Instagram made all its users lose their minds in the holy holidays week, when it rolled out a major update which changed the way people interact with...
Applied Sciences
Google announces brand new program to help kids learn programing
Google loves programming and it really wants to help the rest of the world appericiate it as well. In fact, we often keep hearing of this program or...
Pentagon Collaborates With Apple, Boeing And Others To Develop High-Tech Sensory Gear
The Pentagon is joining hands with private corporations in its drive to develop multi-purpose, high-tech sensory gear with uses ranging...
MedGenome Diagnostics Secures $20 Million to Revolutionise Genomic Research In India
With an ambition to pioneer genomic technologies in India and providing a huge variety of genomics research services globally, MedGenome has today...
Paytm announces IMPS, allows you to transfer money to bank accounts via its mobile wallet
One of country’s top mobile wallet providers PayTm, today announced a feature, which could well bear the tag of being the next big innovation...
German biometric expert duplicates fingerprints from photographs !
Think your biometric safety systems are safe? Your fingerprints, are obviously unique- no one could possibly breach your security without your prints...
60-year-old prediction of atomic behavior confirmed:New experimental path to superfast quantum computing
Researchers have used a super-cold cloud of atoms that behaves like a single atom to see a phenomenon predicted 60 years ago and witnessed only once...
Cosmic illusion revealed: Gravitational lens magnifies supernova
Astronomers have announced the discovery of a galaxy that magnified a background, Type Ia supernova thirty-fold through gravitational lensing. This...
Samsung Buys SmartThings for $200 Million
Samsung, today purchased the smart home hub, SmartThings that allows users to program their homes, reportedly for $200 million.
Pragya Sharma
Engineer invents a way to beam power to medical chips deep inside the body
Researchers have invented a way to wirelessly beam power to programmable devices deep inside the body. These medical chips could be as small as a...
Magnetic fingerprint of our galaxy revealed
Astrophysicists have released an unprecedented map of the entire sky that charts the magnetic field shaping our Milky Way Galaxy. The map reveals...
Researchers see rare-earth-like magnetic properties in iron
Scientists at the U.S. Dept. of Energy (DOE)’s Ames Laboratory have observed the magnetic properties typically associated with those observed in...
Scientist creates slimmest wires yet known, only 3 atoms thick !
Junhao Lin, a Vanderbilt Univ. graduate student and visiting scientist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), has found a new way to use a finely...
Dutch engineers try out glowing roads
In an attempt to save money and also working towards a greener future, the Dutch government has decided to implement the winner of the “Best Future...
What role could a champagne fizz possibly have in its taste ? Scientist finds an answer
The importance of fizz, more technically known as effervescence, in sparkling wines and champagnes is not to be underestimated—it contributes to...
Project Tango to power NASA robots in space.
The most talked about project in Google’s Advanced Technology and Projects division is Project TANGO. Project tango aims to create a 3D...
Intel testing out liquid coolants
Overheating is nowadays a general problem for the big server rooms,heavy usage on PC’s etc. Intel has come up with an indigenous solution:...
New physical phenomenon on nanowires seen for the first time
Very tiny wires made of semiconducting material i.e. more than thousand times thinner than a human hair—promise to be an essential component for...