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Jade

Jade has written 186 posts for Science and lifestyle
Google Glass

Introducing New Google Glass Features

In a bid to make the device more consumer friendly, the makers of Google Glass have made software updates on the device. Subsequently, this version of Google Glass would be known as XE5. This is a development of the project Glass, whose research and development have resulted in the addition of these new feature.

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Cost – Saving Grocery Delivery Services are Friendlier to the Environment

There is a better way to buy your groceries. It will not only save you time and gas money, but it also is friendlier to the environment. Consumers can order their groceries online from the comfort of their home and have them delivered. Utilizing these services promotes a greener environment by cutting down on carbon dioxide [...]

data center

Google Inc. to invest $390 million in upgrading its Belgian data center

The growth in demand for Google’s online services in Belgium has made the company recently announce that it will invest a further $390 million in the country’s facility. This amount will be channeled to the upgrading of the data center in Belgium that has over the recent past received more traffic than it can sufficiently [...]

Invention by Daniel Perlman Prevents Wipers Freezing to Windshield

Senior scientific researcher Daniel Perlman has about 100 published patented works to his name, with only but a few still pending. He is a specialist in applied research with his recent focus being on nutritionally enhanced food products and clinical laboratory. It is important to note that his specialty of research cuts across the fields [...]

chimpanzees

Dangers of Taming rare wild animals as pets

The world is slowly trending towards wild animals as pets, which no one ever thought could be the case. Animals such as chimpanzees, long-necked turtles, bears and poisonous frogs are on the verge of extinction as more and more people are taming them as pets. Hunters are now paid handsomely to collect wild pets, which [...]

Potato

Potato cultivation improved using new genetic mechanism

Potato have been considered as the important of our daily diet. It was these potatoes that helped man kind to survive through some of the greatest famines and hard times. Some of those people have survived long enough to bring new revolutions to the world by just feeding of potato soup. Potatoes where initially growing [...]

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Organic produce accumulates high sugar levels, vitamin C and pigment molecules

According to research findings published in the ‘open access’ journal PLOS ONE on February 20, organic tomatoes accumulate more vitamin C, sugars and compounds which’re associated with oxidative-stress compared to conventionally-grown fruit. The research which was published by Alcantra Miranda, Maria Raquel and other researchers from the Federal-University of Ceara, Brazil involved comparing weight and [...]

Chrysler

Effect of Ethanol–Unleaded Gasoline Blends on Engine Performance and Exhaust Emission

Ethanol – the pure alchocol has many uses. Besides being an alhocolic beverage it is widely used as fuel. It mostly has good effects on engine performance but not so good on exhaust emission. Basics: Ethanol, also called ethyl alcohol, pure alcohol, grain alcohol, or drinking alcohol, is a volatile, flammable, colorless liquid. A psychoactive [...]

hydrotropic technique

Using hydrotropic technique to do gardening in space

Plants are the main basic to life all over the globe. Plants perform the major processes that support life. It converts carbon dioxide and sun light under the process of photosynthesis to produce starch and oxygen. Oxygen is an essential element in animal life. Without oxygen, there is no life. Plants regulate the amount of [...]

children in pre-school

Does diet, parental behaviour and preschool have an effect on children’s IQ

Believe it or not, diet, parental behaviour as well as preschool do affect your child’s IQ. How, you may ask? Findings from a research conducted by a team led by a doctoral student in the School of Culture, Education, and Human Development at NYU Steinhardt, involving a technique known as meta-analysis, showed the effect of [...]