Weather prediction requires significant investment in sensors, computers to predict and calculate and then experts who would interpret the data. However, a group of entrepreneurs have made an app that predicts the weather in the short term with very little investment. First, what does the application do ? It predicts rain in the short term…
The problem: When staining tissues, it is difficult to see through tissue and so most of the time what is done is to section the tissue and then stain for specific proteins to see their distribution within the tissue. Sectioning also enables the tissue to become accessible for the reagents that are used to stain…
The story of Lego has been used as an example for many a MBA course. The story is incredible. Lego – a privately owned company did almost everything right – they listened to the customer, they developed products in different categories, enabled innovation in their company and came up with unique ideas. When the technology…
Each researcher spends quality time managing the literature that they have collected in the form of papers and PDF’s. However, the collection of PDF continues to grow and there are very little in the form of tools that help manage it. There are three(3) great open source tools that work wonderfully to manage the collection…
Plants communicate with each other. That much is known. However, what is not known is how plants communicate using symbiosis. Dr Johnson has reported new work in Ecology letters that shows that plants use symbiotic fungi to enable communication. Communication also causes interesting secretion by plants when infected by aphids. These secretions that are volatile…
Carnegie Mellon researchers, Robert Xiao, Chris Harrison and Scott E Hudson have come up with a touchscreen system that can be used on any surface. They have used a projector coupled with a depth measuring system that enables any surface to be converted to a touch screen. More information here and the technology can be…
ImageJ is one of the popular image analysis programs along with Fiji, Bioimage and Icy. There is another program that is used for image analysis that has several qualities that make it very useful. It is written completely in Java and so can run on multiple platforms, is object oriented for image storage that enables…
A Japanese group has compiled images that correspond to those seen by the person in a dream enabling researchers to reconstruct the dreams. In short, this was accomplished in two passes: first recording the images that are relevant to people and then correlating it with the specific areas of brain stimulated, as seen through MRI….
It is known that eyes of the common fly is a compound eye with multiple detectors and multiple lenses. It has always been thought that the 180 degree vision would be very useful and could be very high resolution. Though interesting to think about in terms of camera’s, it has been difficult to create multiple…
There are large data-sets that are being generated that are amazingly large, completely open for anyone to use and see and can generate valuable conclusions. Hapmap is one such grand project. This is made up of participants from US, UK, China, Japan, Canada and Nigeria. Look at the link below to get all the…
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