1. Scientists have identified a drug that extends egg viability in worms and could theoretically extend women's fertility by three to six years.
2. Alcatel has launched an army of devices a day before the onset of the MWC 2018 conference. The company has unveiled as many as five smartphones and two tablets. The smartphone list includes Alcatel 5, 1X, 3, 3X and 3V while the tablets are the Alcatel 1T 7 and 1T 10.
3. A team led by researchers from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay has developed an inexpensive, flexible pressure sensor that can be used for a variety of health-care applications. The piezoresistive pressure sensor could efficiently monitor even small-scale movements caused by low-pressure variations.
4. Nearly 33 per cent of people, specially the younger generation that has grown up in a digital world, care more for their smartphones over engaging with individuals they love and India tops the list with 47 per cent, a report said on Saturday. The study by telecommunications company Motorola, which is developed in partnership with Nancy Etcoff -- expert in 'Mind-Brain Behaviour and the Science of Happiness', from Harvard University.
5. A new analysis of data from India’s Chandrayaan-1 mission and NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter suggests that Moon’s water may be widely distributed across the surface, not confined to a particular region or type of terrain.
6. Researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi have for the first time developed a 3D scar-tissue model through tissue engineering.
7. India's premier defence research institute DRDO today carried out "successful" test flight of its Rustom 2 drone, a medium-altitude long-endurance unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), at Chalakere in Karnataka's Chitradurga district.
8. The World Health Organisation (WHO), in its latest set of guidelines for combating tuberculosis, has recommended scaling up access to testing and treatment for the disease, especially among groups who are at risk, such as children and people with HIV. The recommendations also include two new shorter treatment regimens for latent TB infection (LTBI).
9. A research team from the University of Hyderabad has developed a medicine that efficiently kills the plasmodium falciparum parasite that causes malaria.
10. After its failure to inject into the orbit the eighth of the navigation satellite, IRNSS-1H that was to replace the faulty IRNSS-1A in the Indian Navigation Satellite Constellation or NavIC in August last year, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is gearing up to launch another IRNSS satellite in April.
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