Scientists from the University of Queensland and Monash University found a protein in spider venom may help protect the brain from injury after a stroke, after lab test the Hi1A protein single dose worked on rats. They travelled to Fraser Island in Australia to hunt and capture three potentially lethal Australian funnel web spiders. “…
A 32-year-old man was fatally electrocuted after charging his iPhone while taking a bath, on December 11, 2016, Ealing London. His wife discovered im with severe burns to his chest, arm and hand. He is believed to have plugged the charger into an extension cord from a nearby corridor and placed the phone on his…
US chipmaker Intel is taking over specialist and world leader in collision avoidance systems, Mobileye for $15.3bn ( £12.5bn). Mobileye, Jerusalem-based, Israeli company which develops “autonomous driving” systems. The deal is the biggest ever exit in the history of Israeli industry. Intel said that the acquisition will bring out the best-in-class technologies from both companies,…
The Project Loon team, Part of Google’s X research lab, said it was able to use machine learning to predict weather systems and they are a “Year closer” to rolling out a network with huge balloons to provide high-speed connectivity to rural areas. They have greater control over where its balloons go so that it concentrate…
Facebook Snapchat $ $ Market Capitalisation 395bn 31bn Funds Raised at IPO 166bn 3.4bn Daily Active users 1.3bn 160m Revenue 2016 27.6bn 404m Profit 2016 10.2bn -515m Snapchat investor who have given a market value of more than $30bn hope it can effectively compete with Facebook on online advertising. Evan Spiegel CEO of Snapchat…
NASA finds new solar system called Trappist-1 and three earth-sized planets orbiting a nearby star 39light years away from Earth, that may support alien life. Astronomers at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration have detected seven earth-sized planets. Thomas Zurbuchen, an Associate administrator of Nasa’s Science Mission Directorate, told a press conference in Washington “this…
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) broke the world record when it launched 104 satellites onboard on single rocket from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota, Andhra Pradesh. The satellites were launched by ISRO’s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle, earlier used in the ambitious Mars Orbiter Mission. This is first of its kind to launch…
February 11th 2017 full moon coincides with a partial penumbral lunar eclipse, which happens when the moon passes through a peripheral region of the Earth’s shadow, because the Earth is between the sun and the moon.
This month we have two eclipses- a full moon ( lunar eclipse) this Saturday 11th February 2017 and a new moon (solar eclipse) on Sunday, February 26.There are only four eclipses in total in 2017 and the other two aren’t until August. Eclipses are supercharged new and full moons. Lunar eclipses occur during full moons…
Researchers from Iowa State University discovered that biomimetic tree that mimics the branches and leaves of a cottonwood tree can generate electricity when its artificial leaves sway in the wind and allow off-grid energy harvesting. According a paper published in the journal PLOS ONE, the researchers explained that small strips of specialised plastic inside the…