Science & Technology
Monday, 20 May 2013
CUPPING a tiny, translucent eel in the palm of his hand, New York environmental researcher Chris Bowser shook his head in amazement. "This is worth about one dollar," he said.As every spring, baby eels big black eyes at the end of bodies...
HONG KONG saw its first electric taxis hit the streets on Saturday in a step towards reducing the city's high levels of roadside pollution.The 45 bright red cars were launched by Chinese electric vehicle producer BYD, which is partly backed by US...
THE hunt for an HIV vaccine has gobbled up US$8 billion (around $10.07 billion) in the past decade, and the failure of the most recent efficacy trial has delivered yet another setback to 26 years of efforts.With the next attempts expected to be...
Saturday, 18 May 2013
WATER from the world's shrinking glaciers was responsible for almost a third of the rise in sea levels between 2003 and 2009, new research showed Thursday. A study published in the journal Science revealed that researchers had analysed data gleaned...
US RESEARCHERS have reported a breakthrough in stem cell research, describing how they have turned human skin cells into embyronic stem cells for the first time. The method described Wednesday by Oregon Health and Science University scientists in...
Friday, 17 May 2013
GOOGLE Glass was a common sight Wednesday as software savants here shared visions of games, weather reports, news and more delivered to the Internet-linked eyewear.Many of the 6,000 developers attending an annual Google I/O event in San Francisco...
GOOGLE on Wednesday rolled out a music service for smartphones and tablets powered by its free Android software, in a challenge to streaming radio firms such as Pandora and Spotify.The launch of Google Play All Access came at the kickoff of a packed...
AUSTRALIA said it was pushing for a ban Thursday of any commercial use of a pioneering technique to reduce the impacts of climate change by "fertilising" the world's oceans with iron, warning of significant risks. Environment Minister Tony...
Thursday, 16 May 2013
A MELT of ice on Greenland and Antarctica is likely to be less severe than expected this century, limiting sea level rise to a maximum of 69cm (27 inches), an international study said on Tuesday.Even so, such a rise could dramatically change coastal...
A NEW supplement claims it can increase the number of circulating adult stem cells in your body by up to four million.Stem cells you can ingest?Not exactly. But this supplement claims it can increase the number of circulating adult stem cells in...
Wednesday, 15 May 2013
THE hordes are rising. A cicada invasion is imminent in the US, with millions of the large cricket-like insects poised to emerge from the earth after 17 years lying in wait.The first of the bugs that are expected to blanket the US east coast have...
NFC stands for near-field communication, a short-range wireless communication technology that enables the exchange of data between devices over about a 10cm distance.In certain countries, including Brunei Darussalam, NFC has already been used to...
WITH new Android smartphones coming out recently and Google I/O 2013 currently going on this week, it's easy to forget the device that really started the whole smartphone revolution.Love it or hate it, you won't be carrying your shiny new...
A SINGLE meal at a North American restaurant may contain more than half the calories the average person needs for the whole day, according to research published Monday in a leading US medical journal.Researchers from the University of Toronto...
AN ORPHANED polar bear cub that arrived at the Alaska Zoo two months ago will soon depart for a new adventure: meeting another young cub at the Buffalo Zoo. Kali made his final Alaska zoo appearance Monday. He will be flown by UPS from...
ONLINE payments company PayPal is not alone in its drive to replace traditional web security protocols with biometric data or physical tokens.According to the latest research from Nuance Communications, the voice and language technology company, 85...
DURING His Majesty's birthday last July, The Brunei Times started its Multimedia desk and an iMac has been used for editing purposes via Final Cut Pro.An iMac is a device you should never trust to be your workhorse because after less than a year...
A NEW Indian social networking site is becoming quite the rage, adding more than three million users every month in an expanding market seen as vital to the growth of such established sites as Facebook.On WorldFloat.com, users can do everything they...
NFC technology is most prevalent in smartphones but it is also being implemented in an increasing number of products, from toys to HDTVs.Here's a list of products with built-in NFC which you may already have in your home.HDTVs and camerasMost new...
Tuesday, 14 May 2013
EVERY time Los Angeles exhales, odd-looking gadgets in the mountains above the city trace the invisible puffs of carbon dioxide, methane and other greenhouse gases that waft skyward. Halfway around the globe, similar contraptions atop the...
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