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FUEGO The Fire Spotting Satellite: A Tool For Firefighters

October 24, 2013March 28, 2014 Pooja Kashyap

It’s been quite a sometime since scientists were working towards obtaining insights and control over the occurrences and patterns of global wildfire. As per a research reported by Clark University geographers, carbon emissions from fires have escalated tremendously, between 1996 and 2008 is 2.4 times as much as what burned between 1984 and 1995. So in order to resolve the problem, scientists thought of having a dedicated geostationary satellite. Such technology would also help in averting catastrophes like Arizona’s Yarnell Fire, which killed nearly 19 Firefighters in US this summer.…

Carbonated Meteorite Hints At Presence of Carbon Dioxide on Mars

October 23, 2013 Pooja Kashyap

Planets scientists’ have discovered carbonation in a meteorite that landed on earth, US to be more specific, in late back 1931. Meteorite study suggests that it must be 3,000 years old and is carried off from the surface of Mars. This asserts that the surface on Mars must be loaded with carbon dioxide, which had happened not more than 3 to 4 billion years ago. Researchers still have no argument which supports the reason for its current absence. However, they have postulated several reasons that might have lead to the…

Bringing the Woolly Mammoth Back to Life

October 21, 2013March 16, 2014 Wa'd Abuzurayk

Having the Asian Elephant as a close relative, the long extinct woolly mammoth now has hope to come back to life. Scientists are studying the possibility of having hybrid animals give birth to an animal that resembles the woolly mammoth. Although it might sound like a remotely possible science fiction movie, the actual theoretical basis for the work is there. The first step in the process is creating the genetic map of the woolly mammoth (i.e., genome mapping). Reportedly, work in this area has already taken place, as researchers have…

Get Brainwashed, Get Some Sleep

October 20, 2013May 31, 2014 Wa'd Abuzurayk

A recent study has managed to unlock an important mystery of brain chemistry during sleep. The said study published in Science Magazine found that the brain cleans itself from toxins while a person sleeps. The research team suggested that inability to get rid of toxins may be related to certain brain disorders.

Magneto-electric Nanoparticles Now Facilitators Of Drug Delivery

October 19, 2013October 19, 2013 Pooja Kashyap

An army of nanoparticles in conjugation with magnetic field would be attacking the cancer cells in a process involving healing ovarian tumor. Researchers at Florida International University (FIU) have come up with an innovative solution of curing ovarian cancer via Magneto-electric Nanoparticles (MENs). The FIU team confirmed that using MENs technique will facilitate Taxol, the chemotherapy drug, to completely wipe off the cells responsible for the growth of tumor that to without affecting the healthy ovarian cells unlike before.

Aluminum Studs Replacing Flat Solar Panels To Increase Efficiency

October 19, 2013November 20, 2013 Pooja Kashyap

Architectural framework for capturing solar energy has been done using layers of materials one over the other. It has been an expensive module to work upon. So in order to reduce the overall cost, the number of layers has been restricted, which lowered its total efficiency level. In order to counter act this problem, researchers came up with a solution according to which, the effectiveness of panels can be increased upto 22% by using aluminum studs on the plane surface of the material that’ll be exposed to the sun light.…

Are Black Holes doorways To Other Universes?

October 17, 2013 Pooja Kashyap

Black holes are one of those flabbergasted phenomena of universe that research is still being done on the subject. Gravitational pull is what keep the things moving on earth but with a huge amount of power we can escape the gravity and can move around like in space ships, rockets etc.. However, this is not the case with black holes, density of the object is so high that it funnels down everything that touches it perimeter, light too cannot escape it and is engulfed by the unplumbed phenomenon.

Genetic Engineering to Fight Loss of Animal Species

October 16, 2013October 16, 2013 Wa'd Abuzurayk

As increasingly more species in the animal kingdom are haunted by the ghost of extinction, scientists are researching on some pretty drastic interventions to reserve threatened life. After its successful use on plants, facilitated adaptation through genetic engineering is considered as a practical option for now. In a recent article of mine, A Spotlight on Evolution, I shed light on environmental changes causing Bonbos to move and get redistributed into new places due to anthropogenic environmental changes, which significantly affected their behavior. New research is now focusing on moving genes…

Robo Raven, Bird That Relies On Solar Energy

October 16, 2013March 27, 2014 Pooja Kashyap

After the humanoid robots, we would now we witnessing the robotic bird. This robo raven is very much similar to the real birds in the sense that it can control its wing motion due to which it is able to perform similar aerobatics like back flips and dives. Phenomena that was not possible with the mechanical birds before. Precision of the machine is so accurate that birds in the area could be seen diving and attacking from above with their talons. Other birds including seagulls could be seen lining up…

Internet Goes Underwater: Deep Sea Wireless Concept

October 16, 2013March 16, 2014 Pooja Kashyap

Tentacles of internet are now advancing towards the ocean bed, a realm that is untouched by open wireless. Researchers from the University at Buffalo are working on the concept of deep-sea internet. I am saying working as they are still laboring on its feasibility. The team envision that the underwater wireless network would give control in detecting the tsunami, natural gas exploration, surveillance, keeping a check on pollution and similar other disturbances.

Robots In Manned Cosmonautics Envision Scientists

October 11, 2013October 16, 2013 Pooja Kashyap

Propelling robots in manned cosmonautics is one of the visions, which the scientists are working upon. After NASA’s R2, Russia is busy designing their Robonaut, the SAR-400. Within the next few years, we would be witnessing SAR-400 stepping into the ISS. Like R2, aim of SAR-400 too would be to solve repair and maintenance issues on the ISS. Talking about the physical structures, both the bots are in form of a robotic torso with no legs of course making it easier to fix to a crane on the ISS.

A New Scenario to the Cat Mouse Age Old War

October 7, 2013October 13, 2013 Wa'd Abuzurayk

If you ever happen to see a tiny mouse walking by a vicious street cat acting all confident and fearless, keep in mind that this mouse may not be genuinely courageous, but instead, is most probably infected with a parasite. New findings suggest that a Toxoplasma gondii parasitic infection in mice could make them permanently fearless of cats. Toxoplasma gondii is an obligate, intracellular, parasitic protozoan that causes the disease toxoplasmosis. Toxoplasma gondii is capable of infecting virtually all warm blodded animals.

Self Assembling Modular Robots: The Future Of Robotics

October 4, 2013October 14, 2013 Pooja Kashyap

Modular bot will be the new dimension in the field of Robotics. Unlike the conventional scheme of robots, the modular bots are cube and without any external moving part. Researchers behind the discovery have named each as M-Block. Scientists of MIT, John Romanishin, Daniela Rus and postdoc Kyle Gilpin are going to present a paper describing their new robots at the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems.

Animals’ Communication: Few More Secrets Revaled

October 2, 2013October 13, 2013 Wa'd Abuzurayk

A better understanding of the world of animals means a better understanding of the smartest mammals found so far- Humans. Recent research force has been focused on understanding animals’ means of communication amongst themselves. In one study, Scientists Rachel Morrison and Dianna Reiss of the City University of New York found that the cotton-top tamarins (Saguinus oedipus) are able to whisper to members of their own species when approached by what they may consider as possible predators. It was discovered that these cute small-sized monkeys tend to use “low amplitude signaling”…