SHE-A self-defense inner wear for women

Manisha, a student of Aeronautical Engineering, Niladri and Rimpi students of Instrumentation & Control Engineering, from SRM University, Chennai – came up with a self defense equipment (SHE -Society Harnessing Equipment) for women which protect them from domestic, social and workplace harassment. The system devised is an inner wear, actuated with sensors and electric shock circuit board, for women. Along…

Synthetic Genome to create a Bacterium cell

“Creation of a Bacterial cell Controlled only by a Chemically Synthesized Genome” Genomics: Synthetic Genome Brings New Life to Bacterium

Elizabeth Pennisi

For 15 years, J. Craig Venter has chased a dream: to build a genome from scratch and use it to make synthetic life. Now, he and his team at the J. Craig Venter Institute…

"SixthSense" -integrating information with the real world

‘SixthSense’ is a wearable gestural interface that augments the physical world around us with digital information and lets us use natural hand gestures to interact with that information.

“We’ve evolved over millions of years to sense the world around us. When we encounter something, someone or some place, we use our five natural senses to perceive…

Scientists steal electricity from algae

It is reported that scientists from California and Korea have successfully stolen an electric current from algae for the first time, which could eventually create a new and environmentally friendly way to generate electricity.Creatures have been stealing energy from plants and algae for nearly as long as plants and algae have been around.

Usually, they…

India became the first country to have a ‘manoeuvrable´ supersonic cruise missile

India on Sunday became the first country to have a ‘manoeuvrable´ supersonic cruise missile when it successfully test-fired the vertical-launch version of 290-km range BrahMos from a warship in the Bay of Bengal off the Orissa coast.

“The vertical-launch version of missile was launched at 11.30 am from Indian Navy ship INS Ranvir and it…

Corot-9b:Astronomers discover new planet

 

 A planet discovered 1,500 light years from Earth is remarkably similar to those in our own solar system, according to astronomers.The Jupiter-size world, called Corot-9b, is orbiting a distant star in our Milky Way every 95 days, reports dailymail.co.uk.  Scientists believe it could become a Rosetta stone by helping them to understand other ‘exoplanets’ elsewhere in the galaxy. 

Corot-9b was an exoplanet about 80 per cent as massive…

'Desi Viagra' likely to roll out of Kerala's TBGRI

A plant-based ‘desi Viagra’ is likely to roll out of Kerala’s Tropical Botanical Garden and Research Institute (TBGRI) near here in under two years, says its director

TBGRI director A. Subramonian, principal investigator of the project undertaken for the past three years, said they were in the process of applying for a patent.

“In…

British scientists discover the secret of ageing

 The secret to ageing appears to have been solved by British scientists, bringing new hope to  next step in fighting age related diseases, such as diabetes and heart disease. The international team of researchers based Newcastle University have reportedly unlocked the secret as to how and why living cells grow old by discovering the…

Researchers Discover Plant "Thermometer" Gene

It will help scientists  to develop weatherproof crops

Plants are extremely sensitive to temperature changes in their environment. They can even detect changes of as little as one degree Celsius. Just how they do so has puzzled scientists until now. New research has uncovered a “thermometer gene” that not only helps plants…

World's first prototype unbreakable pint glasses Unveiled

British Home Secretary Alan Johnson unveils the world’s first prototype unbreakable pint glass in central London, Britain 04 February 2010. Two revolutionary prototype pint glasses designed to reduce injuries caused by some 87,000 glass attacks each year were unveiled by the Home Secretary in London 04 February. The iconic British pint glass has…