IIWII(It Is What It Is)

Chances are, you plug in your phone before you go to bed at night, thinking it’s best to greet the morning with a fully charged device.  Is this a good idea? That depends. Here’s the thing. Many people don’t expect to keep their phones for much longer than two years. For the most part, experts say, those people are not going to notice much damage to their phones batteries before they start hankering for a new device. If that sounds like you, feel free to charge every night, and as often as you like in between. But frequent charging takes a toll on the lithium- ion batteries in our phones. And it’s not because they can be over – charged, said Edo Campos, a spokesman for Anker, which produces phone chargers. “Smart phones are, in fact, smart,” Campos said. “They know when to stop charging.” Android phones and iPhones are equipped with chips that protect them from absorbing excess electrical current once they are fully charged. So in theory, any damage from chargin...

Many of the Volkswagen cars sold since 1995 can easily be unlocked by hackers, according to a team of researchers. A large number of the 100 million cars sold in the last 20 years by Volkswagen - also including the Audi, Seat and Skoda brands- can be unlocked using just a homemade radio that costs about 30 pound sterling. The cheap equipment allows hackers to listen in on the signals sent by the keys to their cars. Those signals can then be replicated using the same equipment. Volkswagen has said that it is aware of the problem and is working with the researchers who found it. The issues are described by researchers from the university of Birmingham and German security company Kasper & Oswald. Their paper lays out two separate ways of doing the attack which would compromise the locking systems on VW cars. The researchers say that once they worked to clone the digital keys, they could reverse-engineer the systems used in the affected models. After doing that they found ...

#5/8/2016 #friday What is Arthritis?   Arthritis  is a form of  joint disorder  that involves  inflammation  in one or more joints. There are over 100 different forms of arthritis. [3] [4]  The most common form of arthritis is  osteoarthritis  (degenerative joint disease), a result of trauma to the joint, infection of the joint, or age. for surprising reasons arthritis is not so new disease. Actually the new study had revealed something very surprising about arthritis. here it is.. Scientists have discovered evidence of arthritis in the fossilised elbow of a 70-million-year old duck-billed dinosaur, suggesting the condition is not a modern malady. The finding is the oldest recorded case of septic arthritis- a condition in which a joint becomes inflamed, often from bacteria or fungus, researchers said. "our duck billed dinosaur seems to have been afflicted with septic arthritis, which completely destroyed the elbow joint,...

Dog lovers, take note! Labradors are the canine breed most likely to bite you, new research from the UK has found. Men are more likely to bitten than women, and almost every one third of such incidents involve delivery workers and postal staff, the research by pet insures Animal Friends has revealed. "Dogs are really good at picking up on people and they remember everything, so the best advice is to make friends with them rather than enemies," said Roger Mugford, an animal psychologist.

Scientists are developing a 3D food printer that can fabricate edible items through computer guided software and the actual cooking of edible pastes, gels, powders, and liquid ingredients- all in a prototype that looks like an elegant coffee machine. "food printers are not meant to replace conventional cooking.They will not solve all of our nutritional needs, nor cook everything we should eat," said Hod Lipson from Columbia university in the US. "but they will produce an infinite variety of customised fresh , nutritional foods on demand, transforming digital recipes and basic ingredients supplied in frozen cartridges into healthy dishes that can supplement our daily intake" said Lipson. "I think this is the missing link that will bring the benefits of personalised data-driven health to our kitchen tables- it is the 'killer app' of 3D printing," he added. The printer is fitted out with a robotic arm that holds eight slots for frozen food...

1. Beard Second:   The beard-second is a unit of length inspired by the light year, but used for extremely short distances such as those in integrated circuits. The beard-second is defined as the average length a physicist's beard grows in one second. It's been defined variously as 100 angstroms (10nm) or as a 5nm! 2.Wheaton:    It's a measurement of Twitter followers relative to celebrity Wil Wheaton. One miliwheaton equals 500 followers. Have you reached one miliwheaton? 3.Mickey:   One Mickey per sec is the smallest resolvable unit of measurement for the speed and direction that a computer mouse pointing device is moved. It is named after Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse cartoon character. 4. Helens:    It is used to measure beauty. Is this unit named after the Bollywood star Helen? No clues though! 5. Potrzebie:    It is developed by Donald E Knuth. According to Knuth, one potrzebie equals 2.26473 mm. Did you enjoy??comment.   ...

#1/8/2016 #Monday A team of scientists at a Belgian university says that they have created a machine that turns urine into drinkable water and fertilizer using solar energy, a technique which could be applied in rural areas and developing countries. While there are other options for treating waste water, the system applied at the University of Ghent uses a special membrane, is said to be energy-efficient and to be applicable in areas off the the electricity grid.  Process: the urine is collected in a big tank, heated in a solar powered boiler before passing through the membrane where the water is recovered and nutrients such as potassium, nitrogen and phosphorous are separated. Under the slogan #peeforscience, the team recently deployed the machine at a 10 day music and theatre festival in central Ghent, recovering 1,000 litres of water from the urine of revellers.

#1/8/2016 #Monday Scientists have found a way to use nano particles to effectively break down plaque and wipe out more than 99.9% of cavity causing bacteria within minutes, an advance that may help better prevent tooth decay. The bacteria that live in dental plaque and contribute to tooth decay often resist traditional antimicrobial treatment, as they can ''hide'' within a sticky bio film matrix, a glue-like polymer scaffold.  Researchers at University of Pennsylvania took a more sophisticated approach. Instead of applying an anti-microbial to the teeth, they took advantage of the pH-sensitivity and enzyme- like properties of iron-containing nano particles to catalyse the activity of hydrogen peroxide, a commonly used natural antiseptic.  The activated hydrogen peroxide produced free radicals that were able to degrade the biofilm matrix and kill the bacteria within, significantly reducing plaque and preventing tooth decay, or cavities, in an animal mo...