Chennai, March 7 (IANS) Leading microphones and headphones brand Sennheiser will popularise actor-singer Farhan Akhtar’s social campaign MARD (Men Against Rape and Discrimination). It will redesign Farhan’s Sennheiser-SKM 2000 microphone to embody his cause with the ‘MARD moustache’ design. Akhtar conceived MARD after an incident in August 2012 where a Mumbai lawyer was sexually assaulted and […]
Beijing, March 7 (IANS) China will build its first internet museum to chronicle the development of the net in the increasingly wired country, China’s internet network watchdog said Friday. The museum will show the history and fruits of China’s Internet development, with some of the exhibition open to the public in early April, Xinhua reported citing […]
New Delhi, March 7 (IANS) President Pranab Mukherjee Friday inaugurated the Annual Innovation Exhibition featuring innovative technologies at Rashtrapati Bhavan here, an official statement said. Since 2010, the exhibition is being organised every year at the sports ground of the president estate by the National Innovation Foundation (NIF). The exhibition features 41 innovative technologies, including seven […]
New York, March 7 (IANS) The anxiety-relief effects of marijuana are well known but scientists have found for the first time, how the controlled use of the drug may help people in distress. Sachin Patel, a professor of psychiatry and molecular physiology at Tennessee-based Vanderbilt University identified cannabinoid receptors in the brain through which marijuana exerts […]
London, March 7 (IANS) Do you have a habit of urinating while swimming? Control your urge as this may trigger respiratory problems. Urine mixed with chlorine, used to disinfect pools, can cause chemical reactions that have been linked to respiratory problems in swimmers, a research said. Chlorine reacts with a number of chemicals found in human […]
New York, March 7 (IANS) For those who were born Oct 29, 1969, the date is quite memorable. It was on this day that internet too came to life. Now, the room from where the first message was sent, only to be crashed after sending just two letters, has been opened as a functional computer lab. […]
London, March 7 (IANS) Safe money withdrawal from Automated Teller Machines (ATM) is possible via Google Glass – a wearable computer device, according to an IT expert. Dominique Schroder, assistant professor of cryptographic algorithms at the Saarland University in Germany, now proposes to combine Google Glass with cryptographic methods and techniques from automated image analysis to […]
New York, March 7 (IANS) In a never-seen-before incident in the asteroid belt, NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has recorded break-up of an asteroid into as many as 10 smaller pieces. “This is a rock, and seeing it fall apart before our eyes is pretty amazing,” said David Jewitt of the University of California at Los Angeles. […]
Washington, March 7 (IANS) The NASA scientists have discovered how dense particles near earth can send a plume up through space to help protect against incoming solar particles during certain space weather events. In certain circumstances, a pool of dense particles normally circling earth, deep inside the magnetosphere, can extend a long arm out to meet […]
Toronto, March 7 (IANS) Do you purchase energy drinks for growing children as these claim to increase alertness, improve mood and enhance mental and physical energy? Think again. A new report finds that consumption of energy drinks among teenagers may be linked with poor mental health and substance abuse. The paper also found that high-school students […]