News Fresh Today: March 2014

Monday, 31 March 2014

Spanish Researchers Testing Idea of Edible Water Bottles

Spanish researchers have come up with a blob design for a new kind of bottle through which you can not only drink water or your favorite drink, but also eat it afterwards. "This blob like container called 'Ooho' is simple, cheap, durable, hygienic, biodegradable and even edible," Rodrigo Garcia Gonzalez, one of the designers, was quoted as saying. The "Ooho" encapsulates water in a double gelatinous membrane made from brown algae and calcium chloride. ...

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CoreBrand Lists Apple as the World's Most Powerful Brand in Technology

Apple has been declared as the most powerful brand in the field of technology, a new report by CoreBrand reveals. CoreBrand's analysis, which it the most powerful tech brand, has come out with the list of 100 most elite brands list for 2014. Apple was ranked in the 10th spot, which was the most highest-ranking tech brand. It took the No. 10 spot on the overall list, marking a significant growth from 2013 when it was 18th and 2009 when it ...

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Full Moon's 'Magic Powers' Turn People into Lunatics?

A new study has found that people often sleep less deeply on full moon and often have 'weird and bizarre' dreams, Daily Star reported. Top sleep scientist Richard Wiseman said that at Full Moon, people dream they are Superman but at other times they dream of just being in the office. According to the study, police and hospital workers say that people are wilder at this time and there is a hike in strange accidents. One myth says the Moon ...

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Scale of Guinea's Ebola epidemic unprecedented: aid agency

CONAKRY (Reuters) - Guinea faces an Ebola epidemic on an unprecedented scale as it battles to contain confirmed cases now scattered across several locations that are far apart, medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres said on Monday.

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Scale of Guinea's Ebola epidemic unprecedented: aid agency

By Saliou Samb CONAKRY (Reuters) - Guinea faces an Ebola epidemic on an unprecedented scale as it battles to contain confirmed cases now scattered across several locations that are far apart, medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres said on Monday. The warning from an organisation used to tackling Ebola in Central Africa comes after Guinea's president appealed for calm as the number of deaths linked to an outbreak on the border with Liberia and Sierra Leone hit 80. The outbreak of one of the world's most lethal infectious diseases has spooked a number of governments with weak health systems, prompting Senegal to close its border with Guinea and other neighbours to restrict travel and cross-border exchanges. Figures released overnight by Guinea's health ministry showed that there had been 78 deaths from 122 cases of suspected Ebola since January, up from 70.

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American Researchers Claim to Have Found a Way to Read People's Minds

Mind reading has so far been limited to science fiction but American researchers claim to have found a breakthrough which they say will help them find a way to read other people's minds. In the study, researchers Alan S. Cowen, a graduate student at the University of California Berkeley, Marvin M. Chun from Yale and Brice A. Kuhl from New York University, have used fMRI brain scanners to detect and reconstruct the faces that people are thinking of, Fox News reported. ...

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