01st June 2007
STRESS EXPERIENCED by a woman during pregnancy may affect her unborn baby as early as 17 weeks after conception, with potentially harmful effects on brain and development, according to new research.
The study is the first to show that unborn babies ar...
31st May 2007
The PlayStation 2 is Sony's second video game console, the successor to the PlayStation and the predecessor to the PlayStation 3. Its development was announced in March 1999, and it was first released in Japan on March 4, 2000, in North America on October...
30th May 2007
Smoking habits in parents can remotely effect the health of their children who might suffer from respiratory problems later in their life, a study has said.
Children who do not show any signs of respiratory problems may still be experiencing damaging ...
30th May 2007
The Moon has a prominent place in myth and folklore throughout human history.
Formation
According to a theory, the Moon was created when a rock the size of Mars slammed into Earth, short ly after the solar system began forming about 4.5 billion year...
30th May 2007
Scientists have bred cows that produce skimmed milk and hope to establish herds of the cattle in order to meet the demands of health-conscious consumers.
The milk is also high in omega-3 oils, claimed to improve brain power, and contains polyunsaturat...
25th May 2007
CANADIAN RESEARCHERS have developed the most detailed model of a human yet, a movable 4-D image that doctors can use to plan complex surgery or show patients what ailments look like inside their bodies.
Called CAVEman, the largerthan-life computer imag...
23rd May 2007
Children's museums are institutions that provide fun informal learning experiences for children. Traditional art and natural history museums typically have a hands-off policy regarding exhibits. Exhibits are designed to be viewed from a distance, and are ...
22nd May 2007
Cellphones
Car phones were around in the 1970s, but it wasn't until 1983 that Motorola introduced the first widely available handheld cellphone, the DynaTAC 8000x.
Laptop computers
The 28-pound Compaq Portable - Compaq Computer's very first produc...
21st May 2007
Genetics is the science of heredity and variation in living organisms. Knowledge that desired characteristics were inherited has been implicitly used since prehistoric times for improving crop plants and animals through selective breeding. However, the mo...
21st May 2007
Proper handling of the camera itself can reduce the number of retakes, helping to make your day easier by decreasing the number of times you need to repeat the dreaded "hold on, I need to take one more". Taking better quality pictures means taking fewer p...
11th May 2007
Antimatter
Like Superman's alter-ego, Bizzaro, the particles making up normal matter also have their opposite versions. An electron has a negative charge, for example, but its anti-matter equivalent, the positron, is positive. Matter and anti-matter ann...
10th May 2007
Karaoke pronounced [karaoke]; listen is a form of entertainment in which an amateur singer or singers sing along with recorded music on microphone. The music is typically of a well-known song in which the voice of the original singer is absent or reduced ...
09th May 2007
NASA ASTRONOMERS, reported the biggest and brightest star explosion ever recorded a blast whose light began reaching Earth in the past year from 240 million light-years away.
The remnants of the explosion pose no threat to people or electronics, but ...
08th May 2007
Microsoft has rolled out its new Windows Live Hotmail interface to all Hotmail users. Available in 36 languages, this is the most significant upgrade to MSN Hotmail since its debut in 1996.
Microsoft said the new service is a vast improvement over its...
06th May 2007
Cloning is the process of creating an identical copy of something. In biology, it collectively refers to processes used to create copies of DNA fragments (molecular cloning), cells (cell cloning), or organisms. The term also encompasses situations, whereb...
