Technology News for June 27, 2008

Scientists find features of mammalian sleep in birds
American scientists have unearthed evidence of mammalian-like sleep in birds by studying zebra flinches. ANI

Measuring living primates teeth can reveal clues to behavior of early human ancestors
A new research is measuring and testing the teeth of living primates to find clues to the behavior of the earliest human ancestors, based on their fossilized remains. ANI

Worlds first space telescope to detect and track asteroids as well as satellites
Canadian scientists are building the worlds first space telescope designed to detect and track asteroids as well as satellites. ANI

Move over .com and get ready for .sex, .hotel or .sports
Come 2009, and almost any word will be able to replace .com in a Web page address - thanks to a decision made by the organization that manages the technical underpinnings of the Web, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, (ICANN). ANI

Siamese twin galaxies in a gentle gravitational embrace
Astronomers at Gemini Observatory have imaged two nearly identical spiral galaxies in Virgo, which is 90 million light years away, in the early stages of a gentle gravitational embrace. ANI

Heres how snails walk on waters surface
US researchers say that they have figured out how some snails extraordinarily crawl upside down at the waters surface, which they cannot actually grip. ANI

Archaeologists find 5,000-year-old jewellery workshop in Cyprus
Archaeologists have uncovered what appears to have been a jewellery workshop during excavations at a 5,000-year old settlement in Cyprus. ANI

Paris is 3,000 years older than earlier believed
An archaeological dig has moved back the first known human occupation of Paris to about 7600 BC, which is more than 3,000 years older than earlier thought. ANI

Liver-produced starvation hormone stunts growth of mice
Scientists at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center have discovered that chronically high levels of a liver-produced starvation hormone, known as FGF21, significantly stop the growth of mice. ANI

New laser headband may revolutionise Alzheimers screening
Physicians would now be able to easily identify the tangled proteins in brain tissue associated with Alzheimers disease in a living person- thanks to a new laser headband, developed by scientists at the VA Medical Center, Massachusetts, US. ANI

Bats vocal sonar also helps it form spatial memory
A researcher at the University of Maryland, College Park, says that studying the vocal sonar of bats may help gain significantly deeper understanding of mechanisms in the human brain, as well as benefit human health. ANI

5,000-yr-old human skull found at Isle of Man airport
A prehistoric human skull, dating back to 5,000 years has been found, together with remains relating to a Neolithic house, during works on a runway extension project at the Isle of Man airport. ANI

Biologists redraw entire bird evolutionary tree
A new study by biologists has completely redrawn the bird evolutionary tree, with the largest study of bird genetics ever completed. ANI

Dogs can sniff ovarian cancers specific scent
Dogs can detect ovarian cancers specific scent, researchers from the University Hospital in Goteborg, Sweden, have found. ANI

Facebook concepts show Alzheimers patients brains arent so networked
The brains of people with Alzheimers disease are less well connected than the brains of people without the disorder, says a new research, which was based on concepts borrowed from Facebook. ANI

Plants climbing mountains to cope up with global warming
A new study has shown that plants are climbing higher elevations on mountains to cope up with global warming. ANI

Veggies like asparagus can grow on Mars
NASAs Phoenix Mars Landers preliminary results have indicated that the soil near the North Pole of the Red Planet is surprisingly earthlike, which is ripe for growing vegetables like asparagus. ANI

Scientists move a step closer to realising quantum computers
Electrical and computer engineers in the US have created a hybrid molecule in which its quantum state can be intentionally manipulated, something that is considered to be a very necessary step in the building of quantum computers that can process exponentially more information than the existing machines. ANI