Washington, Nov 16 (ANI): A leading researcher has said that shade trees can reduce homeowners' electricity bills during hot summer months.
According to professor David Laband in the Auburn University School of Forestry and Wildlife Sciences, electricity usage and costs will be 11.4 percent less if a house has just 17.5 percent heavy shade […]
Washington, November 16 (ANI): University of Cambridge researchers have found that froghoppers use archery techniques to achieve the jump of 700 mm, more than 100 times their own body length.
Writing about their findings in the open access journal BMC Biology, the researchers have revealed that froghoppers achieve their prowess by flexing bow-like structures between […]
Washington, November 16 (ANI): Tech-savvy kids' top toys this year have been found to be a richer, greener Monopoly game, a cool dinosaur set and a child-friendly MP3 player.
These are some of the names that find mention in a list of 11 choice playthings prepared by the Canadian Toy Testing Council, a non-profit group […]
Washington, November 16 (ANI): A software programme developed by Stanford artificial intelligence researchers can make it easy to edit videos and add various items in it with such an accuracy that they seem to be part of the footage right from the beginning.
The researchers say that their software does not past a picture on […]
Washington, November 16 (ANI): Researchers in the United States and at the London Centre for Nanotechnology have moved a step further towards building a usable quantum computer by finding a way to extend the quantum lifetime of electrons by over 5,000 per cent.
Writing about their work in Physical Review Letters, the researchers highlight the […]
London, November 15 (ANI): NASA is launching a machine aboard the space shuttle Endeavour, which will recycle astronauts' urine for consumption as water.
We did blind taste tests of the water. Nobody had any strong objections. Other than a faint taste of iodine, it is just as refreshing as any other kind of water, the […]
Washington, Nov 15 (ANI): The space shuttle Endeavour has lifted off from NASA's Kennedy Space Center, along with its seven-member crew, to repair and remodel the International Space Station.
Endeavour's STS-126 mission will carry to space about 32,000 pounds, which includes supplies and equipment necessary to double the crew size from three to six members […]
Bangalore, Nov 14 (IANS) India's first probe into moon landed on the lunar surface Friday night after riding on Chandrayaan-1, the country's first unmanned spacecraft to the moon, after travelling around 384,000 km in 24 days days after blasting off from Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh Oct 22.
Soon after the launch at 6.22 a.m. the spacecraft […]
Bangalore, Nov 14 (IANS) Perhaps for the first time since India adopted the saffron-white-green tricolour as its flag, millions of hearts across the country fluttered but not the flag itself when it reached the lunar surface, around 384,000 km away, Friday night.
The heart beat was faster at Indian Space Research Organisation ISRO's deep space network […]
London, Nov 13 (ANI): Based on a new climate model, scientists have determined that had humans not radically altered the atmosphere by pumping massive amounts of carbon dioxide into it, the future might have seen a super ice age lasting millions of years.
According to a report in New Scientist, Thomas Crowley of the University of […]
