London, Aug 7 : Digital cameras would soon be more humanised, what with a new technology that can produce images with a wider field of view, just like the human eye.

In a collaborative study, Yonggang Huang, Joseph Cummings Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Mechanical Engineering and John Rogers, the Flory-Founder Chair Professor of Materials Science and Engineering have created array of silicon detectors and electronics that can be conformed to a curved surface.

Thus, just like the human eye, the curved surface can act as the focal plane array of the camera, which captures an image.

London, August 7 : A scientist has suggested that the world should be prepared to face an alarming increase of 4 degree Celsius in global temperatures.

A report in The Guardian said that this was suggested by agriculture and coastal erosion Professor Bob Watson, who is one of the UK government’s chief scientific advisers.

In policy areas such as flood protection, UK should plan for the effects of a 4C global average rise on pre-industrial levels, said Watson.

Globally, a 4C temperature rise would have a catastrophic impact.

According to the government’s 2006 Stern review on the economics of climate change, between 7 million and 300 million more people would be affected by coastal flooding each year.

London, August 7 : Scientists studying material collected by NASA’s Stardust mission during its seven years in space have been unable to find any sample of interstellar dust till date.

The Stardust probe launched in 1999 and visited a comet called Wild 2, collecting space dust in a honeycomb matrix of gel.

According to a report in New Scientist, new data showed that Stardust’s first six candidate dust particles originated much closer to home, with most coming from Earth or the spacecraft itself.

Most of the dust collected comes from the comet, but NASA scientists estimate it may have also picked up as many as 45 pieces of dust that originated outside the solar system.

London, Aug 7 : If sources close to former Pakistan premier Nawaz Sharif are to be believed, at the “make-or-break” meeting between Nawaz and PPP Co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari, it was decided (between the two leaders) to impeach President Pervez Musharraf and force him to step down from the Presidency.

Quoting Nawaz Sharif’s spokesman Ahsan Iqbal, The Times Online reported that it is confirmed that Musharraf will be impeached soon, and the decision agreed upon between Nawaz and Zardari would be made public at a press conference later in the day.

London, August 7 : A new study suggests that it is not certain that a rich and powerful father will definitely ensure a socially dominant status for his sons and grandsons through gene transfer.

Joseph Watkins, a mathematician at the University of Arizona in Tucson, joined forces with a team of anthropologists and geneticists to sift through the DNA of 1269 males from 41 Indonesian communities, to determine whether dominance could last more than a couple generations.

The researchers concentrated on stretches of the male-inherited Y chromosome that change little from generation to generation, and it allowed them to peer back more than 3000 years.

London, Aug 6 : Computer gaming experts have launched a new online game which shows how London could look if hit by a major flood.