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Washington, May 16 : MIT researchers claim they have boosted the power output of one type of fuel cell by more than 50 percent through technology that could help these environmentally friendly energy storage devices find a much wider market, especially in portable electronics.
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By Jay Dougherty, Washington, May 16: Bad things can happen to good data. Hard drives can crash. Memory cards can be formatted accidentally. CDs or DVDs on which important files are stored can become scratched and unreadable. But there are steps you can take to try to retrieve damaged data.
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New Delhi, May 15 : The Union government on Thursday decided to set up a Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB) to promote basic scientific research.
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London, May 15 : Leakage of credit card and bank account details on the internet has been a regular scenario, but the latest entrant in this virtual world of identity frauds involves hackers tapping into voice-over IP telephony accounts.
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London, May 15 : Spanish biologists have unearthed evidence that deep-sea whales, which are known to be slow and energy saving creatures, are indeed the cheetahs of the ocean.
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Washington, May 15 : Based on an assessment of the global agriculture scenario, experts have come to the conclusion that genetically modified (GM) crops are not a solution for poverty, hunger or climate change.
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Washington, May 15 : Can you imagine a car being propelled by a fuel created from parts of discarded computers? Well, a team of Romanian and Turk researchers believes that it may just be possible someday.
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Washington, May 15 : A new research has suggested that carbon-coated nanomagnets could serve as a safe and effective hyperthermia agent, targeting and destroying cancerous cells.
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Washington, May 15 : In a study on peer-relationships of teens in school, researchers found that ethnic minority teens were less keen to hang out with crowds made up of their ethnic peers.
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Washington, May 15 : A team of scientists has made a breakthrough in capturing microorganisms that are known to dramatically reduce the oceanic emission of methane into the atmosphere.
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Washington, May 15 : A new research has indicated that restoring fish populations such as exotic salmon and trout to the Great Lakes in America might adversely affect the health of Sea Gulls, demonstrating that fishery management actions can sometimes have very unexpected outcomes.
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Washington, May 15 : Soon, doctors will be able to monitor illnesses and injuries remotely through compact, wireless and power efficient body sensors, thanks to scientists at Queen's University Belfast (QUB), who have developed new types of antenna that get round some limitations.
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Washington, May 15 : The re-examination of a giant hole in the cosmos that shocked astrophysicists last year has indicated that the hole might not exist after all.
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Washington, May 15 : A student of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute has come up with two innovations that may vastly improve magnetic data storage, and sense extremely low level magnetic fields in everything from ink on counterfeit currency to tissue in the human brain and heart.
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Washington, May 15 : Scientists from Durham University in the UK will use robots to explore the depths of the Atlantic Ocean to study the growth of underwater volcanoes that build the Earth's crust.
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Washington, May 15 : A collaborative study by experts at Eindhoven University of Technology and Fraunhofer Institute has helped improve the efficiency of solar cells by more than one per cent.
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Melbourne, May 15 : A leading US psychologist has patented a bra for the bum, which according to her, restores pertness to sagging buttocks.
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Washington, May 15 : Electrical engineers have created experimental solar cells spiked with nanowires that could lead to highly efficient thin-film solar cells of the future.
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Washington, May 15 : As a concerned parent you might feel like shouting OMG! (Oh, My God!) when you see your teenage kid submerged in the newest lingo in town, Instant Messaging (IM), but here's something that certainly will cheer many more like you - a new study suggests that the online shorthand actually represents "an expansive new linguistic renaissance".
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Washington, May 15 : Scientists have determined that poles on Jupiter's moon Europa may have wandered by almost 90 degrees, an extreme shift that suggests the existence of an internal liquid ocean beneath the icy crust, which may host life.
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Washington, May 15 : A new study has shed light on heroin addiction, by identifying a factor that may play a key role in the development of the habit, by manipulating the adenosine A2A receptor, which regulates the brain's 'reward pathway'.
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Washington, May 15 : A new NASA-led study has shown that human-caused climate change has made an impact on a wide range of Earth's natural systems, including permafrost thawing, plants blooming earlier across Europe, and lakes declining in productivity in Africa.
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Washington, May 15 : An international team of astronomers has found the youngest known supernova remnant in the Milky Way, which will help in understanding how often supernovae explode in our galaxy.
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London, May 14: In this nano age 'small' is in. But it is hard to believe that the foremost model of today's handy mobile sets was the size of a dustbin lid and had a range of just half a mile.
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Washington, May 14: If you consider your old computer only worth adding to environmental waste, you can heave a sigh of relief as one day it may even end up fueling your car.
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Washington, May 14 : To ensure smooth traffic flow, a group of scientists have developed new methods for determining the traffic situation across a wide area, and have refined processes that enable traffic to be optimally channelled.
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Melbourne, May 14 : The frantic "Where r u?" text message has been shown the door, thanks to the new service -which has now been introduced in Australia - that allows mobile phone users to locate their spouses and friends.
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London, May 14 : A robot system conceptualised to guard millions of biological samples in sub-zero temperatures, will be competing for the MacRobert Award this year.
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Washington, May 14 : Researchers have found the most effective seed mixture, as well as the right planting time needed for faster-growing and durable football fields.
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Washington, May 14 : Australian researchers have used a technique, DNA fingerprinting, for the first time to identify which embryos have implanted after in vitro fertilisation (IVF) and developed successfully to result in the births of healthy babies.
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Washington, May 14 : An archaeologist is going to use satellite imagery obtained from NASA to explore ancient Mexico.
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Washington, May 14 : Scientists at the Fraunhofer Institute for Production Technology IPT in Aachen have developed a new, low-priced optical component, which could boost the light output of light-emitting diodes.
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Washington, May 14 : A team from the University of Colorado (CU) at Boulder in US are going to build a 34 million dollar instrument package for a US Environmental Satellite slated for launch in 2013, which would help monitor global climate change.
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Washington, May 14 : Scientists at the Université de Montréal have completed a large survey of the network of protein complexes that orchestrate the primary processes of life.
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Washington, May 14 : Scientists have suggested that burying trees might solve the global carbon dioxide (CO2) problem.
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Washington, May 14 : Every household is filled with dozens of silicon-based electronics, whose main component is usually a silicon-based transistor.
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Washington, May 14 : Researchers from University of Akron have revealed that temperature and humidity have a major impact on gecko lizards' clinging ability.
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Washington, May 14 : Scientists have shown that the sloth's world-renowned reputation for laziness is not true after all, by finding that the medium-sized mammals, which live in rainforest canopies of South and Central America, only sleep for nine-and-a-half hours a day, six hours fewer than previously thought.
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London, May 14 : A new study has cast doubts on the origins of cosmic rays, suggesting that they might not have come from a set of giant black holes in nearby galaxies, as was claimed earlier by scientists.
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Washington, May 13 : A treasured large crystal skull believed to be 500 years old has been stolen from its perch at Kindred Spirits, a New Age store in Claremont, California.
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