-One of the world’s tiniest frogs has been discovered in Borneo. At 10-12 mm long, Microhyla nepenthicola may be micro, but its croak is loud. That’s how researchers found them, swimming in tiny puddles of water captured by pitcher plants. Scientists presumably thought they were juveniles of other species, but it turns out they are adults of this newly-discovered micro species.
-The revisionists have been busy lately, and it’s all bad news. Pluto is not a planet. Al Gore is not a Boy Scout. Cough syrup doesn’t work. And now there’s no such thing as a Triceratops. Researchers from Montana State University have determined that the beloved three-horned dinosaur wasn’t really a distinct genus but the juvenile version of Torosaurus, long believed to be its larger cousin; However, a Triceratops isn’t a baby Torosaurus- a Torosaurus is a grown-up Triceratops. Triceratops is extinct, but Torosaurus never happened.
-It has been revealed that Brannon Baga had actually wanted to kill Star Trek Voyager Seven of Nine and he has recently shared his view in s recent interview that was conducted on SFX Magazine. He stated that the recent episode called ” Human Error” that has been written by Andre Bormanis is a very heart breaking episode that made Seven of Nine explore her human emotions. She discovers a conflict within herself and she knew that she neither was here or there.This is the reason why she should have been killed off in the episode, according to Brannon Baga.
-If you are looking for a way to earn money you can get dressed up like a zombie to actually earn money! Zombies are a species that are out for your blood and they are always looking for prey to eat as they are hungry for flesh. This is not a joke as the state of Minneapolis has issued a settlement where seven people can earn $165,000 for dressing up like a zombie. The zombies were performance artists that dressed up to protest against mindless consumerism in nearby grocery shops. This protest however did not get them far as they were arrested and jailed for two days.
-According to recent reports that were issued by The Hollywood Reporter, Lucas Film has recently filed a $5 million suited against any Jedi Mind Inc that is now selling a wireless headset that has the ability to detect brainwaves and makes it possible for the users to play games on the applications with thoughts alone. Lucas has complained that the trademark that is an infringement that will cause confusion in the market.
-Syfy renews its hit series Eureka for a 5th season. And do you remember the last time you saw the star of Eureka Nathan Stark? When you saw him last time when he was sealing a time space anomaly that was also disintegrating. His last words that were said to Sheriff carter was that he would be back and ever since fans have been waiting eagerly for his return. You can take a sneak look at the Friday’s episode of “The Ex files” that successfully had the audience roaring with success. Here you will find the guest star of the series Ed Quinn playing the role of Nathan Stark.
-Scientists have reported the development of a new battery-like device that opens the possibility that people one day could “recharge” cell phones, laptops, and other portable electronics in an unlikely way ― with a sugar fix from a shared sip of soda pop or even a dose of vegetable oil. For the new biofuel cell, Minteer and colleagues chose one of the most amazing organelles: the mitochondria. The device consists of a thin layer of mitochondria sandwiched between two electrodes, including a gas-permeable electrode. Tests showed that it produced electricity using sugar or cooking oil byproducts as fuel.
-Timescales of early Solar System processes rely on precise, accurate and consistent ages obtained with radiometric dating. However, recent advances in instrumentation now allow scientists to make more precise measurements, some of which are revealing inconsistencies in the ages of samples. Seeking better constraints on the age of the Solar System, Arizona State University researchers Audrey Bouvier and Meenakshi Wadhwa analyzed meteorite Northwest Africa (NWA) 2364 and found that the age of the Solar System predates previous estimates by up to 1.9 million years. By using a dating technique known as lead-lead dating, Bouvier and Wadhwa were able to calculate the age of a calcium-aluminum-rich inclusion (CAI) contained within the Northwest Africa 2364 chondritic meteorite. These CAIs are thought to be the first solids to condense from the cooling protoplanetary disk during the birth of the Solar System.
-It’s well known in the semiconductor industry that conventional flash memory — an essential element of mobile electronics today — cannot improve much more because continued shrinking of its floating gate structure in the pursuit of faster performance and higher data storage capacity will soon degrade its ability to retain its memory. The situation has stimulated a wide range of research worldwide into dozens of alternative memory designs, but most attractive to industry would be one that requires the least modification to the existing floating-gate design.A research group headed by Chao-Sung Lai at Chang Gung University in Taoyuan, Taiwan, has done just that. They have demonstrated that a cleverly modified floating gate made of gadolinium oxide — an inexpensive rare-earth compound already used in other microelectronic applications — has the write/erase speed and data retention properties that will enable smaller, faster and higher-capacity flash memories in the future.