DoS attack refers to denial-of-service attack, while DDoS refers to distributed denial-of-service attack (DDoS attack). DoS is an attempt to make a machine or network resource unavailable to...
Envisat or the Environmental Satellite was an Earth-observing satellite of the European Space Agency (ESA) whose mission has ended in May 2012. It was launched in 2002 from...
Statins are a class of medicines, used to lower cholesterol levels by inhibiting the enzyme HMG-CoA reductase, which plays a central role in the production of cholesterol in...
Marvin(Mobile Autonomous Robotic Vehicle for Indoor Navigation) is an automobile robot that can carry out transport, security and entertainment tasks in office environment as well as in industrial...
Scientists have discovered a species of chameleon so small it can balance on the tip of a match. The miniature lizard – Brookesia micra – reaches a maximum...
Bacillus stratosphericus is the name of a bacterium that is commonly found in high concentrations in the stratosphere. This bacterium was recently in news as the researchers have...
LEISH-F3 + GLA-SE is the name of first vaccine, which was sent on trials against Kala-Azar in India and US recently. Infectious Disease Research Institute (IDRI), a Seattle-based...
Recently, a 32000 years old Ice Age flower blossomed again. Silene stenophylla is a species of flowering plant that grows in the Arctic tundra of far eastern Siberia...
GJ1214b is a so called super-Earth orbiting a red dwarf star 40 light-years from our planet, is covered by a steamy atmosphere. It was discovered in 2009 but...
Isabella Island is an island nature reserve, with an area of 11.4 ha, in south-eastern Australia. It is part of Tasmania’s Big Green Island Group. It was recently...