The World Meteorological Organization’s State of the Climate in Asia 2024 report warns that the region is warming nearly twice as fast as the global average, driving more extreme weather and posing serious threats to lives, ecosystems, and economies. In 2024, Asia experienced its warmest or second warmest year on …
French company Sopro of Marseille has come up with an electronic device that helps singers improve their vocal techniques. The new gadget produces a musical note which the singers then try to imitate. Meanwhile, their vocal cords are illuminated by a lamp which flashes at a rate that matches the …
IF YOU find being buried under the mice, keyboards and all the other computer paraphernalia a little cumbersome then take heart, because you are not alone. Irritated by a clutter of similar electronic gadgets an his desk, a researcher at the Tokyo-based Sony Computer Laboratories devised a quick and easy …
VEHICLES and buildings could soon inform us if they are feeling up to the mark or not. Scientists in Japan have developed a paint that can 'sense' vibrations that warn of impending structural damage. Shigenori Egusa at the Japanese Atomic Research Institute and his colleagues from Kansai Paint Company made …
WINNOWING, the process of separating quality grains from chaff, is a crucial process in the cultivation of paddy. The traditional way of winnowing is making the dried grains fall from a height using shovels and a sieve. The quality grains which are heavy fall vertically while the weightless chaff and …
So you always wanted to talk to your pet dog, but did not know how. Cheer up for now there is a way. Experts say some animals prick up their ears to get messages across. Taking a cue from them, Karala Baumann of Dussledorf, Germany, thinks that humans could communicate …
IT is an example of how innocent civilians pay the price for strategies of politicians and war-mongers. Unexploded landmines - more than 100 million of them - left behind by wars and civil strives claim thousands of lives and injure hundreds every year. In the recent years, these have emerged …
German automobile giant Daimler-Benz has developed a new method of casting aluminium engine blocks that cuts carbon dioxide emissions by 36 per cent. Traditionally, the block is cast in a sand mould, cooled so that the sand can be removed from the cylinders, and reheated to 530oC to harden the …
The idea of aroma-emitting televi-sion sets is being extended to Websites by Ricoh of Japan, which wants to equip both television sets and computers with devices that would eject smells that will go with the programme or website that the user might have chosen. Ricoh says Web pages could carry …
GIVE it another decade, and the robot will gather enough medical knowledge in its microchips to perform complex surgeries on human patients. And the process, according to doctors and scientists, has already begun. Over a decade ago, medical experts developed something called laparoscopic surgery - in which instruments arc inserted …
SEEDSAVERS of crops worldwide face an unprecedented threat. A technology, appropriately called the 'terminator technology', has been creating waves in agricultural circles since March. So much so that it has jolted the normally somnolent agriculture ministry of the government of India into some sort of action. On July 17, minister …
Apart from telling the time, your wristwatch may soon be able to tell who you are. The layout of blood vessels, tendons and muscles in the wrist is different for each of us
about 400 years after Galileo revolutionised the study of the Universe, a telescope will be commissioned on a 2,600-metre peak in northern Chile. This will be a vast improvement on the existing telescope technology. The Very Large Telescope (vlt) will, so obviously, be the largest in the world with a …
since the discovery of high temperature superconductivity (hts) in ceramic materials in 1986, there has been a lot of debate about the applications of these revolutionary materials. Several applications have been discovered for the phenomena. But one area where there has been a roadblock is the development of wires made …
Scientists may soon develop an ultra-efficient solar panel by fabricating several layers of different coloured films. These films would harness the Sun's power in the same way as done by plants during the photosynthesis process. Plants use coloured leaves to absorb various wavelengths of sunlight and convert it into energy. …
To prevent collisions of aeroplanes with mountains, several major airlines have announced plans to install a satellite-based navigation system in the cockpits of planes. The equipment, called enhanced ground proximity warning system, uses the global positioning system of satellites to pinpoint the exact location of the plane. With this information, …
he changed the way most of us perceive popular entertainment and went on to become a teen phenomenon. Even today he remains an icon invoking nostalgia through his songs and films. But there is a place where Elvis Presley, the uncrowned King of rock
it has happened to all of us: getting a finger or two trapped between a door and the door jamb. For most, it means a few moments of intense pain. Then, the incident slips out of our mind until, at some other time and some other place, it happens again. …
computers are becoming "literate". Using a recently developed software, home computers will now be able to access your writing skills. However, getting rid of critics might just take a little more time. Teachers benefit the most: grading student essays is far from getting tedious, say the developers of the software. …
