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This `smart lens` to give you night vision

Last Updated: Thursday, March 20, 2014, 13:53

What about wearing a contact lens that can let you see things in the dark? A smart contact lens is in the offing that could give its wearer infra-red `night vision`.

Forget Google Glass, first wearable device was a Chinese ring!

Last Updated: Thursday, March 20, 2014, 13:50

As the world gears up for the wearable computer devices, back in the 17th century, one Chinese designer did create a functioning abacus `smart ring’ that worked as a counting tool to help traders.

48-million-year-old food webs show modern structure

Last Updated: Thursday, March 20, 2014, 13:43

In the most compelling evidence to date that ancient food webs were organised much like modern food webs, researchers have pieced together a highly detailed picture of feeding relationships among 700 mammal, bird, reptile, fish, insect and plant species from a 48 million year old lake and forest ecosystem.

LHC and Tevatron find precise value of top-quark mass

Last Updated: Thursday, March 20, 2014, 13:40

Scientists working on the world`s leading particle collider experiments joined forces, combined their data and produced the first joint result from Fermilab`s Tevatron and CERN`s Large Hadron Collider (LHC), past and current holders of the record for most powerful particle collider on Earth.

New magnetic behavior discovery may help nuclear fusion reactions easier to start

Last Updated: Thursday, March 20, 2014, 13:35

Researchers have uncovered a new kind of magnetic behavior that could help make nuclear fusion reactions easier to start.

Earliest evidence of limb bone marrow in 370-million-year-old fish`s fin found

Last Updated: Thursday, March 20, 2014, 13:32

Researchers have presented the earliest fossil evidence for the presence of bone marrow in the fin of a 370 million-year-old fish.

Tiny devices that can control nuclear reactor are here

Last Updated: Thursday, March 20, 2014, 13:20

Call it future technology as engineers from University of Utah have fabricated the smallest plasma transistors that can withstand high temperatures and ionising radiation found in a nuclear reactor.

Now, app that turns smartphone into portable medical diagnostic device

Last Updated: Thursday, March 20, 2014, 11:12

Researchers have developed a mobile phone application recently that could make monitoring conditions such as diabetes, kidney disease, and urinary tract infections much clearer and easier for both patients and doctors.