Stanford scientists discover how dense, extraterrestrial ice can form in just billionths of a second

Jul 14, 2017, at 11:42 pm

London, July 14 (IBNS): Stanford researchers have for the first time captured the freezing of water, molecule-by-molecule, into a strange, dense form called ice VII , found naturally in otherworldly environments, such as when icy planetary bodies collide.

Mosquitoes should not be eliminated: Research

Jul 14, 2017, at 05:03 am

West Lafayette, Ind., July 13 (IBNS): A Purdue researcher and a team of scientists working on a new insecticide argue that mosquitoes should not simply be made extinct due to their role in various ecosystems.

New till receipt design could make us healthier, say academics

Jul 14, 2017, at 04:54 am

Birmingham, July 13 (IBNS): A new traffic light system which uses till receipts to display nutritional information for an entire supermarket shop could revolutionise the way we buy food, say academics at Birmingham City University in the UK.

14,000 people evacuated in British Columbia Wildfire, Williams Lake under high alert

Jul 14, 2017, at 03:09 am

Ottawa, July 13 (IBNS): Almost 14,000 people were evacuated from their homes following a wildfire in British Columbia's Interior which raged since last Friday.

Giant Antarctica iceberg twice the size of Luxembourg breaks off

Jul 13, 2017, at 08:49 pm

London, Jul 13 (IBNS) : A giant iceberg twice the size of Luxembourg and one of the largest ever recorded, has broken off an ice shelf on the Antarctic peninsula and is now adrift in the Weddell Sea, media reports said.

Union Minister Rijiju arrives in Assam to take stock of flood situation

Jul 13, 2017, at 07:59 pm

Guwahati, July 13 : While Assam is still struggling with a devastating flood.which has already claimed 45 lives and affected over 1.7 million people of 24 districts out of 32, Union Minister of State for Home, Kiren Rijiju, arrived on Thursday in the state, to take stock of the situation and submit a report to the Centre.

The one trillion tonne iceberg: Larsen C Ice Shelf rift finally breaks through

Jul 13, 2017, at 01:42 am

Washington, July 12 (IBNS): A one trillion tonne iceberg – one of the biggest ever recorded - has calved away from the Larsen C Ice Shelf in Antarctica, after a rift in the ice, monitored by the Swansea University-led MIDAS project, finally completed its path through the ice.

First battery-free cellphone makes calls by harvesting ambient power

Jul 13, 2017, at 12:36 am

Washington, July 12 (IBNS): University of Washington researchers have invented a cellphone that requires no batteries — a major leap forward in moving beyond chargers, cords and dying phones. Instead, the phone harvests the few microwatts of power it requires from either ambient radio signals or light.

Coffee bubble phobia may be deep-seated aversion to parasites, says study

Jul 13, 2017, at 12:00 am

London, July 12 (IBNS): Some people experience intense aversion and anxiety when they see clusters of roughly circular shapes, such as the bubbles in a cup of coffee or the holes in a sponge.

Lip-syncing Obama: New tools turn audio clips into realistic video

Jul 12, 2017, at 11:19 pm

Washington, July 12 (IBNS): University of Washington researchers have developed new algorithms that solve a thorny challenge in the field of computer vision: turning audio clips into a realistic, lip-synced videoof the person speaking those words.

Hidden stars may make planets appear smaller

Jul 12, 2017, at 09:17 pm

Washington, July 12 (IBNS): In the search for planets similar to our own, an important point of comparison is the planet's density.

Cabinet approves creation of three posts of Directors for three new AIIMS

Jul 12, 2017, at 09:14 pm

New Delhi, Jul 12 (IBNS): The Union Cabinet chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, on Wednesday, approved the creation of three posts of Directors in the three new AIIMS at Mangalagiri near Guntur in Andhra Pradesh, Kalyani in West Bengal and Nagpur in Maharashtra.

Rescue operations in full swing in landslide-hit village near Sagalee in Arunachal Pradesh

Jul 12, 2017, at 07:42 pm

Itanagar, Jul 12 (IBNS): Rescue operations are in full swing to retrieve bodies of those killed in a massive landslide at Laptap village in Sagalee, Arunachal Pradesh, according to media reports on Wednesday.

