Month: December 2013

Infant Boys Prefer Dolls Over Other Mechanical Toys

Neha Shukla

We all firmly believe that girls like to play with dolls and boy prefer car, truck, gun and so on. But in a recent study it was found that infant boys like dolls over other mechanical toys like cars. The researchers from the University of Western Sydney conducted the study using a technology known as state-of-the-art eye-tracker. The study revealed that the infant baby of 5 months stared at the dolls for longer duration than the trucks and showed an inclination towards playing with dolls over cars or boy like…

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Einstein, The Life and Times by Ronald W. Clark

Pooja Kashyap

One of the best biographies, I have read so far, although I had to re-read some of Einstein’s concepts to make myself clear for the next move. The progression from one part to the other is like moving a higher level with respect to Einstein’s journey and getting to know more of him at personal level. Before reading this book, I have always wondered had Einstein not discovered the theory of relativity, what would have happened to physics. But the answer wasn’t too difficult to find, there would have been…

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Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand

Pooja Kashyap

Atlas Shrugged is Ayn Rand’s magnum opus. Society where we are brought up determines our thought process and hence instills the foundations of rights and wrongs in our life. But there are people although very few in numbers who are not conditioned by the society. They have their own rules and dictate their life accordingly. They believe in doing their work and are not affected by what others have to say. And these are termed as ‘Prime Movers’. World cannot move ahead with prime movers yet it treats them cruelly.…

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First Artificial Leg That Reads Brain Signal To Walk

Pooja Kashyap

Groundbreaking research conducted at RIC has found a way of controlling an artificial leg via brain. Researchers have come up with first of its own kind bionic, mind controlled leg, taking bionics to the next level. This advancement in medical field is still in its testing phase. Although, mind controlled bionic arm has already been available to amputees so far. As per Zac Vawter, 32, who in a bike accident lost his leg 4 years back says, there’s nothing special that he had to learn like giving some tugs or…

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Video Games Helps In Boosting Grey Matter Of The Brain

Neha Shukla

There is good news for all the folks who are addicted to video games and find it difficult to leave it. Researchers in a recent study found that playing video games could actually help in boosting the performance of the brain. They found that the person playing video games on an average of 30 minutes daily for 2 months have shown an increase in the grey matter of the brain areas involved in controlling the spatial consciousness, memory, and critical thinking. 

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Sun Does Not Influence The Climate Change

Neha Shukla

Sun is an enormous source of energy and was considered the prime factor impacting the temperature of our planet Earth. Conventionally, cold and warm climate were considered to be the direct outcome of changes in the solar activity. However, researchers have denied this theory rather claim that the fluctuation in heat from sun does not drastically influence the climate of earth. 

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Mars Acting Like An Enormous Gas Pump

Pooja Kashyap

Recent research claims that planet Mars might act as an enormous gas pump with its low atmospheric pressure and porous soil making the assertion strong enough to prove the hypothesis. Space scientists have already advocated the constant activity that is going on the surface like dust storms and drifting dunes. And now, the new study holds the certainty of having a similar kind of motion underneath the surface as well. With this assertion, the planet becomes the solar system’s first such body in which continuous pumping on a massive scale…

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Understanding The Reason Behind Zebra Stripes

Neha Shukla

Since the time of Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace, researchers were always curious to find out why the zebra evolved to have coat with such stripes, which does not help to camouflage in the environment like the stripes of other animals do. There are many theories supporting the function like signaling during social communication or disguising during the dawn or dusk time in tall grasses. The most convincing reason of all, supporting the stripes of the zebra says it was evolved to dazzle the big predators as well as…

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An Element Of Aging In Mice Can Be Reversed: A Research

Neha Shukla

Today various beauty treatments and products are available, which claims to slow down the effect of aging and thus prolonging youthfulness. Recently a team of researchers from Harvard Medical School, the National Institute on Aging and the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia has discovered an element of aging, which can be reversed at molecular level. 

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An Interview With Efrat Gommeh From Israel: Devoted To Design

Pooja Kashyap

Today, we would like to introduce our readers with the highly talented and vivacious Efrat Gommeh, all the way from kibbutz Mishmarot, Israel. Efrat holds a master’s degree, cum laude, in Design Management. Along with that, she also gathered knowledge about Waste Management and strives to find design oriented solutions to the environment problem. She is passionate about leading processes, which create sustainable advantages to organizations. Her specialties include product development, research, design management, CAD and Visualization using Solidworks and 3ds Max. There’s still more to come from one of…

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Silver Birch Trees Found Trapping Environmental Particulate Matter

Neha Shukla

Trees play an important role in earthly habitation like providing oxygen, giving food, shade, conserving water, preserving soil from erosion and the list goes on. Recently scientists have found one more equally significant role to add in the existing list. In a recent observation, silver birch tree was found absorbing the harmful particulate matter of various sizes present in the air, which can also be inhaled by us. The trees are competent in absorbing about 50% of the tiny particulate matter generated by the automobiles. These particulate matters originate from…

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Computer Noises Now A Gateway To RSA Key Extraction

Pooja Kashyap

Since the inception of RSA public-key encryption in 1977, it has acted as a sentinel guarding online privacy and verified authenticity across the globe while using computers, gadgets and web browsers. But now it seems, like any other product cycle, this one too has reached the platform and soon enough it might require a revamp. A team of three researchers in Israel has claimed their ability to crack 4096-bit RSA encryption keys by listening to internal computer components that produces shrilling noises. Researchers said that they studied the noises produced…

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Inkjet Technology To Print Eye Cell

Neha Shukla

For the first time a team of scientists from UK has pioneered in printing the eye cell taken from the adult eye using the new inkjet printing technology. Earlier scientists were able to print embryonic stem cells but could not create the delicate adult cells. Using the technology scientists now hope to fabricate tissue grafts made up of different cells taken from the retina of adult human eye to cure blindness or to create any replacement for damaged part or organ. 

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