timesofindia.indiatimes.com:
Students, researchers and faculty members from IIT-Madras now have the chance to turn innovative ideas into sustainable businesses with the Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME) incubation initiative. (Read More)
Health/Sci-The Times of India:
A 20-foot-long crocodile with three sets of fangs - like wild boar tusks - roamed parts of northern Africa millions of years ago, researchers reported. (Read More)
Gizmodo:
The good news: scientists have developed a Star Trek-like phaser that can be set to stun. The bad news: it only works on worms so far. Researchers have now found a way to paralyse tiny worms when they expose them to ultravio (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
Our own Marshall Kirkpatrick's dreaded brain chip for controlling computers and mobile devices may be closer than even he suspected.Intel researchers in Pittsburgh - Pittsburgh! - told journalists today that brain implants ar (Read More)
BBC:
French researchers say they have found a way of using human embryonic stem cells to create new skin which could help serious burns victims. (Read More)
Gizmodo:
Gadgets are overwhelmingly concerned with immediacy and functionality, but a production of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream at Texas A&M University reminds us that technology, when applied creatively, can be timeless a (Read More)
USATODAY.com - Science Fair:
Researchers report today in Science that they have sequenced the genome of a common variety of corn, which could lead to improved crops and help piece together the evolution of the plant. “When you have the genome sequence, y (Read More)
Health/Sci-The Times of India:
Researchers from IBM Corp are reporting that they've simulated a cat's cerebral cortex, the thinking part of the brain, using a massive supercomputer. (Read More)
Reuters: Science News:
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - New fossils unearthed in what is now the Sahara desert reveal a once-swampy world divided up among a half-dozen species of unusual and perhaps intelligent crocodiles, researchers reported Thursday.
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New York Times:
A report finds that universities often do not disclose faculty members’ conflicts of interest in government-financed studies.
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Reuters: Science News:
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Increasing the levels of a message-carrying chemical in the brain may help prevent some of the memory deficits in Down syndrome that hinder learning and make it hard for the brain to develop normally, U.S. (Read More)
Reuters: Science News:
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Villagers in the highlands of Papua New Guinea who ritualistically ate human brains but did not die of a brain disease called kuru have a genetic mutation that protects them, researchers said Wednesday. (Read More)
USATODAY.com - On Deadline:
Researchers have found an Asian insect in north Georgia that loves to munch on kudzu, but also may enjoy dining on such cash crops as soybeans and other legumes.
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Health/Sci-The Times of India:
You can't blame this one on McDonald's: Researchers have found signs of heart disease in 3,500-year-old mummies. (Read More)