Brain scientists have been successful in fooling people into believing that they are inside the body of another person or a plastic dummy.

The research may lead to practical applications such as more instinctive remote control of robots, treatments for phantom limb pain in amputees and possible treatments for anorexia.

The latest research actually follows a related study from the same group last year. In the last years research, the scientists convinced volunteers that were indulging in out-of-body experience.

Assam authorities ordered to kill 40,000 poultry as there is deadly bird flu virus in the region. The poultry targeted includes chickens and ducks.

Deputy Director of the Assam Veterinary department, Manoranjan Choudhury said, “Culling operations are on in the district of Kamrup since Friday and so far about 40,000 chickens and ducks were killed.”  

Microsoft announced a complete repair of its Windows Live suite of software and services last month. During the time, it was said by the company that general public would be able to avail Live by early December. Sticking to what the company had said, Microsoft announced today that the refreshed services has been launched and are available at home. live. com.

Recently, it was revealed by the U. S. researchers that they are bringing in use, materials called piezoelectrics, in order to push science closer to self-powering devices, like cellular telephones.

It has been informed by Texas A&M Professor Tahir Cagin and his team that they have made a very vital discovery in the area of power harvesting. It is basically a field that is directed to design self-powered devices that do not require replaceable power supplies, such as batteries.

Ranbaxy Laboratories Ltd, a leading pharmaceutical major, has announced that it has clinched an exclusive licensing pact with US-based BioPro Pharmaceutical to market Gliadel tablets in India.

Earlier, Ranbaxy had announced a similar agreement with CD Pharma, a leading Europe-based  biotech  firm to sell its probiotic dental medicine Inersan in India and  Nepal.

It has been revealed by the Japanese electronics conglomerate, Hitachi that it will produce Solid State Drives (SSD) jointly with chipmaker Intel. SSDs are memory devices that are figured as a nice alternative for HDDs (Hard Disk Drives). Hitachi, the world's third largest hard drive maker has never used the SSD technology before. Since the SSDs are capable of absorbing shocks better and consume less power than hard disk drives, they are mainly used in laptop PCs. The features of SSDs are quite vital for any laptop user.