It doesn’t bend, it won’t trap your hair and it won’t pocket dial. In fact, this “phone” can’t even send a text or make any calls. The NoPhone is simply a piece of black, rectangular-shaped plastic, billed as a new way of helping you manage your app addiction. It’s proving popular with a crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter which has raised nearly $9,000 (over £5,500) for the project already. A group […]
Google is working on a cancer-detecting pill in its latest effort to push the boundaries of technology. Still in the experimental stage, the pill is packed with tiny magnetic particles, which can travel through a patient’s bloodstream, search for malignant cells and report their findings to a sensor on a wearable device. As many as 2,000 of these microscopic “nanoparticles” could fit inside a single red blood cell to provide […]
Toronto: As compared to men who have had only one partner during their lifetime, having sex with more than 20 women is associated with a 28 percent lower risk of being diagnosed with prostate cancer, research shows. However, having more than 20 male partners in one’s lifetime is associated with a two-fold higher risk of getting prostate cancer compared to those who have never slept with a man, according to […]
In the last hundred years, we have made a significant amount of progress when it comes to the exploration of space. One century we are riding horse and buggy, and the next we are setting foot on the moon. We are all humbled when we see photos of other planets and galaxies because of their sheer beauty, but even more humbling is the fact that we still know very […]
One of Taiwan’s more bizarre national treasures is returning home after an exhibition drew thousands of visitors in Japan. Nearly 84,000 people came to see the famous Meat-Shaped Stone, which was on display at Japan’s Kyushu National Museum in the southern city of Fukuoka, the United Daily News reports. The daily average of 5,995 visitors was somewhat lower than a previous exhibition in Tokyo featuring Taiwan’s Jadeite Cabbage, which drew […]
New York: Five years after his death, singer Michael Jackson is generating a fortune and is the top-earning dead celebrity, raking in an estimated $140 million in the past year for his estate, Forbes said on Wednesday. He earned more than twice as much as singer Elvis Presley, who died in 1977 and came in second with $55 million, and three times more than cartoonist and Peanuts comic strip creator […]
NEW YORK: Some scar-forming cells in the heart have the ability to turn into cells that form blood vessels, which are required to boosts the heart’s ability to heal after an injury, an Indian-origin researcher has found, suggesting a new approach to treat heart attack. The team of researchers he led also found that a drug could enhance this phenomenon – turning the scar-forming cells in the heart, known as […]
Craft has been in space for a total of 674 days Experts claim it carried payload of spy gear in cargo bay A top-secret space plane has landed safely on the Southern California coast. Officials at Vandenberg Air Force Base said the plane, which spent nearly two years orbiting Earth on a classified mission, touched down at 9:24 a.m. Friday. The X-37B space drone, otherwise known as the Orbital Test […]
New Delhi: Noted author Richard Flanagan was declared as the winner of the prestigious Man Booker Prize 2014 last night in London. The Australian author bagged the coveted prize, leaving behind Indian-origin Neel Mukherjee, American writers Joshua Ferris and Karen Joy Fowler. The 53-year-old author’s book on the story of prisoners and captors on Burma railways brilliantly narrated in ‘The Narrow Road To The Deep North’ got him accolades. ‘The […]
New Delhi: External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj met her Canadian counterpart John Baird here on Tuesday for a discussion on Canada-India relations to strengthen bilateral economic ties between the two countries. Baird also commemorated the International Day of the Girl Child at a school in New Delhi. India and Canada were expected to discuss the bilateral issues at the meeting, including matters related to security, defence, counter-terrorism, space and nuclear […]
