Washington: Happiness can be fleeting, but by hanging on to those good times and not comparing your personal experiences to those of others can help you remain happy for longer, a new study has suggested. Researchers in the US carried out a happiness survey on a group of 481 participants who had identified a recent positive change in their lives that had made them happier. Six weeks after that, the...
04:58 PM, May 08, 2012
London: Scientists who scanned the brains of men convicted of murder, rape and violent assaults have found the strongest evidence yet that psychopaths have structural abnormalities in their brains. The researchers, based at King's College London's Institute of Psychiatry, said the differences in psychopaths' brains mark them out even from other violent criminals with anti-social personality disorders (ASPD), and from healthy non-offenders. Nigel Blackwood, who led the study, said the...
02:39 AM, May 08, 2012
London: British scientists claim to be for the first time growing human body parts at a laboratory at the University College London, which they say could soon make organ donation a thing of the past. A team, led by Prof Alexander Seifalian of the varsity's Department of Nanotechnology and Regenerative Medicine, claims it's actually focussing on growing replacement organs and body parts to order, using a patient's own cells. "This...
03:39 AM, May 07, 2012
New Delhi: Perturbed over the arrest of an eminent scientist who opposed eviction of slum dwellers in Kolkata, a group of scientists has written a letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh decrying West Bengal government's action and sought his immediate intervention. A number of scientists from across the country and some parts of the world have written to Singh voicing concern on the "crack down on human rights activists and...
06:36 PM, Apr 16, 2012
Washington: Computer scientists, taking inspiration from the human face, are exploring whether machines can detect lies. In a study of 40 videotaped conversations, an automated system that analysed eye movements correctly identified whether subjects were lying or telling the truth 82.5 per cent of the time. That's a better accuracy rate than expert human interrogators typically achieve in lie-detection experiments, said Ifeoma Nwogu, research assistant professor at University of Buffalo's...
04:56 PM, Mar 27, 2012
It took two years of research for the Kashmir scientists to clone the goat. ...
10:10 PM, Mar 17, 2012
New Delhi: Putting moral pressure on the government, a Law Ministry report has suggested that former ISRO chief Madhavan Nair should have been heard before an order blacklisting him along with three of his colleagues for their alleged involvement in the Antrix-Devas deal was issued. The report accessed by CNN-IBN says that a formal chargesheet should have been served to the four scientists blacklisted by the government. Law Ministry sources...
06:40 PM, Mar 01, 2012
London: A new asteroid, identified by NASA, could potentially hit the earth on February 5, 2040, even though it is much smaller than the one - nine miles across - which wiped out the dinosaurs 65 million years ago. The UN Action Team on near-Earth objects, which has taken note of the 460-ft asteroid, placed the odds of its hitting the earth at one-in-625, though that could change nearer the...
03:53 AM, Mar 01, 2012
Mumbai: British scientists conducting a study on superbugs in London have discovered that a highly rare genetic fusion is to blame for the superbug NDM1. This fusion has given NDM1 the power to easily jump between various species of bacteria at a superfast speed, consequently making it drug resistant. The scientists, who first reported the NDM1 last year, have now found that NDM1, by jumping between bacteria strains, can make...
10:06 AM, Feb 13, 2012
Bangalore: Seeking to soothe ruffled feathers in the wake of ISRO row, the Government on Friday described the scientific community as a national asset that cannot be taken lightly, even as it appeared to soften its stand against the blacklisted four ex-functionaries of the space department. Responding to queries from reporters, Union Corporate Affairs Minister M Veerappa Moily referred to the statement of BK Chaturvedi, who along with Roddam Narasimha...
06:08 PM, Feb 10, 2012
Washington: Scientists in the US claim to have developed the world's first "biological computer" that is made from biomolecules and can decipher images encrypted on DNA chips. A team from the Scripps Research Institute in California and the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology claims it has created the computing system using bio-molecules, 'AngewandteChemie' journal reported. In the research, when suitable software was applied to the biological computer, the scientists found that...
05:29 PM, Feb 08, 2012
Former ISRO chief G Madhavan Nair has written to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh over the Antix-Devas controversy. ...
11:30 PM, Jan 30, 2012
Bangalore: As voices get stronger against the governments decision to bar four scientists of ISRO from holding government posts, including former chairman G Madhavan Nair, the heat is on the Prime Ministers Office. It is now a question of honour, says Nair, who wrote a letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh earlier on Monday, asking him to revoke the ban. Sources say that the government, under pressure and facing criticism,...
08:09 PM, Jan 30, 2012
New Delhi: There are some signs of a thaw in the stand-off between the government and former ISRO scientists. The PMO has hinted at a rethink on the ban on former ISRO chief Madhavan Nair and 3 other former space scientists. MoS Narayanasamy told CNN-IBN that the government is ready to look into the points raised by Madhavan Nair. Narayanasamy said the government's action is based on the report of...
03:18 PM, Jan 29, 2012
London: The discovery by British scientists of a new 'provisioning' gene in maize plants that regulates the transfer of nutrients from the plant to the seed could lead to increased crop yields and improve food security. Scientists from Oxford University and the University of Warwick, in collaboration with the industry have identified the gene, called Meg1. They report their findings, which they believe could help to increase global food production,...
11:23 AM, Jan 17, 2012
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