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Silicene May Be The Next Best Thing After Graphene
When Graphene was discovered a few years ago it was hailed as the next big thing for the manufacturing of computing and electrical devices, mainly because of its single atom layer of Carbon that is known as the ‘most conductive material in the entire known universe’.
So if Graphene is all this special and great why has not been incorporated yet? Well to put it in simple words, Graphene...
8 Consumer Items Facebook Generation Wouldn’t Purchase
We all know how drastically lifestyles have changed in the past decade or two. Internet has brought upon a revolution all the while giving birth to a new culture adopted by a new generation. All those born between 1980 and 1999 differ in their buying choices as compared to the older generations and there are many reasons for it, one primary explanation is their exposure to technology and the internet.
In...
Dental X-Rays More Likely To Cause Most Common Brain Cancer [STUDY]
Cancer researchers might have hit upon a link between the most common form of brain cancer, the meningioma, and a certain type of dental X-Ray. Researchers have found that people diagnosed with meningiomas are twice as likely to have undergone so-called bitewing X-rays — the kind that tend to hurts alot when the dentist makes you bite down on a hard, pointy piece of cardboard with your molars.
Many...
Scientists May Have Found An Achilles Heel For Many Forms Of Cancer
Great news from the world of medical science comes as scientists have stepped closer in curing cancer. They have developed a drug that can shrink or eliminate all kinds of cancers may it be breast, ovarian, brain, liver, colon, bladder, or prostate tumor. The drug is in its trial phases and success has been achieved in initial tests conducted on mice.
The research that led to this drug began a decade...
Android App Advertisements Could Be Harmful [STUDY]
Android has taken a lot of criticism about insecure apps and malicious bits and bytes. Once again a study carried out in North Carolina State University has pointed out a major security loop hole present in Android apps, rather the ad libraries that these applications use to earn money are a point of major concern.
Free Android apps earn a fee every time some one clicks on the ads that are displayed...
Scientists Discover A Completely New Human Species In China
A weird piece of latest news suggests that we may have to make an addition to our family tree, and a new lineage in the human species might have been found. Fossils that were discovered in 1979 in west China have been completely analyzed now and scientists believe that they are from an undiscovered human race that could be 11500- 14500 years old, just before the dawn of agriculture era.
Fossils belonging...
New Nanotechnology ‘Power Felt’ Can Convert Body Heat Into Power For Charging iPhones/iPods
Seems like the battery version of the humans seen in Matrix, generating electricity for the machines isn’t that far fetched. PhD student Corey Hewit from Center of Nanotechnology and Molecular Materials, Wake Forest University has devised an easy way of harnessing human body heat and converting it into electrical energy to charge our devices on the go.
The new thermoelectric material called...
Better Sleep Today Makes For Better Memory Later
Do you have bad sleeping habits? Working late nights, partying with friends or just lying awake in bed staring at the ceiling ? Then you may need to reconsider them and have a proper sleep as suggested by latest research that has found bad sleeping habits to become the cause of memory loss at a later stage in life.
A study conducted by Yo-El Ju, a MD at Washington University School of Medicine in...
Gartner: Apple Is The Largest Smartphone Vendor In The World
Stamford, Connecticut based researcher Gartner Inc. said in their Q4 report today that Apple has become the third largest seller of mobile phones overall and has snatched the number one spot from Samsung in the smartphone market based on the billowing sales of its iPhone in the fourth quarter.
Almost a quarter of the world’s smartphone sales consisted of Apple’s iPhone, increasing its...
3D Panorama View To Be Offered By Virtual Reality Contact Lenses
Contact lenses that aid in improving eyesight with the help of MP 3D Panorama images are mostly being designed with funding from military. A new research has stated that, for people who do not want to rely on contact lenses can go for lenses that will be directly implanted within the eye.
With the passing time, nature of video displays have become complex for everyone starting from general public to...