Thursday, March 11, 2010, 3:51 pm BangaloreXpo - Bangalore News, Entertainment, Business, Events and Travel
Home News Science

Painting Your Roofs White Could Help Reduce Effects of Global Warming

Washington: A new modeling study has determined that painting your roofs white can help reduce the effects of global warming in the city.

Read more...
 

Satellite Images To Facilitate Rescue Work In Haiti
Washington: The powerful earthquake that struck the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince this week may have made current maps suddenly out of date, obstructing relief and rescue efforts, but earth observation satellite images are proving to be helpful by providing updated views of how the landscape and the infrastructure have been affected.
Read more...
 

Scientists Give Flies Memories of Bad Experience
Washington: Oxford scientists have succeeded in directly manipulating the activity of individual neurons to give flies memories of a bad experience-something they never really had.

"Flies have the ability to learn, but the circuits that instruct memory formation were unknown. We were able to pin the essential component down to 12 cells. It''s really remarkable resolution," said Gero Miesenbock of the University of Oxford.
Read more...
 

Placebo effect is all in the spine - not just the mind
London: Solving the mystery of why some people benefit from remedies that do not contain any active pain-relief ingredients, scientists have found that the placebo effect doesn''t only lie in the mind.

The new study has suggested that placebos work, in part, by blocking pain signals in the spinal cord from arriving at the brain in the first place.
Read more...
 

Giving oxygen to H1N1 patients with respiratory failure improves survival
Washington: A new study has revealed that adding oxygen to the blood of H1N1 patients suffering from respiratory failure can significantly improve their survival.

The researchers said that patients who developed severe acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), were treated with extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO).
Read more...
 
More Articles...
<< Start < Prev 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Next > End >>

Page 1 of 25

Subscribe to XPO News

News Sports Entertainment

Weather Update

Weather for Bangalore
Partly Cloudy Mostly Sunny Partly Cloudy
Thu Fri Sat

Currency Converter

Convert
To: