Articles Archive for June 2011
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A spicy way has been found to kill cancer cells. Scientists have discovered that a substance found in turmeric, a basic curry ingredient, can kill cancer cells within 24 hours. Researchers at Ireland’s Cork Cancer Research Centre who treated oesophageal cancer cells with curcumin, a chemical found in turmeric, observed that it triggers lethal death signals in the cells.…
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Headline, Space Exploration »
What does Earth look like when viewed from Mars? At 13:00 GMT on 8 May 2003, the Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) had an opportunity to find out. In addition, a fortuitous alignment of Earth and Jupiter—the first planetary conjunction viewed from another planet—permitted the MOC to acquire an image of both of these bodies and their larger satellites. At the time, Mars and the orbiting camera were 139 million kilometers (86 million miles) from Earth and almost 1 billion kilometers (nearly 600 million miles) from …
Research, Science »
This is such a good news to those who reside tropical countries. Scientists announced that the dengue vaccine could be ready in 2015 in their press release entitled, “Dengue vaccine could be ready by 2015“. I wonder if we can wait that long. Malaysia has done something to mutate the mosquito (LINK) but no progress heard from them since then. I think some Japanese also come up with an idea on how to prevent mosquitoes from laying eggs (LINK). Anyway, I really hope this …
Gadgets, Headline »
iCloud is yet another innovative product/gadget to be introduced by Apple. This is a product that can store your data, content and information and helps to integrate with other applications. The present age of competition requires you to manage all your content and information up-to-date across all your storing devices and gadgets. iCloud does exactly like this; it happens automatically and since it is integrated into the applications with the help of wireless, it happens in a fraction of a second.…
Featured, Science, Weird and Oddities »
Throughout the ages scientists have a passion to discover and invent something which is new to the world. Here, we are talking about none other than a discovery about an ‘ant’ file. Actually scientists investigated to find out how the subterranean cities of Ants looked like. The science work of the scientists has been achieved due to their continuous efforts and passion to achieve something.…
Weird and Oddities »
A MAN took a picture of an unidentified flying object (UFO) while holidaying in the outskirts of Kunming, China. He did not notice anything strange in the sky until he looked at the photographs he took later. Could it be another Russian craft like incident in Roswell?…
Arts, Graphics and Designs »
The Graffitiami is coming from the blending word of Graffiti and Kirigami. For those who do not know, Kiri is a variation of origami that includes cutting of the paper (from Japanese “kiru” = to cut, “kami” = paper). Typically, kirigami starts with a folded base, which is then cut; cuts are then opened and flattened to make the finished kirigami. Kirigami are usually symmetrical, such as snowflakes, pentagrams, or orchid blossoms.

