(left to right): DAVIDE BONAZZI/SALZMAN ART; WILLIAM B. LATTER (SIRTF SCIENCE CENTER/CALTECH) AND NASA/ESA; nobeastsofierce/shutterstock.com By Alex FoxApr. 19, 2019 , 3:10 PM How long…
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Turtle Rock Scientific/Science Source By Robert F. ServiceApr. 19, 2019 , 3:05 PM Solid-state batteries, which use solids instead of liquids to ferry ions through…
The Houston Chronicle By Mara HvistendahlApr. 19, 2019 , 12:00 PM HOUSTON, TEXAS—The MD Anderson Cancer Center here has ousted three senior researchers after the…
San Francisco: A day after admitting it “unintentionally” uploaded emails of nearly 1.5 million of new users, Facebook has now revealed that millions of Instagram…
DARIA KIRPACH/@SALZMANART By Lizzie WadeApr. 18, 2019 , 4:45 PM The Society for American Archaeology (SAA) continues to battle fallout for the way it handled…
Carefull in Wyoming/Flickr This week we have two interviews from the annual meeting of AAAS in Washington D.C.: one on the history of food and…
By Jon CohenApr. 18, 2019 , 2:00 PM Like millions of people in the United States last year, Stanley Plotkin and his wife got vaccinated…
Tandem solar cells with two layers of perovskites aim to replace conventional silicon solar cells. iStock.com/DiyanaDimitrova By Robert F. ServiceApr. 18, 2019 , 2:00 PM…
© Stephanie Ware/Field Museum By Helen SantoroApr. 18, 2019 , 1:15 PM Some insects are easy to tell apart. Others, not so much. Some flat-backed…
Brent Woodfill By Lizzie WadeApr. 18, 2019 , 11:05 AM ALBUQUERQUE, NEW MEXICO—Archaeologists working in Guatemala have discovered the largest known figurine workshop in the…
Scientists say they can analyze genetic variations to predict who is most at risk of becoming obese. iStock.com/Rostislav_Sedlacek By Giorgia GuglielmiApr. 18, 2019 , 11:00…
New Delhi: The country’s telecom subscriber base grew marginally to 120.5 crore on account of a net addition of customers by Reliance Jio and state-owned…
San Francisco: In a bid to take on Amazon Alexa or Google Home, Facebook is working on a voice-based assistant for its Portal video chat…
MAURICIO ANTON By Munyaradzi MakoniApr. 18, 2019 , 12:15 AM When paleontologists dug up the bones of Africa’s largest carnivore in the early 1980s, they…
Google on Thursday yet again marked the ongoing Lok Sabha election in India with a doodle that featured an inked finger. Google had used a…
The enzyme that gives a powerful tool known as a “base editor” the ability to change DNA also has an off-target effect on RNA (above).…
A MERMAID undergoes testing off Japan’s coast in 2018. ALEX BURKY/PRINCETON UNIVERSITY By Erik StokstadApr. 17, 2019 , 3:15 PM A versatile, low-cost way to…
The black-legged tick can carry the bacterium that causes Lyme disease. ISTOCK.COM/DIETERMEYRL By Jennifer Couzin-FrankelApr. 17, 2019 , 3:00 PM Months after a U.S. Congress–mandated…
Elena Odareeva/Alamy Stock Photo By Angus ChenApr. 17, 2019 , 2:00 PM Buried within the ruins of an ancient village in central Turkey, alongside tools…
William B. Latter (SIRTF Science Center/Caltech); NASA/ESA By Daniel CleryApr. 17, 2019 , 2:00 PM The universe’s very first molecule, thought to be created after…
By Jon CohenApr. 16, 2019 , 8:25 PM Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, has exonerated “several” of its researchers who interacted with He Jiankui,…
Heat waves, like one in Australia in January, will get worse in a warming world. Matt King/Stringer/GETTY IMAGES By Paul VoosenApr. 16, 2019 , 3:55…
A head-only MRI scanner, under construction at the Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand, is one of several portable imaging devices that could raise…
Senator Chuck Grassley (R–IA) has been concerned about foreign powers poaching U.S.-funded research. BILL CLARK/CQ ROLL CALL/AP IMAGE By Jeffrey MervisApr. 15, 2019 , 5:15…
Archaeologists excavate stone tombs at Ireland’s Primrose Grange. Göran Burenhult By Michael PriceApr. 15, 2019 , 3:15 PM Archaeologists have long been fascinated by the…
[embedded content] By Alex FoxApr. 15, 2019 , 3:00 PM The gall aphid’s home repair strategy gives new meaning to the phrase “sweat equity.” These…
Plant scientist Titus Alicai at work at the National Crops Resources Research Institute in Namulonge, Uganda, which receives funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates…
Researchers aboard the JOIDES Resolution examine a newly drilled sediment core that records the history of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet. Vivien Cumming (IODP/ECORD) By…
