One minute electron can restore sunburn, claims research

Most people might be aware of only the superficial symptoms of sunburn, but the real truth looks bitter. The latter is most likely to cause cancers and other skin infections too.Ohio State University researchers have finally been able to comprehend the procedure by which an enzyme resurrects sun-impaired DNA. They found that the process is paradoxical to basic stances of the technique biological mechanisms exploit to restore sunburn. This awareness may pave way to development of medicines...

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First Trojan asteroid circling sun in Earth's orbit discovered

AP FRIENDLY NEIGHBOUR: This artist's concept provided by NASA illustrates the first known Earth Trojan asteroid, discovered by NEOWISE, the asteroid-hunting portion of NASA's WISE mission. The asteroid is shown in gray and its extreme orbit is shown in green. Earth's orbit around the sun is indicated by blue dots. The objects are not drawn to scale.NASA’s Wide—field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) mission has discovered a long—hidden companion of the Earth — the first Trojan asteroid circling...

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BlackBerry Bold Touch 9900 to Hit Indian Market in August

There is good news for smartphone lovers, the Research in Motion (RIM) has announced to launch the new BlackBerry Bold Touch 9900 in India in the month of August. It has been told that the new BlackBerry will be sported by 2.8-inch VGA capacitive touchscreen with a resolution of 640 x 480 and 287ppi. Moreover, the device is powered with BlackBerry OS 7, which is the latest version of the RIM's OS.Recently, many mobile manufacturers have launched new mobiles with the pursuit of attracting more customers....

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Internet Explorer users are dumb

Do you use Microsoft's Internet Explorer to browse the web? If yes, your IQ level is likely to be lower than those who use Chrome and Firefox, a new study has shown.A company called AptiQuant, a self-proclaimed “world leader in the field of online psychometric testing,” tested the IQs of users and grouped the results according to which browser respondents used.The study found that users of Chrome, Firefox, Safari and Opera were all slightly above average in IQ test results, but Microsoft Internet...

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Now, nano-sized batteries to power mobiles!

WASHINGTON: An Indian-origin scientist-led team in the US has packagedlithium ion batteries into asingle nanowire, which they claim could soon be a rechargeable power source for new generations ofnanoelectronics. Prof Pulickel Ajayan and colleagues at Rice University claim their creation is as small as such devices can possibly get, in their research published in American Chemical Society journal 'Nano Letters'. In their research, the scientists tested two versions of their battery. The...

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Crowd Welcomes Home, Thanks Final Shuttle Crew

It may have been the final big official event of the last space shuttle mission, but a welcome-home and thank-you party for the crew of Atlantis Friday wasn't dwelling on any sad ending.Despite pending layoffs and triple-digit temperatures, it was a hopeful attitude that filled an airplane hangar with no air conditioning for the traditional welcome home for the shuttle crew. What wasn't traditional was the size of the crowd — in the thousands — and that this was the last shuttle crew, a team that...

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Mars rover aims for deep crater

Nasa's next Mars rover will be aimed at one of the planet's deepest craters.MSL-Curiosity weighs almost a tonne and is the size of a Mini Cooper.It will carry instruments to study whether Mars had the conditions in the past to support microbial life.The US space agency has selected an equatorial depression called Gale Crater to investigate that question.The $2.5bn rover will launch from Florida in November.It should touch-down at the Red Planet in August 2012.Gale Crater is about 155km in diameter,...

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Scientists step closer to creating test tube intelligence

Scientists have now taken a major step towards creating artificial intelligence, not in a robot or a silicon chip, but in a test tube.Researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have created a circuit of interacting molecules that can recall memories based on incomplete DNA patterns, just like the human brain.“The brain is incredible. It allows us to recognise patterns of events, form memories, make decisions, and take actions,” says Lulu Qian, senior post—doctoral scholar in...

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How to Restore OS X Lion Via the Internet

Sure, Apple OS X Lion (read our OS X Lion Review) is a frisky little feline now, but what happens in a year or two when your permissions are as tangled as a ball of string and your computer's lost the spring in its step? Or worse, what happens when, one day, your computer simply won't boot? These things happen, and they tend to strike at the most inopportune times.With previous versions of Mac OS X, you could boot off the install disk and run Disk Utility to repair or reinstall the operating...

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Two fake Apple stores closed in China

Those fake Apple stores in China that created so much buzz in recent days have only just come under investigation by authorities in the city of Kunming, and now it's being reported that two of the stores have been ordered to close for lack of the proper business licenses. Three of the five unauthorized Apple stores in Kunming are said to remain open.Reuters reports that Chinese investigators also determined the products being sold in the faux Apple stores were genuine...

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