 when his two-wheeler collided with another motorcycle.
He was immediately rushed to Coimbatore Medical College Hospital and later shifted to the private K G Hospital here.
Six fresh cases of swine flu were reported in the national capital today even as Delhi government has geared up to prevent the spread of the virus.
“Also we have started sending all the samples to National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) to reconfirm that the cases reported are swine flu cases,” said R N Das, a member of the five-member team constituted by Health department to review swine flu cases.
The Chhattisgarh government here today claimed that over 37,000 children in the state have become healthy and are no more malnourished, thanks to state’s ‘Nava Jatan Yojna’.
State Women and Child Development Minister Ramshila Sahu told reporters that the rate of malnourishment has been consistently going down in the state.
She said in the third round of ‘Nava Jatan Yojna’ that began in September last year and was implemented in 27 districts by December 2014, out of total 66,000 malnourished children, 28 per cent were taken out of the clutches of malnourishment.
Russian federal space agency Roscosmos and US space agency NASA are maintaining constant contact after a false alarm triggered an emergency situation at the International Space Station (ISS), Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin said on Wednesday.
A meeting was convened among ISS crew onboard, Roscosmos, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and European Space Agency (ESA) to keep abreast of the latest development at the space station, Xinhua reported.
Material engineers including an Indian-origin scientist from University of Wisconsin-Madison have reported the highest-performing carbon nanotube transistors ever demonstrated – a significant leap toward creating flexible electronics with improved battery life.
Carbon nanotubes are single atomic sheets of carbon rolled up into a tube.
As some of the best electrical conductors ever discovered, carbon nanotubes have long been recognised as a promising material for next-generation transistors.
Scientists have recently developed a new computer program that is said to be unbeatable at poker, it has been reported.
The program developed by the Computer Research Poker Group at the University of Alberta in Canada has been named Cepheus, henceforth to be known as “Ceph the Unbeatable,” the Independent reported.
While researchers have previously developed “unbeatable” algorithms for games such as chess or draughts, this is the first time that scientists have “solved” a game in which some information (i.e. the cards in the opponent’s hand) remains hidden from the player.
NASA officials said ammonia leak aboard International Space Station turned out to be a false alarm due to some computer problem, the BBC reported on Wednesday.
Crew from a US segment of the International Space Station was recently moved after gas leak alarm went off.
The Russian space agency emphasized that the crew members had not been in any danger, and said that mission control experts in Russia and the US had quickly co-operated to ensure the crew’s safety.
NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover is all set to drill into a crystal-rich rock on the Red planet to find out salt mineral left behind when lake water evaporated, says an Indian-American scientist associated with the project.
The rock target called “Mojave” at Gale Crater displays copious slender features – slightly smaller than grains of rice – that appear to be mineral crystals.
“The crystal shapes are apparent in the earlier images of Mojave but we do not know what they represent,” said Curiosity project scientist Ashwin Vasavada at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California.
Long space mission induces a blood shift in astronauts from the bottom half of the body to the top that may lead to health problems, say researchers.
“We know that some astronauts experience vision problems some months into space flight and this may, in fact, be caused by the augmented fluid and blood volume shift to the upper body,” said lead study author Peter Norsk, scientist from University of Copenhagen.
For the study, the team measured the volume of blood ejected by the heart into the blood vessels and monitored the blood pressure in eight astronauts aged between 45-53 years.
A new research has provided a deeper insight into how artificial intelligence can help physicists predict hazardous solarflares.
Though scientists do not completely understand what triggers solar flares, Stanford solar physicists Monica Bobra and Sebastien Couvidat have automated the analysis of those gigantic explosions. The method could someday provide advance warning to protect power grids and communication satellites.
India’s trade deficit declined to 10-month low of USD 9.43 billion in December mainly on account of falling imports due to slump in crude prices, though exports too have come down.
Gold imports showed an increase from year-ago level to USD 1.34 billion in December, but it is a substantial decline from the previous month (USD 5.61 billion).
As per the data released by the government, imports bill declined by 4.8 percent to USD 34.8 billion during the month from USD 36.6 billion from December 2013, leading to improvement in the trade balance situation.
Commerce Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will visit Sweden later this month to identify areas of closer economic cooperation between the countries.
Sitharaman will meet her Swedish counterpart Mikael Damberg on January 30 and will take stock of collaboration in trade, Counsellor, Trade and Economic Affairs at the Embassy of Sweden, New Delhi, Anna Ferry told PTI.
“During the meeting the two Ministers will take stock of the collaboration in trade and investment and explore areas of closer cooperation,” Ferry said.
Cash-strapped SpiceJet on Thursday returned to original promoter Ajay Singh for its revival in a multi-layered deal worth up to Rs 1,500 crore, as Maran family agreed to cede control with transfer of over 53 percent stake in the airline that has been struggling for months to survive.