A flyer referencing David Yesner’s attendance at the Society for American Archaeology’s annual meeting was displayed in a woman’s bathroom at the Albuquerque Convention Center…
NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University By Sid PerkinsApr. 15, 2019 , 11:15 AM When meteorites slam into the moon, they undoubtedly kick up a little dust. Now,…
A reconstruction of the bones of baby tyrannosaur Son of Sampson, which is on sale on eBay. Alan Detrich By Colin BarrasApr. 15, 2019 ,…
spiderstock/istockphoto By Alex FoxApr. 15, 2019 , 11:00 AM Microscopic fragments of plastic have invaded the farthest reaches of the sea, from the depths of…
Facebook Inc said it restored services on Sunday after some users could not access its social networking site, photo-sharing network Instagram and messaging app WhatsApp.…
Several social media platforms like Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram went down on Sunday for many users around the world. As per Downdetector.com, the website which monitors…
Health workers at an Ebola treatment center in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, which was attacked earlier this year by armed men JOHN WESSELS/AFP/GETTY…
After a lengthy process, Boston University fired geologist David Marchant in the wake of a prominent sexual harassment case. Henry Zbyszynski/Flickr (CC BY-NC 2.0) By…
(left to right): EVENT HORIZON TELESCOPE COLLABORATION ET AL.; CHRONICLE/ALAMY STOCK PHOTO; © LOUIE PSIHOYOS By Alex FoxApr. 12, 2019 , 2:05 PM For the…
By Scott Waldman, E&E NewsApr. 12, 2019 , 8:20 AM Originally published by E&E News A controversial plan by the White House to review the…
Mumbai: Reliance Jio has launched its new digital product called ‘JioNews’ in the form of a mobile application as well as web-based service. “The launch…
Thomas Jessell, pictured in 2008 after winning the Kavli Prize in Neuroscience, was ousted by Columbia University and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute for behavioral violations.…
Francis Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), at today’s hearing of a Senate panel that oversees NIH’s budget. Senate Appropriations Committee By…
Space IL and Israel Aerospace Industries By Daniel CleryApr. 11, 2019 , 4:00 PM *Update, 11 April, 4 p.m.: Beresheet’s end came too quickly. Designed…
Examining the capabilities of the U.S. nuclear arsenal is a perennial topic for the Jason. U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Ronald…
A lengthy California drought left trees and plants parched and influenced their contributions to smog. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images By Jason PlautzApr. 11, 2019 , 3:10…
Florian Schiestl The ancient humans also known as the “hobbit” people (Homo floresiensis) might have company in their small stature with the discovery of another…
Kelso et al./Science By Robert F. ServiceApr. 11, 2019 , 2:00 PM To make the ultrathin crystalline films used in everything from solar cells to…
David Goodsell packs his watercolors of HIV, Ebola, and Zika viruses with realistic details. David Goodsell (CC-BY-4.0) By Jon CohenApr. 11, 2019 , 12:55 PM…
Decades of research have failed to yield any human pheromones. © LOUIE PSIHOYOS By Kai KupferschmidtApr. 11, 2019 , 12:30 PM CHICHELEY, U.K.—Jonathan Williams mostly…
As India commenced its journey for the Lok Sabha election on Thursday, microblogging platform Twitter buzzed with conversations and debates on election hitting a tweet…
Danielle Bassett with a representation of the brain’s structural connections, created in her lab from MRI data. MATTHEW BENDER/JAMES BARTOLOZZI By Kelly ServickApr. 11, 2019…
San Francisco: Users will no longer have to download iTunes to listen to Apple’s podcast episodes with the company now allowing them to play these…
San Francisco: Google Assistant is finally coming to G Suite, starting with the Calendar app in beta within Googles enterprise platform. In a blog post,…
San Francisco: Facebook-owned messaging app Instagram has decided to demote sexually and morally vague content – video snippets, memes and pictures – which are being…
Silicon solar cells could get a boost in electrical output with a coating of perovskite materials. Lena Ason/Alamy Stock Photo By Robert F. ServiceApr. 10,…
Electron and Confocal Microscopy Unit By Helen SantoroApr. 10, 2019 , 2:25 PM While stopping and smelling the roses, keep an eye out for signs…
About 67,000 years ago, Callao Cave on Luzon in the Philippines was home to an unusual human. © CALLAO CAVE ARCHAEOLOGY PROJECT By Lizzie WadeApr.…
