TopNews

Researchers have come up with a latest 3D printing technique for creating strong flexible ceramic structures with low porosity and cracking. Researchers said that the technique is likely to find usage in high-temperature settings at scales from microelectromechanical devices to jet engines.

The technique has leveraged polymer chemistry and UV light in some novel ways. 3D printing of ceramics has a lot of potential advantages, as it has ability of creating complex shapes that are hard to create with the help conventional methods.

On Thursday, a federal judge granted a two-week restraining order against an Arkansas law, which restricts use of the so-called abortion pill. The grant has been given a day before the statute was to become effective.

The law has been challenged by Planned Parenthood of the Heartland, which has two clinics in Arkansas. On Wednesday, the US District Judge Kristine Baker heard arguments prior to permitting the group's request for a temporary stay that prevents the enforcement of the law, on Thursday.

Further arguments will be heard by the judge, but she said in her ruling that Planned Parenthood had a significant chance of prevailing in its argument that the statute is an unconstitutional violation of the right of a woman get an abortion done.

A mosquitoes-causing little-known virus is going to cause one of the most alarming health crises in Brazil in coming years. Officials have reported thousands of brain damage cases, wherein babies are born with strangely tiny heads.

The news has made all Brazil women panic. The government has been facing withering criticism for not taking timely action. It has urged women to take every precaution to avoid mosquito bites. In fact, an official has suggested that women living in regions where mosquitoes are mainly prevalent should delay their child planning.

Claudio Maierovitch, director of the department of surveillance of communicable diseases at Brazil’s Health Ministry, said that if a woman can wait, then she must wait.

Scientists have come up with a new method to record 3D video of neural activity in approximately the entire brain of a free-moving animal. It is an advance that may help scientists better understand how neurons organize action and perception in animals.

The US’s Princeton University researchers used the technique to record the first 3D recordings of neural activity in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans. Nematode Caenorhabditis elegans is a 1 millimetre long worm species with a nervous system that has just 302 neurons.

The researchers correlated the activity of 77 neurons from the nervous system of the animal with specific behaviors, like turning and backward or forward motion.

Keeping track of just how much stuff we throw away everyday is not at all an easy job, but have you ever imagined trying to capture that on a global scale for nearly 60 years, that too in space. A latest video has accomplished this staggering feat as it has visualized decades of space debris accumulation around the Earth.

The visualization has been generated by Dr Stuart Grey, a lecturer at University College London. It has captured the accumulation from 1957 through to 2015. Presently, there are estimated to be over 20,000 space junk items trapped in Earth's orbit.

The space junk includes dead satellites, old engine parts and other floating junk that are generated from collisions in space or by space missions.

On Christmas Eve, a huge squid was captured on video when the strange creature from the deep came up at a marina in the city of Toyama. Last Thursday, roughly 3.7 meters long squid was seen swimming underneath docked fishing boats at about 7 am.

The giant squid made local people surprised because giant squids are rarely seen in shallow coastal waters.

Yuki Igushi, a curator at Uozu Aquarium in Toyama described his feeling as he swam nearby the creature. While speaking to NHK, he said, “The squid was incredibly big. The suckers were so powerful. When I touched one with my hands, it tried to stick to my body”.