Metagenomics may prove the most powerful tool to revolutionise the study of the microbial world since the invention of microscope, asserts the National Research Council.
According to a new report of the Council, this emerging field, which is about...
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The concept of cold fusion may come out of the cold box since U.S scientists believe that this controversial topic may again lift head long after it had been regarded as a scientific breakthrough. Cold fusion is now regarded as low energy nuclear...
It’s good news for all those who love to match their sunglasses with their outfits. You no longer have to stack up different coloured sun glasses in your wardrobe; you can buy “smart” sunglasses which will change colours on-demand and use all the saved...
People going under the knife should read this sincerely since UT Southwestern Medical Center physicians and UT Arlington engineers have collaborated for creating a system which would ensure that a patient undergoing surgery does not have to suffer from...
For the first time ever, a way to make visible light travel in the opposite direction is devised! As normally, light bends when it passes from one material to another like -- from air through water or glass.
This phenomenon of negative refraction...
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Are you a colorblind, and cannot gather enough confident to move out at night? The Boston-based company -- Tenebraex Corporation -- working on military applications, has come up with innovative hi-tech goggles -- ColorPath CCNVD...
Oki Electric Industry Co. Ltd of Japan has come up with an IC with the world's smallest footprints. The 'KGL5115KD', a 10Gbps EML driver IC for optical communication, can save you a fortune by achieving the world’s lowest power consumption at 0.45W...
Next time you won’t have to taste your food in order to find out whether it has been spoilt or not as researchers are in the process of creating a dipstick test which can help in detection of any chemicals in the food emitted by bacteria which cause...
Professor Esmail Zanjani, of the University of Nevada has spent the last seven years and £5 million in perfecting a technique by which a sheep can be created with 15% human cells.
The technique involves a process in which adult human cells are...
Now, the colorblind mice can see like a human being! Scientists have endowed a few with a human gene which is allowing the rodents to see the world in full “Technicolor splendor”.
This is a groundbreaking achievement in resolving a long-standing...
Wow!! This is something really interesting, scientists are in the process of dismantling sauropod dinosaur which used to inhabit Wyoming more than hundred and fifty million years ago and will be rebuilding it in order to reflect the latest...
Two is too insufficient in New Zealand. To keep up with the growing tendency of ewes giving multiple births, New Zealand scientists are now trying to breed sheep with four nipples instead of two.
As per a report in Otago Daily Times, the instances of...
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Now, you can literally interact with your car while driving. With the in-car navigation systems existing for some time now, a new German project has come up with a bit more innovations.
The project -- dubbed SmartWeb --...
Since time immemorial, all of us know that mosquitoes transmit malaria. But, science has progressed to such an extent that today; mosquitoes are being bred to prevent malaria. It’s not a conundrum. The GM insect carries a gene that prevents infection by...
A four-legged chicken! That is what the Hebron museum in West Bank city of Hebron will be adding to its list of “animals with weird physical abnormalities” soon. The museum will be exhibiting this bizarre state of the chicken this week.
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