If you're the fidgety type, new research from Georga Tech may one day turn your nervous energy into a fully charged cellphone. The scientists, who previously borrowed piezoelectric power from walking, created static electricity generated from movement between plastic and metal, similar to the way a balloon can be electrified by rubbing it on your hair. The c... Read more
For whatever reason, researchers have long been stuck on the idea of harnessing the wasted energy potential of the human body. We've seen our nation's brightest try to siphon power off of our spare bo... Read more
A group of researchers at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have created microbatteries that charge 1,000 times faster than normal batteries and can, feasibly, "jump-start a car" while poweri... Read more
Madrid, Feb 27 (IANS) Researchers from the Pompeu Fabra University in Spain have created a high resolution atlas of the heart based on 3D images taken from 138 people.
"This atlas is a statistical d... Read more
New Delhi, April 26 (IANS) An over 2.2-million-euros grant to research the mysteries of the human DNA in a lab in France - that's the handsome sum Indian researcher Ramesh Pillai has got from the Eur... Read more
When you think about it, scientists and cowboys have a lot in common. Both are frontiersmen of a sort, both wear clothes that make them easy to identify and now they both count lassos among their esse... Read more
Berlin, Feb 14 (IANS) Researchers have figured out why some people are slow learners -- their brain may not be able to process information sufficiently.
Scientists trained the subjects' sense of tou... Read more
Researchers at the University of California San Diego have devised new algorithms that can cut lithium-ion battery charge times in half, help cells run more efficiently and potentially cut production ... Read more
London, Nov 25 (IANS) Slyly munching on a chocolate slab or a mound of chips when one is on a diet can be a highly pleasurable act −− and researchers in the US have found that guilt is ke... Read more