Archive for the ‘Life’ Category

Chile Earthquake Shock Effect On Earth’s Axis May Have Created Shorter Days

Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010

The earthquake that took more than 700 lives in Chile on 27th Feb 2010 probably have changed the entire Earth's rotation and shortened the length of days on our planet, a National Aeronautics and Space Administration scientist said.

IBM To Build Next Generation Chips Using DNA

Tuesday, August 18th, 2009

In future DNA wouldn’t just control human evolution but also computing evolution, if IBM succeeds to use DNA in development of next-generation microchips. [caption id="attachment_378" align="alignright" width="232" caption="IBM scientists are using DNA scaffolding to build tiny circuit boards; this image shows high concentrations of triangular DNA origami binding to wide lines ...

Technology In 2008, Some Important Trends And Events

Thursday, January 1st, 2009

A number of technologies have exploded throughout 2008, improving and influencing our daily life. Here is a quick look at some of the technology events that happened during 2008. Big Bang Experiment: The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the world's largest and highest-energy particle accelerator, intended to collide opposing beams of ...

Mobile Social Networking Booming

Monday, December 22nd, 2008

The number of people using their mobile phones to access social networking sites such as Facebook and Bebo and keep in constant touch with their friends has rocketed this year, according to new research reported by Guardian. Almost all the handset manufacturers like Nokia, Blackberry, Apple releasing new handsets and smart ...

Scientists Extract Images Directly From Brain

Wednesday, December 17th, 2008

Pink Tentacle reports that researchers at Japan’s ATR Computational Neuroscience Laboratories have developed a system that can "reconstruct the images inside a person’s mind and display them on a computer monitor." According to the researchers, further development of the technology may soon make it possible to view other people’s dreams while ...

Simulation Shows Bacteria Could Live on Mars

Sunday, December 7th, 2008

The possibility of life on Mars has been debated almost since the invention of the telescope. Annual growth and shrinkage of the martian ice caps and seasonal changes in color were observed by astronomers such as Herschel and Whewell in the 18th and 19th centuries. Late in the 19th century, Schiaparelli ...