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Skype has launched an instant translator. The new Star Trek-style translator is set to break down all our language barriers. Now, the company has launched the first preview of the app, which will initially translate calls between English and Spanish before expanding into other languages. The Skype Translator Preview app works by either adding real-time subtitles to people's conversations, or actually playing an audio translation of the foreign language dialogue to the person on the other end. At the inaugural Code Conference back in June, Gurdeep Pall, the Vice President of Skype Translator demonstrated the subtitle software with a colleague in Germany. Although there appeared to be a few teething problems, as you can see in the demonstration below, the ability is generally pretty mind-blowing. The company is now marketing Skype Translator as a tool that will help schools around the world communicate, and has tested it in the US and Mexico. It's also translating instant mes

Cutting a baby’s umbilical cord 2 minutes later can improve development A new study has found that delaying cutting the umbilical cord by just two minute leads to better development of a baby during its first days of life. Usually, as soon as a child is born, the doctors quickly check that it’s healthy and breathing properly, and then, within seconds of birth, clamp its umbilical cord and cut it off, before handing it back to the mother. But a new study conducted by the University of Granada in Spain has shown that simply delaying that process by two minutes influences how resistant to oxidative stress newborns are. Oxidative stress is an imbalance between free radicals and the baby’s antioxidant defences, and it’s associated with triggering inflammation. In the research, scientists looked at a group of 64 healthy pregnant women who went into labour in the San Cecilio Clinical Hospital in Granada. They all had a normal pregnancy and spontaneous natural deliveries, but half of thei

Taliban: We Slaughtered 100+ Kids Because Their Parents Helped America. The unprecedented slaughter Tuesday at least 132 students at a school in Peshawar, Pakistan, shows in the most gruesome possible way that the Pakistani Taliban, known as the TTP, have not yet been defeated or brought under control by the Pakistani military’s recent offensives. Certainly that was the objective of the attack: The school is a private one run by the army for the children of soldiers. “The TTP is ready for a long, long war against the U.S. puppet state of Pakistan,” a TTP commander told me when I reached him on his Afghan cellphone. “We are just displaced, but we are still in positions to attack wherever we want,” said Jihad Yar Wazir. Yar Wazir justified the killings as fitting retribution. “The parents of the army school are army soldiers and they are behind the massive killing of our kids and indiscriminate bombing in North and South Waziristan,” which are the TTP strongholds. “To hurt them at the

A New Physics Theory of Life Why does life exist? Popular hypotheses credit a primordial soup, a bolt of lightning and a colossal stroke of luck. But if a provocative new theory is correct, luck may have little to do with it. Instead, according to the physicist proposing the idea, the origin and subsequent evolution of life follow from the fundamental laws of nature and “should be as unsurprising as rocks rolling downhill.” From the standpoint of physics, there is one essential difference between living things and inanimate clumps of carbon atoms: The former tend to be much better at capturing energy from their environment and dissipating that energy as heat. Jeremy England, a 31-year-old assistant professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has derived a mathematical formula that he believes explains this capacity. The formula, based on established physics, indicates that when a group of atoms is driven by an external source of energy (like the sun or chemical fuel) and

This plane will be able to fly anywhere in the world within 4 hours The engine will be able to fly in outer space too. British aerospace firm Reaction Engines Limited is working on an engine system that will be able to take 300 passengers anywhere in the world in just four hours. Even more impressively, the engine will also be used to fly a plane in outer space, as Business Insider reports. The engine system is called SABRE, and it relies on a device called the precooler - technology that cools down the air entering the engineer system by more than 1,000 degrees Celsius in .01 seconds. That corresponds to an unheard-of cooling rate of 400 megawatts, and will allow the plane to “breathe” oxygen. This means that the engine system will be able to run at a much higher power than is currently possible According to Reaction Engines, SABRE will be used inside two upcoming plane models - LAPCAT A2, a commercial plane that will be able to transport passengers from Brussels to Sydney in &q

Thousands of Einstein documents are available online for free Princeton University in the US has launched the Digital Einstein Papers project - an open-access site that will deliver the extensive written legacy of Albert Einstein to the public. The New York Times calls them "the Dead Sea Scrolls of physics”, and they’re on their way to being publicly available - the 80,000 documents left behind by Albert Einstein. When he died in 1955, Einstein bequeathed the copyright of his writings and correspondence to Princeton University Press and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel. Over the past three decades these institutions have been analysing and publishing the texts - which span from the years of Einstein's youth to 1923 - and just last week announced that they would now be distributing them for free. "Starting on Friday, when Digital Einstein is introduced, anyone with an Internet connection will be able to share in the letters, papers, postcards, notebooks and

Researchers find a relationship between sleep cycle, cancer incidence People who work around the clock could actually be setting themselves back, according to Virginia Tech biologists. Researchers found that a protein responsible for regulating the body's sleep cycle, or circadian rhythm, also protects the body from developing sporadic forms of cancers. "The protein, known as human period 2, has impaired function in the cell when environmental factors, including sleep cycle disruption, are altered," said Carla Finkielstein, an associate professor of biological sciences in the College of Science, Fralin Life Science Institute affiliate, and a Virginia Bioinformatics Institute Fellow. Supported by a National Science Foundation CAREER award and the Fralin Life Science Institute, the work was published in October in the print edition of the journal Molecular Biology of the Cell, with Tetsuya Gotoh, a research scientist in Finkielstein's lab, as lead author. Specifica

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E-cigarettes can contain up to 10 times the carcinogens of cigarettes New research has revealed that e-cigarettes can contain up to 10 times the amount of carcinogens of regular cigarettes, which has brought the claim that these devices are a healthier alternative to smoking into serious contention. A government-funded study in Japan has revealed that e-cigarettes - electronic devices designed to replace traditional cigarettes - contain high levels of chemicals that have been linked to the development of cancer. E-cigarettes contain flavoured liquid, which is heated electronically and the resulting vapour inhaled to produce a tobacco flavour without the harmful smoke. According to Justin McCurry at The Guardian, researchers from the Health Ministry of Japan decided to investigate this liquid by testing several brand of e-cigarettes using a machine that inhaled 10 sets of 15 puffs. They discovered that several brands contain the known carcinogens formaldehyde and acetaldehyde. "