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ICARUS experiment at Gran Sasso laboratory reports new measurement of neutrino time of flight consistent with the speed of light The ICARUS experiment at the Italian Gran Sasso laboratory has today reported a new measurement of the time of flight of neutrinos from CERN to Gran Sasso. The ICARUS measurement, using last year’s short pulsed beam from CERN, indicates that [...]
Today a consortium of leading IT providers and three of Europe’s biggest research centres (CERN1, EMBL2 and ESA3) announced a partnership to launch a European cloud computing platform. “Helix Nebula – the Science Cloud”, will support the massive IT requirements of European scientists, and become available to governmental organisations and industry after an initial pilot phase. The partnership is working to establish a [...]
In a paper published online today by the journal Nature, the ALPHA collaboration at CERN1 reports an important milestone on the way to measuring the properties of antimatter atoms. This follows news reported in June last year that the collaboration had routinely trapped antihydrogen atoms for long periods of time. ALPHA’s latest advance is the next important milestone on the way to [...]
Anti-depressants could also be effective in easing debilitating pain caused by osteoarthritis with fewer side-effects than traditional drugs, a study reveals. Leslie Citrome, professor of psychiatry and behavioural sciences and Amy Weiss-Citrome from New York Medical College, analysed the latest clinical evidence on duloxetine, an antidepressant approved by the FDA for use in chronic musculoskeletal pain, including osteoarthritis. “It is [...]
Anxiety heightens the sense of smell in people when it comes to sniffing out a threat or danger, a study says. The sense of smell is an essential tool to detect, locate and identify predators in the animal world. The mere presence of predator odours can evoke potent fear and anxiety responses among different species. Smells also evoke powerful emotional [...]
Scientists have warned their experiments are at risk from a shortage of Helium because the gas is being wasted on party balloons. The gas is crucial for scientists because it’s used to cool atoms to -270C to stop them vibrating, which makes investigating their nature far more straightforward. It’s also widely used in medical scanners and exotic machines such as [...]
As antibiotics are ineffective against a vast majority of sinus infections caused by viruses, they should not be used in their treatment, new guidelines released by the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) suggest. Although sinus infections are the fifth leading reason for antibiotics prescriptions, 90 to 98 percent of cases are caused by viruses, which are not affected by [...]
Astronomers have identified an extremely rare galaxy resembling an emerald-cut diamond, a shape totally unlike any other in existence. Astronomers from Australia, Germany, Switzerland and Finland discovered the rectangular shaped galaxy within a group of 250 galaxies some 70 million light years away. “In the universe around us, most galaxies exist in one of three forms: spheroidal, disc-like or lumpy [...]
Bihar plans to use photography and videography when it conducts a caste census from April 15. Rural Development Minister Nitish Mishra said Bihar will be the first state to employ such technology. Mishra told IANS that the census will be a paperless exercise as it will be done on hand-held electronic devices developed by the Bharat Electronic Development Corp. It [...]
Noise from cars, machines and other forms of human activity could affect the growth of wild flowers, trees and animals nearby, say scientists. Such noise may be harmful to some plants because of the long-term impact it has on animals that pollinate flowers and disperse seeds. Scientists made the findings in tests near the noisy gas wells of New Mexico, [...]
Scientists have identified a hair-loss protein that could potentially pave the way for a cure for male baldness. Tests were carried out on tissue from the scalps of a group of men with male pattern baldness, known as androgenic alopecia (AGA). The results showed bald areas had levels of the protein PGD2 three times higher than hairy areas, the journal [...]
The Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project’s (KNPP) first 1,000 MW unit will be ready for the atomic energy regulator’s clearance for fuel loading in two months’ time and the Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd (NPCIL) is gearing up for it, said a top official. NPCIL chairman and managing director S.K. Jain also heartily welcomed the Tamil Nadu cabinet’s decision Monday [...]
The most fearsome feature of any T. rex’s full-sized model is its array of massive flesh-ripping, bone-crushing teeth. But scientists have now discovered that beyond the obvious size difference in each tooth family in T.rex’s gaping jaw, there is considerable variation in the serrated edges of the teeth. “The varying edges, or keels, not only enabled T.rex’s very strong teeth [...]
British scientists have claimed to have decoded a secret code written on everyone’s face which gets revealed while lying. Researchers, from the University of British Columbia, have discovered five tell-tale muscle groups that control facial expressions and activate differently when we are trying to deceive, the Daily Mail reported. Psychologists based their study on over 23,000 frames of television footage [...]
A 17 ft Australian saltwater crocodile exerts the most powerful bite on earth, recorded at 3,700 pounds, beating a wild American alligator with a 2,980-pound zap, a study reveals. Greg Erickson’s lab at the Florida State University, conducting these measurements, estimates that the largest extinct crocodilians, 35 to 40-foot animals, bit at forces as high as 23,100 pounds. “If you [...]
An unusual case could tell researchers more about the genetic changes that occur when a common bacteria, normally carried without any problems, on rare occasions causes potentially life-threatening infections. Eight mutations occurred in the common bacteria Staphylococcus aureus as it turned from an innocuous resident inside one person’s nose into a fatal blood infection, an Oxford University study has found. [...]
Boosting levels of the simple compound fumarate in mice significantly reduces damage from a heart attack, an Oxford University-led study has shown. The researchers say that there should now be clinical trials in humans to see if fumarate, which comes in the form of simple pills to swallow, can reduce injury to the heart in a range of conditions. Fumarate [...]
At this year’s Oxford London Lecture, Oxford University gerontologist Professor Sarah Harper will talk about the implications of a falling birth rate coupled with rising longevity – a phenomenon affecting most countries across the globe. Speaking at the public lecture, entitled ‘The 21st Century – the last century of youth?’, Professor Harper, Director of the Oxford Institute of Population Ageing, [...]
The risk of womb rupture in pregnancy and labour is very small and lower than previously thought, according to a new Oxford University study. Most cases of womb rupture happen in women who’ve had a caesarean section before. However, the Oxford researchers found that the risks remain small even in women planning a normal birth after a previous caesarean – [...]
According to Google, around 3 percent of India’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) can be attributed to internet. Speaking Friday at the India Today Conclave, head of Google India, Rajan Anandan, claimed that despite the underdeveloped internet infrastructure in India, “3.2 percent of the GDP is due to internet”. Anandan was speaking at a session titled ‘Who will win the web’. [...]
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