Free SMS service “Jaxtr SMS” launched by Hotmail co-founder!!!

Hotmail was so well-liked by users that Microsoft acquired it for around $400 million. Now Hotmail co-founder Sabeer Bhatia is hoping for similar success with Jaxtr SMS, a free text messaging service.Jaxtr - owned by Bhatia and his partner Yogesh Patel - is a cross-platform texting application that lets users send SMSes to anyone in the world for free."We have developed this application that runs on all mobile applications in the world, including iPhones, Androids, Blackberrys, J2MEs, where one...

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Astonishing bionic enables blind to see

If you are blind or any of your relatives are blind you don’t need to worry as Limited trials of a bionic eye that could restore sight to the blind have produced "astonishing" results, says a new study.The tiny implantable microchip permitted patients, who had given up on seeing again, read a clock and identify daily objects.The wafer-thin device is to be implanted for the first time in Oxfordand London, with surgery scheduled within weeks, the Daily Mail reported.RetinaIf these and similar operations...

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Bat Plant shows cancer-fighting potential!!

Bat plant, or Tacca chantrieri, could be used to fight cancer, according to researchers with The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio.The researchers have pinpointed the cancer-fighting potential in the plant.Susan Mooberry, Ph.D., leader of the Experimental Development Therapeutics Program at the Cancer Therapy and ResearchCenter and a professor of pharmacology in the School of Medicine at the UT Health Science Center, has been working to isolate substances in the plant, looking...

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Cellphone batteries to recharge in 15 minutes!!!

If you are having problem due to discharge of your’s cell phone battery., it sounds like there will come out a solution very soon.Scientists are closer to developing a cellphone battery that will take just 15 minutes to recharge and last more than a week.A team of Northwestern University engineers created an electrode for lithium-ion batteries, used in cellphones and iPods that allow holding a charge up to ten times greater than current technology. Batteries with the new electrode also can...

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New experiment shows neutrinos travel faster than light

An improved re-run of the experiment that appeared to show faster-than-light travel was possible has produced the same result. In September, CERN's OPERA experiment found that neutrinos were traveling to the Italian measuring station at San Grasso about 20 parts per million faster than the speed of light.Since then, the team has rechecked many aspects of its analysis, taking other scientists' suggestions into account.One of the most important tests, now completed, was to repeat the measurement with...

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Dental cleanings reduce heart attack risk

Are you visiting dentist regularly? If not start it from now onwards as the recent research suggested that dental cleanings reduce heart attack. People who have their teeth scraped and cleaned had lowered their heart attack and stroke risk by 24 and 13 percent respectively, compared to those who never had a dental cleaning.These findings are based on a Taiwanese study of a database of more than 100,000 people who underwent dental cleaning and were followed for an average of seven years.Scientists...

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Pomegranate juice beneficial for kidney and heart disease patients

Washington, Nov 12 : If you wants to be healthy and free from kidney and heart disease start drinking the pomegranate juice daily. Recent research has shown that, Pomegranate juice, which is rich in antioxidants, offers a wide variety of health benefits to kidney disease patients including managing blood pressure and lowering cholesterol, a new study has claimed. Lilach Shema and her colleagues from the Western Galilee Medical Center in Israel investigated the long-term effects of drinking...

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Foetus can sense mum's mental condition

Washington, Nov 11: If you or your wife is pregnant and wants to give birth to a healthy child than you should be healthy yourself. The recent research shows that the mentality of pregnant mother affects the health of child. A growing foetus is bombarded with messages from its mom -- not just about heartbeats but also chemical signals, including those about the mother's mental state, through the placentaFoetus.A new study finds that if the mother is depressed, it affects how the baby develops after...

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