This image reveals the black hole at the center of Messier 87, a massive galaxy in the nearby Virgo galaxy cluster. The black hole resides 55 million…
A. Cressler By Catherine MatacicApr. 10, 2019 , 7:00 AM There are places where the world of the living brushes up against the world of…
San Francisco: Google has introduced a new open platform called “Anthos” to run and manage apps from anywhere. Based on the Cloud Services Platform that…
San Francisco: Facebook will use Artificial Intelligence (AI) to determine if a user is dead but his or her contacts keep receiving notifications like birthday…
By Jeffrey Mervis, Anne FinkbeinerApr. 9, 2019 , 7:22 PM The U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) has severed its 60-year ties to a group of…
Mayan King K’inich Janaab’ Pakal is not taking off in a spaceship in this image from his seventh century sarcophagus, but falling into the underworld.…
The closed laboratory relied on cats to sustain its research program. WHITE COAT WASTE PROJECT VIA FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT By Meredith WadmanApr. 9, 2019…
By Jeffrey MervisApr. 9, 2019 , 2:35 PM Are you a scientist who wants to take a multidisciplinary, team approach to solving an important societal…
A device that measures the oxygen levels in different brain regions. Researchers have claimed this technology can allow locked-in patients to communicate. Artinis Medical Systems/Brite…
New Delhi: Aiming to disrupt the digital imaging market, premium smartphone maker Huawei on Tuesday unveiled the Huawei P30 Pro in India for Rs 71,990,…
Mumbai: Goggle-owned YouTube on Tuesday announced India was its largest and fastest growing audience in the world with more than 265 million monthly active users.…
Brazil’s synchrotron light source, Sirius, is scheduled to launch later this year, but 80% of the funds it depends on have been frozen. Sebastiao Moreira/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock…
Jean-Pierre Luminet’s 1979 black hole visualization. Using computer data, he drew several thousand black dots on a white sheet by hand and took a photographic negative…
As we age, uncoupled brain waves scramble our short-term memory. Jackie Niam/shutterstock.com By Giorgia GuglielmiApr. 8, 2019 , 11:00 AM To read this sentence, you…
Sydney Brenner Andrew Cutraro/Redux By Jennifer Couzin-FrankelApr. 5, 2019 , 3:50 PM Sydney Brenner, the Nobel laureate whose studies on the roundworm Caenorhabditis elegans led…
(left to right): THE JOHN CARTER BROWN LIBRARY AT BROWN UNIVERSITY; ROGER HART/UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN PHOTOGRAPHY; JULIO LACERDA/STUDIO 252MYA By Alex FoxApr. 5, 2019 ,…
Clinical studies are testing whether cancer immunotherapy drugs work better when patients receive a fecal transplant. Jeff McIntosh/The Canadian Press/AP Photo By Jocelyn KaiserApr. 5,…
Artist impressions show Hayabusa2 releasing the Small Carry-on Impactor (left) and the projectile hitting the asteroid, with an observation camera in the foreground and Hayabusa2…
An aerial shot of Aleppo, Syria, taken by a U-2 spy plane in 1959 E. Hammer et al., Advances in Archaeological Practice 10.1017 (2019) By…
By Warren CornwallApr. 5, 2019 , 11:25 AM When the Deepwater Horizon oil well spewed at least 518 million liters of oil into the Gulf…
Applying mild electrical pulses may help plastic surgeons reshape noses without a scalpel. Gerain0812/shutterstock.com By Robert F. ServiceApr. 5, 2019 , 10:55 AM ORLANDO, FLORIDA—Plastic…
James Petiver, 1695 A single factory in Malaysia supplies about 10% of the world’s rare earth oxides, used in everything from cellphones to lasers to…
Astronomers have discovered a small planet around a white dwarf, which in this artist’s conception is plowing through a disk of dust and leaving a…
[embedded content] By Elizabeth PennisiApr. 4, 2019 , 2:00 PM Bigger than a poppy seed but smaller than a sesame seed—and about as featureless to…
Census Bureau Director Steven Dillingham touted the agency’s planning for the 2020 census at a press event this week. Michele R. Freda/U.S. Census Bureau By…
By Sam KeanApr. 4, 2019 , 10:00 AM At the dawn of the 1700s, European science seemed poised to conquer all of nature. Isaac Newton…
[embedded content] By David GrimmApr. 4, 2019 , 9:00 AM Give this a shot at home: Say four random words to your cat—separated by about…
Fish expert Larry Page of the Florida Museum in Gainesville shows off a standard setup for making digital images of specimens. Kristen Grace/Florida Museum By…