Singh would get 53.48 percent stake, currently worth about Rs 500 crore, in the airline from the Maran family, while an open offer for purchase of further 26 percent from public shareholders (worth about Rs 250 crore) will be made if asked by the markets regulator Sebi.
By selling off yuMobile in Kenya to Bharti Airtel and local operator Safaricom, Essar Thursday marked its exit from telecom business globally and completed monetisation in the segment for USD 6 billion.
Essar Global Fund Limited (EGFL), managed by Essar Capital, said in a statement that “it has completely exited the telecom business with successful closure of the transaction in Kenya.”
Essar has concluded sale of its Kenya based yuMobile to Airtel and Safaricom for USD 120 million.
The US-India Business Council (USIBC) has appointed Mukesh Aghi, the chief executive and member of board of directors at L&T InfoTech, as its new president.
“Mukesh Aghi’s experience will be invaluable as he leads USIBC in strengthening and expanding US-India business ties in the critical years ahead for the bilateral relationship,” said Ajay Banga, USIBC chairman, and president and CEO of MasterCard.
As president, Aghi will lead the council’s strategic direction and policy priorities with the objective of enhancing the bilateral commercial relationship.
An Income Tax probe has claimed to have found an undisclosed income of Rs 203 crore in the hands of different people of Aditya Birla Group which had allegedly used the hawala route to transfer an undisclosed sum of money.
Months after the sensational seizure of Rs 25 crore in one of the Aditya Birla Group offices here in October 2013, a report filed by the Additional Director of Income Tax (Investigation) claims that Aditya Birla Management Corporation Pvt Ltd received cash from certain companies of the Group through the angadias/hawala operator in Delhi.
At least seven militants were killed on Thursday in a drone strike in Pakistan`s North Waziristan, media reported.
Two missiles were fired on a house at Shawal valley by a US drone, setting the house ablaze and destroyed it completely, Geo TV reported.
North Waziristan is among Pakistan`s seven tribal districts near the Afghanistan border rife with homegrown insurgents and are alleged to be strongholds of Taliban and al Qaeda operatives, among other extremist groups.
An earthquake of mild intensity on Thursday jolted Swat valley and its adjoining areas in northwest Pakistan but there was no casualty so far.
An earthquake measuring 4.6 on Richter scale rattled Swat and its adjoining areas during morning hours, according to the Meteorological Department.
The epicenter of the quake was in Hindukush Range.
The tremors caused fear and panic among locals, who rushed towards open spaces fearing a strong earthquake.
People of the area witnessed the tremors for the fourth time in 10 days.
Pakistan Army chief Raheel Sharif met British Prime Minister David Cameron here and discussed issues related to regional security, media reported on Thursday.
Gen Sharif raised issues related to proscribed organisations, anti-Pakistan elements operating from outside Pakistan and measures to choke terror financing, Dawn reported.
He also held talks on regional security and mutual defence cooperation with British Defence Secretary Michael Fallon and Chief of Defence Staff General Sir Nicholas Houghton.
Pakistan parliament on Thursday adopted a unanimous resolution against blasphemous caricatures published by French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, saying it is a deliberate attempt to “widen misunderstandings among civilisations” and incite violence.
The resolution tabled in the National Assembly or the lower house said: “These cartoons are a conspiracy to widen misunderstandings among civilisations.”
A new study has recently revealed global oceans have risen at almost double the estimate in the last two decades than previously thought. Their reassessment of tide gauge data from 1900-1990 found that the world’s seas went up more slowly than earlier estimates – by about 1.2mm per year, but this makes the 3mm per year tracked by satellites since 1990 a much bigger trend change as a consequence, the BBC reported. Dr Carling Hay from Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, said that this new acceleration was about 25 percent higher than previous estimates.
A new research has said that depression and behavioral changes may precede the memory declines in people who later develop Alzheimer’s disease. Researchers have known that many people with Alzheimer’s experience depression, irritability, apathy and appetite loss but had not recognized how early these symptoms appear. Pinpointing the origins of these symptoms could be important to fully understanding Alzheimer’s effects on the brain and finding ways to counteract them. According to senior author Catherine M. Roe, PhD at Washington University School of Medicine in St.
A China based South Korean restaurant has offered free meals to its 50 first customers, but only if they are most beautiful. The Jeju Island restaurant in Zhengzhou, China, launched a promotional offer, which is part beauty contest, part early-bird special, and would give away free food to the first 50 attractive customers to arrive at its doors each day, the Mashable reported.
England pace bowler Stuart Broad has lavished praise on the team’s current batting line-up, saying that it is the most powerful line-up he has ever played with. England accumulated a mammoth runs 391-6 during their win over a Prime Minister’s XI in Canberra, which followed a score of 364-6 against an ACT XI. Broad said that it was the most powerful batting line-up he had ever played with as they nearly scored 800 runs in their last 100 overs batting, the BBC reported.