London, Sept 18 : Babies as young as one can pass on useful information, claim German scientists, who added that infants are excellent communicators.

To reach the conclusion, researchers at the Max Planck Institute asked 49 one-year-olds to help their parent find an object that had fallen out of sight while the adult wasn’t looking.

Most of the toddlers were able to help their parent.

“One-year-olds, before they have language skills, can point informatively and communicate appropriately for ignorant adults,” the Daily Express quoted the report, as stating.

In another experiment the parent saw the object fall – and the babies knew they didn’t need to help.

Washington, September 18 : An engineer, at the Iowa State University in the US, along with his colleagues, is studying engines in an effort to reduce emissions and improve their efficiency.

The engineer in question is Song-Charng Kong, an Iowa State assistant professor of mechanical engineering.

With the help of 15 graduate students and all kinds of sensors recording engine cylinder pressure, energy release and exhaust emissions, is looking for cleaning and improving engine performance.

“There is still a lot of work to be done to improve engine performance,” Kong said. “All of this work will lead to incremental improvements,” he added.

Kong and his students are working on a lot of combustion projects in the lab.

Washington, September 18: Radiations emitting from mobile phones can distort measurements taken via the latest measuring systems, even when their individual components have passed the standardized Electromagnetic Compatibility Test (EMC).

Researchers at the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB) say that this is the reason why the verification of vehicle scales that are used to weigh trains, lorries or cars are rejected by the concerned authorities in certain cases.

New York, Sept. 18: Microsoft owner Bill Gates, with a net worth of 57 billion dollars, remains the richest man in America despite losing his crown to Warren Buffett for a few months this spring.

According to Forbes latest list of 400 of the richest Americans, Berkshire Hathaway’s Warren Buffet, whose shares have fallen 15 percent since February, follows Gates.

Newcomers to the list include fertilizer tycoon Alexander Rovt, car dealer and art collector Norman Braman and Patrón tequila founder John Paul DeJoria.

Mark Zuckerberg, the 24-year-old founder of social networking site Facebook, debuts on The Forbes 400 with an estimated net worth of 1.5 billion dollars.

A whole new range of iPods by Apple has been unleashed in the Indian Market, which includes the iPod nano, iPod Touch, iPod shuffle and iPod Classic.The new series of iPod shuffle is now in exciting three new colours, while the Classic is available with extended memory. On the other hand iPod Touch has become even slimmer and now is supported by volume control buttons.

San Francisco - Anonymous hackers penetrated the private email account of Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin and Wednesday posted screen shots of the account on the internet.

The intrusion came amid growing reports that Palin used her private email account to conduct official business in an effort to avoid public scrutiny.

It was strongly condemned by the McCain-Palin campaign as a "shocking invasion of privacy" and both the FBI and Secret Service launched investigations into the incident.