Instagram Direct messaging arrives to challenge Snapchat and Whatsapp

Instagram Direct messaging arrives to challenge Snapchat and Whatsapp

  5:35:00 PM    Science Lover

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HIPSTER PHOTO SHARING SERVICE Instagram announced a messaging service called Instagram Direct on Thursday, as it looks to challenge Snapchat and Whatsapp. Rumours surfaced at the end of November claiming that Instagram was plotting a messaging service to rival send-and-delete...

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Bangkok designers draw attention for air-purifying bike idea

Bangkok designers draw attention for air-purifying bike idea

  9:18:00 PM    Science Lover

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Some observers are calling it "the photosynthesis bike." The bike of interest is only a concept, not even a prototype yet, from designers in Bangkok. Nonetheless, in concept alone, it has captured a lot if imaginations, press coverage, and even picked up an award...

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New Device Harnesses Sun and Sewage to Produce Hydrogen Fuel

New Device Harnesses Sun and Sewage to Produce Hydrogen Fuel

  9:24:00 PM    Science Lover

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A novel device that uses only sunlight and wastewater to produce hydrogen gas could provide a sustainable energy source while improving the efficiency of wastewater treatment. The new hybrid solar-microbial device is self-driven  and self-sustained, because...

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How the Brain Remembers Pleasure: Implications for Addiction

How the Brain Remembers Pleasure: Implications for Addiction

  8:46:00 PM    Science Lover

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Key details of the way nerve cells in the brain remember pleasure are revealed in a study by University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) researchers published today in the journal Nature Neuroscience. The molecular events that form such "reward memories" appear to differ...

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Researchers use mobile phones to measure happiness

Researchers use mobile phones to measure happiness

  10:01:00 AM    Science Lover

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Researchers at Princeton University are developing ways to use mobile phones to explore how one's environment influences one's sense of well-being. Locations of study subjects on world map. Credit: Demography In a study involving volunteers who agreed to provide...

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Report:A Semi-Floating Gate Transistor for Low-Voltage Ultrafast Memory and Sensing Operation

Report:A Semi-Floating Gate Transistor for Low-Voltage Ultrafast Memory and Sensing Operation

  10:19:00 AM    Science Lover

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Researchers at Fudan University in China have discovered a way to speed up traditional computer transistors by embedding tunneling field-effect transistors (TFETs) in them. In their paper published in the journal Science, the team describes how embedding TFETs in such...

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Bad Night's Sleep? The Moon Could Be to Blame

Bad Night's Sleep? The Moon Could Be to Blame

  7:26:00 PM    Science Lover

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8G43FPT25P63 Many people complain about poor sleep around the full moon, and now a report appearing in Current Biology, a Cell Press publication, on July 25 offers some of the first convincing scientific evidence to suggest that this really is true. The findings add...

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Computer as Smart as a 4-Year-Old? Researchers IQ Test New Artificial Intelligence System

Computer as Smart as a 4-Year-Old? Researchers IQ Test New Artificial Intelligence System

  7:45:00 PM    Science Lover

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Artificial and natural knowledge researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago have IQ-tested one of the best available artificial intelligence systems to see how intelligent it really is. Artificial and natural knowledge researchers IQ-tested  one of...

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For better batteries, just add water

For better batteries, just add water

  12:29:00 AM    Science Lover

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A new type of lithium-ion battery that uses aqueous iodide ions in an aqueous cathode configuration provides twice the energy density of conventional lithium-ion batteries. A new type of lithium-ion battery that uses aqueous iodide ions in an aqueous cathode...

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Microsoft creates mood sensing software for smartphones

Microsoft creates mood sensing software for smartphones

  8:47:00 PM    Science Lover

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Microsoft Research Asia has been working on creating software called MoodScope that notes how a user uses his or her phone, and then uses that information to guess that user's mood. Initial testing of the device has shown it to be 66 percent accurate; when tailored...

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Imagination Can Change What We Hear and See

Imagination Can Change What We Hear and See

  1:24:00 PM    Science Lover

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A study from Karolinska Institut in Sweden shows, that our imagination may affect how we experience the world more than we perhaps think. What we imagine hearing or seeing "in our head" can change our actual perception. The study, which is published in the scientific...

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A Telescope for Your Eye: New Contact Lens Design May Improve Sight of Patients With Macular Degeneration

A Telescope for Your Eye: New Contact Lens Design May Improve Sight of Patients With Macular Degeneration

  9:04:00 PM    Science Lover

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Contact lenses correct many people's eyesight but do nothing to improve the blurry vision of those suffering from age-related macular degeneration (AMD), the leading cause of blindness among older adults in the western world. That's because simply correcting the eye's...

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Breaking habits before they start

Breaking habits before they start

  7:57:00 AM    Science Lover

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Our daily routines can become so ingrained that we perform them automatically, such as taking the same route to work every day. Some behaviors, such as smoking or biting your fingernails, become so habitual that we can't stop even if we want to. Although breaking...

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Video Game Tech Used to Steer Cockroaches On Autopilot

Video Game Tech Used to Steer Cockroaches On Autopilot

  8:01:00 PM    Science Lover

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North Carolina State University researchers are using video game technology to remotely control cockroaches on autopilot, with a computer steering the cockroach through a controlled environment. The researchers are using the technology to track how roaches respond to...

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Action needed to help tobacco users quit across the globe

Action needed to help tobacco users quit across the globe

  12:19:00 AM    Science Lover

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More than half of the countries who signed the WHO 2005 Framework Convention on Tobacco Control have not formed plans to help tobacco users quit. The World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC) is a treaty developed to tackle the...

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Consider a Text for Teen Suicide Prevention and Intervention, Research Suggests

Consider a Text for Teen Suicide Prevention and Intervention, Research Suggests

  11:38:00 PM    Science Lover

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Adolescents Commonly Use Social Media to Reach Out When They are Depressed "Obviously this is a place where adolescents are expressing their feelings. It leads me to believe that we need to think about using social media as an intervention and as a way to connect...

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More data storage? Here's how to fit 1,000 terabytes on a DVD

More data storage? Here's how to fit 1,000 terabytes on a DVD

  1:17:00 AM    Science Lover

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We live in a world where digital information is exploding. Some 90% of the world's data was generated in the past two years. The obvious question is: how can we store it all? Using nanotechnology, researchers have developed a technique to increase the data storage...

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Beyond Silicon: Transistors, No Semiconductors

Beyond Silicon: Transistors, No Semiconductors

  11:59:00 PM    Science Lover

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For decades, electronic devices have been getting smaller, and smaller, and smaller. It's now possible -- even routine -- to place millions of transistors on a single silicon chip. Electrons flash across a series of gold quantum dots on boron  nitride nanotubes....

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