New Delhi : Nobel Prize-winning physicist Professor Stephen Hawking, who died on Wednesday, always warned against Artificial Intelligence (AI) and its growing dominance over humanity. “Earth is becoming too small and humanity is bound to self-destruct, with AI replacing us as the dominant being on the planet,” he told wired.com in November 2017. “I fear […]
New York : To get the accuracy of cuff devices and the convenience of mobile device apps, a team led by an Indian-origin researcher has created a new app and hardware to measure blood pressure. The technology, details of which were published in the journal Science Translational Medicine along with a video, also includes a […]
Sydney : Australian researchers have developed a drone capable of measuring a person’s breathing and heart rate from 60 metres away, an advance that may help during humanitarian crises. The researchers led by Javaan Chahl from the University of South Australia (UniSA), showed that the drone was able to measure a subject’s heart beat by […]
Washington : If you want your name to travel through the Sun’s atmosphere, braving brutal heat and radiation conditions, here comes your chance. NASA is inviting people around the world to submit their names online to be placed on a microchip aboard its historic solar probe launching this summer. “This probe will journey to a […]
New York : There was nothing around before the Big Bang, according to renowned British physicist Stephen Hawking. Speaking during a TV talk show “Star Talk”, aired on Sunday on National Geographic Channel, Hawking propounded his theory on what happened before the universe came into existence. Hawking’s theory lies upon the assumption that the universe […]
New York : Astronomers have discovered three small super-Earth planets orbiting the star which lies at a relatively close distance of 100 light-years from our solar system. This “unusual family of super-Earths” around the star, named GJ9827, was spotted by researchers at Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) in the US. The star, GJ9827, is one […]
New York : An experimental HIV antibody tested on a group of monkeys showed to be effective as it suppressed the virus for nearly six months without additional treatment, researchers have found. The findings lend a clue to strategies that attempt to achieve sustained, drug-free viral remission in people living with HIV, the Xinhua reported. […]
Washington : Using a radio antenna not much larger than a refrigerator, astronomers have detected for the first time a signal from stars emerging in the early universe. The researchers discovered that ancient suns were active within 180 million years of the Big Bang, according to a study published in the journal Nature. The astronomers […]
Berlin : The moon will have its first 4G cell phone network in 2019, the network builder Vadafone has said. The German branch of the multinational telecommunication company has teamed up with Nokia to do the mission, London-headquartered Vadafone said in a statement on Tuesday. The network is to support a private lunar rover mission […]
Bengaluru : Indian scientists have developed a supercritical Carbon Dioxide (CO2) Brayton test facility at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) here to generate clean energy from power plants, including solar thermal, the premier institute said on Thursday. Touted to be the first in the country, the Brayton cycle test loop facility was unveiled by […]
