Indian-origin researchers say future cars will talk to avoid collisions

September 29th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Scientists claim to have unravelled the mystery surrounding the developmental origin of specialized skin cells involved in touch sensation. Merkel cells are neuroendocrine cells that reside in the vertebrate epidermis, passing mechanical stimuli on to sensory neurons.

September 22nd, 2009 WASHINGTON - Researchers at Ohio State University, led by an Indian-origin scientist, have developed a mathematical model of chronic wound healing that could do away with guesswork and clearly suggest treatment strategies towards tackling a major public-health problem. The researchers are the first to publish a mathematical model of an ischemic wound - a chronic wound that heals slowly or is in danger of never healing because it is fed by an inadequate blood supply.

September 16th, 2009 WASHINGTON - The ancient city of Rome can now be virtually built within a matter of hours, thanks to a new computer algorithm developed by an Indian-origin University of Washington researcher. The new program can digitise hundreds of pictures of the city, including the Colosseum and St.

September 4th, 2009 NY researchers give ladybugs a birds-and-bees talkITHACA, N.Y. — A year after they launched a nationwide search for dwindling native ladybugs, New York researchers are breeding colonies of them from insects found by citizen scientists in Oregon and Colorado.

August 22nd, 2009 WASHINGTON - A scientist of Indian origin has created a new supercomputer, called Cystorm, which can carry out 28.16 trillion calculations per second. Cystorm, a Sun Microsystems machine, was developed by Srinivas Aluru from the Iowa State University.

August 15th, 2009 WASHINGTON - In a new research, scientists have found that the large-scale autumn bloom of microscopic marine algae known as phytoplankton in the southwest Indian Ocean was driven by diatoms in 2005, not by nitrogen-fixing blue-green algae. The observations were made by researchers based at the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton (NOCS), during a 2005 hydrographic survey south and east of Madagascar while aboard the royal research ship RRS Discovery.

August 12th, 2009 LONDON - Researchers in Germany have devised a technology which activates the horns of parked cars in case of disaster. The technology is based on the eCall emergency system which new cars will be equipped with from September 2010.

August 8th, 2009 WASHINGTON - People get happier as they age and exert more emotional control than younger adults, say researchers. "Life expectancy changed because people changed the way they lived," said Dr Lauren Carstensen.

July 28th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Forming an international team with US experts, an IIT Kharagpur researcher is developing a new in-car yawn-detection system that will keep an eye on a driver while behind the wheel. Aurobinda Routray and his colleagues - including Indian-origin researchers Aurobinda Mishra of Vanderbilt University and Mihir Mohanty of ITER - say that their system will warn a drive to pull over and take a break when he/she starts to yawn.

July 28th, 2009 WASHINGTON - A team of researchers led by Indian origin scientist has come up with a potential new treatment for spinal muscular atrophy, the second-leading cause of infant mortality in the world. Ravindra Singh, associate professor in biomedical sciences at Iowa State University's College of Veterinary Medicine said that more than 95 percent of the sufferers have a mutated or deleted gene called Survival Motor Neuron 1 (SMN1) that doesn't correctly do its job of creating functional SMN proteins.

July 27th, 2009 MELBOURNE - A young Indian origin TV journalist was threatened and attacked after she went underground to reveal migration and education scams in Australia. Many foreign students, mostly Indians have become victims of migration and education rackets in Australia.

July 14th, 2009 SYDNEY - A set of algorithms developed by Indian origin researchers will enable robotic cars to communicate with one another and avoid collisions. Bhibhya Sharma of the University of South Pacific, headquartered in Fiji, who led the research, said that the series of equations would instruct robotic cars when and how to merge lanes, which could lead to fewer accidents and ease traffic congestion.

June 27th, 2009 LONDON - A team of researchers led by a scientist of Indian origin has created new 'superatoms' with magnetic properties for the first time, a breakthrough that could be used to make "spintronic devices", faster computer processors and denser memory storage. According to a report in New Scientist, the research was led by Shiv Khanna from Virginia Commonwealth University.

June 4th, 2009 WASHINGTON - A team of Indian-origin researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have modelled a fast, ultra-broadband, low-power radio chip on the human inner ear. Rahul Sarpeshkar, associate professor of electrical engineering and computer science, and his graduate student Soumyajit Mandal say that their device may enable wireless devices capable of receiving cell phone, Internet, radio and television signals.

April 27th, 2009 Ohio study with hobby planes looks at bird strikesHURON, Ohio — Researchers want to fly remote-controlled airplanes near Lake Erie to determine whether lighting systems could scare away birds and cut down the number of mid-air collisions with flying fowl. Wildlife biologists hope the study will help them understand more about how birds react to planes.