London, October 3: An international team of U. S. and Hong Kong researchers, including an Indian-origin scientist, has shown that it is possible to train insects to perform certain behaviours when enticed with different smells.

Researchers from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), and the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) taught a particular species of moth, Manduca sexta, to extend its proboscis in anticipation of a dollop of sucrose after being given a scent cue.

London, Oct 3: California officials said that they have discovered body parts inside the wreckage of Steve Fossett’s plane in the Sierra Nevada mountains, the record-breaking aviator who vanished just over a year ago.

The finding may question the rumors making rounds on the net that the billionaire adventurer faked his own death in last September's crash.

Federal investigators from the national transport safety board said they had identified "a very small" amount of remains – but judged it was enough to provide DNA to coroners, reports Telegraph.

London, Oct 3: Austrian incest fiend Josef Fritzl is planning to sell his properties in a bid to raise money for his tormented family, it has emerged.

The 73-year-old retired engineer and property developer imprisoned his daughter Elisabeth, 42, in a purpose-built dungeon in the cellar of his home in the town of Amstetten for more than 24 years, and fathered seven kids with her.

One of Elisabeth’s children died shortly after being born – and Fritzl burned his body in a heating oven.

London, Oct 2: Researchers at the University of Missouri have actually watched the HIV-1 protease mature from an inactive form into an active infection.

This is the first time the process has been directly seen.

"We actually saw the process occur. This is something that has never been done before. We now understand more about the maturation process. We hope this will be a stepping stone to intervening before the infection progresses," Nature quoted Chun Tang, assistant professor of biochemistry in the MU School of Medicine, as saying.

London, October 2: Engineers in the UK have developed a new kind of thermometer that is tough enough to measure the temperature inside big explosions, while managing to survive the powerful impacts as well.

According to a report in New Scientist, the thermometer, developed by the UK’s National Physical Laboratory, comprises of an optical fibre protected inside a steel tube with one end exposed picks up thermal radiation that reveals the temperature inside an explosive fireball.

Conventional temperature sensors such as thermocouples, which measure the voltage produced when a metal is subject to a temperature gradient, are too slow to react and are easily damaged.

London, Oct 2: A genetic variant believed to be associated with dyslexia can be partly blamed for poor reading ability, according to anew study.

The researchers from University of Oxford have found that people carrying the key sequence tended to perform worse than average in tests of their reading ability, however, there was no impact on general intelligence.

Previous studies have identified at least six candidate genes that appear to affects likelihood of developing dyslexia, a learning difficulty, which affects the development of literacy and language skills.

Out of which, a gene called KIAA0319, which lies on chromosome six was discovered to be the most likely candidate.