LHC experiments delve deeper into precision

Jul 12, 2017, at 01:42 am

Geneva and Venice, July 11 (IBNS): The world’s particle physics community is meeting this week in Venice (Italy) for the EPS International Conference on High Energy Physics. Dozens of new results from the full existing datasets of the Large Hadron Collider experiments are being presented for the first time.

Questionnaires can be a good predictor of survival rates in multiple sclerosis, says study

Jul 12, 2017, at 12:43 am

London, July 11 (IBNS): The way in which patients with multiple sclerosis answer questionnaires could help to predict their survival rate from the disease, a study has found.

Drinking coffee reduces risk of death from all causes, study finds

Jul 12, 2017, at 12:33 am

London, July 11 (IBNS): People who drink around three cups of coffee a day may live longer than non-coffee drinkers, a landmark study has found.

Congestion on Delhi roads has worsened says new analysis by CSE

Jul 11, 2017, at 10:08 pm

New Delhi, Jul 11 (IBNS): An assessment of travel time and traffic speed in Delhi by the city-based Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) has revealed that India's capital is in the grip of a worsening congestion and pollution crisis.

Your hands may reveal the struggle to maintain self-control, says study

Jul 11, 2017, at 02:08 am

Columbus, July 10 (IBNS): It takes just a few seconds to choose a cookie over an apple and wreck your diet for the day.

Scientists make “squarest” ice crystals ever

Jul 11, 2017, at 02:02 am

Columbus, July 10 (IBNS): You won’t find ice cubes like this in your freezer.

Researchers identify inflammatory biomarkers indicating brain injury

Jul 10, 2017, at 09:53 pm

London, July 10 (IBNS): Researchers at the University of Birmingham have identified inflammatory biomarkers which indicate whether the brain has suffered injury.

New study links antibiotic resistance to common household disinfectant triclosan

Jul 10, 2017, at 09:45 pm

London, July 10 (IBNS): Scientists from the University of Birmingham have discovered a link between a major mechanism of antibiotic resistance and resistance to the disinfectant triclosan which is commonly found in domestic products.

Sufferers of both Type 2 diabetes and sleep apnoea could lose eyesight within four years

Jul 10, 2017, at 09:39 pm

London, July 10 (IBNS): Research led by the University of Birmingham has discovered that patients who suffer from both Type 2 diabetes and obstructive sleep apnoea are at greater risk of developing a condition that leads to blindness within an average period of less than four years.

New device designed by Duke University team may make cervical cancer testing more affordable

Jul 10, 2017, at 07:38 pm

North Carolina/US, Jul 10 (IBNS): Indian-American professor Nimmi Ramanujam and team have developed a new handheld device that will make screening for cervical cancer more accessible and affordable, according to media reports on Monday.

Surface of Mars poses danger to life, tests show

Jul 09, 2017, at 02:56 am

London, July 8 (IBNS) The environment on Mars may be more harmful to Earth-based life forms than previously thought, experiments by Edinburgh scientists have shown.

Learning with music can change brain structure, says study

Jul 09, 2017, at 02:40 am

London, July 8 (IBNS): Using musical cues to learn a physical task significantly develops an important part of the brain, according to a new study.

Particle discovery helps solve physics puzzle

Jul 09, 2017, at 02:30 am

London, July 8 (IBNS): Edinburgh scientists have helped identify a new type of particle in experiments at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN.

Sugar intake during pregnancy is associated with allergy and allergic asthma in children, finds study

Jul 09, 2017, at 02:15 am

London, July 8 (IBNS): The team, which included researchers from University of Bristol, used data from a world-leading birth cohort study, the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC), also known as ‘Children of the 90s’.

New way of predicting kidney function could improve chemotherapy dosing for many cancer patients

Jul 09, 2017, at 02:05 am

London, July 8 (IBNS): Scientists at the University of Cambridge have developed a new statistical model which estimates kidney function in patients with cancer.

Fastest stars in the Milky Way are ‘runaways’ from another galaxy

Jul 09, 2017, at 01:55 am

London, July 8 (IBNS): A group of astronomers have shown that the fastest-moving stars in our galaxy – which are travelling so fast that they can escape the Milky Way – are in fact runaways from a much smaller galaxy in orbit around our own.

Astronomers discover a new branch in the family tree of exoplanets

Jul 09, 2017, at 01:31 am

Toronto, July 8 (IBNS): A new study involving scientists from UdeM's iREx reveals super-Earths and larger mini-Neptunes in our galaxy.