Heather Proctor By Helen SantoroApr. 4, 2019 , 8:00 AM Some things can’t be unseen. One is the final meal of a feather mite, a…
Mumbai: Apple Inc has cut prices of one of its latest iPhones in India by around one-fourth, sources said, as the U.S. tech giant looks…
New Delhi: Telecom regulator Trai Wednesday directed operators to submit before it all tariff plans that they offer to select segments of customers at the…
Future reserves could bar deep-sea trawlers from much of the high seas. © GREENPEACE/ROGER GRACE By Alex FoxApr. 3, 2019 , 8:01 PM No flag…
carolo7/iStockphoto By Jeffrey BrainardApr. 3, 2019 , 5:00 PM A U.S. federal judge has ordered the OMICS International publishing group to pay $50.1 million in…
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency By Robert F. ServiceApr. 3, 2019 , 2:45 PM ORLANDO, FLORIDA—An estimated 18 million Americans are at risk of lead leaching…
New Delhi: Giving an impetus to its India manufacturing plans, Apple has started the assembling of iPhone 7 at its supplier Wistron’s facility in Bengaluru.…
New Delhi: After arriving on Reliance JioPhones in September 2018, messaging app WhatsApp is now available on Nokia’s ‘8110’ with India becoming the first market…
Roger Hart/University of Michigan Photography By Helen SantoroApr. 2, 2019 , 7:01 PM Texting while driving can be deadly. So can tweeting while flying, a…
Oklahoma Attorney General Mike Hunter (left) joins Oklahoma State University medical school President Kayse Shrum (right) to announce the settlement. Oklahoma State University Center for…
An artist’s impression of what Earth looked like during the Snowball Earth glaciations. Julio Lacerda/Studio 252MYA By Lucas JoelApr. 2, 2019 , 10:50 AM More…
Ashley M. Rasys and Hannah C. Schriever By Jon CohenApr. 1, 2019 , 4:45 PM The mighty genome editor CRISPR isn’t so powerful in lizards…
About 30% of the 1.5 million tons of residue stored on Lynas’s facility in Malaysia is slightly radioactive and covered with a black lining. Save…
National Academy of Sciences President Marcia McNutt addressed sexual harassment in science on Capitol Hill last month. Cable Risdon By Meredith WadmanApr. 1, 2019 ,…
courtesy of Robert DePalma By Colin BarrasApr. 1, 2019 , 10:50 AM A fossil site in North Dakota records a stunningly detailed picture of the…
San Francisco: Google’s email service Gmail that has nearly 1.5 billion monthly active users turned 15 on Monday. Created by Paul Buchheit on April 1,…
San Francisco: Microsoft has quietly introduced a new version of its 13-inch “Surface Book 2” base model with Intels latest 8th Gen quad-core i5 processor,…
Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Andrew Wheeler dismissed an auxiliary panel of air pollution experts last fall. Cliff Owen/AP Photo By Sean Reilly, E&E NewsMar. 29,…
(Left to right): UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI IN ST. LOUIS/ST. LOUIS PUBLIC RADIO/CAROLINA HIDALGO; V. ALTOUNIAN/SCIENCE; JASON IRVING By Alex FoxMar. 29, 2019 , 3:20 PM…
[embedded content] By Edd GentMar. 29, 2019 , 3:10 PM Robot swarms could revolutionize everything from search and rescue missions to mining, but figuring out…
The walls of the Joint European Torus fusion reactor are lined with the same materials in the ITER, a much larger fusion reactor under construction. ©EUROfusion…
Thousands in Mozambique have been displaced by Cyclone Idai, one of the biggest ever to hit the flood-prone country. MIKE HUTCHINGS/REUTERS By Jeffrey BrainardMar. 29,…
Charged particles zipping through water in a nuclear reactor produce Cherenkov radiation. Argonne National Laboratory/Wikimedia commons (CC BY-SA 2.0) By Adrian ChoMar. 29, 2019 ,…
Ethan Daniels/Alamy Stock Photo By Jake BuehlerMar. 29, 2019 , 12:50 PM Whether it’s cargo ships, oil rigs, or sonar, humans make a lot of…
Some of the last Denisovans may have intermingled with modern humans in mountainous New Guinea or on nearby islands, DOZIER MARC/hemis.fr/Getty Images By Ann GibbonsMar.…
[embedded content] By Elizabeth PennisiMar. 29, 2019 , 9:00 AM The desert kangaroo rat is a black belt among rodents. In addition to living in…
New Delhi: India’s fastest growing OTT platform ZEE5 has announced association with Reliance Jio Infocomm Ltd under which bespoke version of the ZEE5 app will…
A lung cancer (arrow) grew slowly before the patient received an immunotherapy drug, as seen in images made 7 weeks apart (left and center). Three…
Mark Smith/Flickr Southern California’s famous Santa Anita racetrack is struggling to explain a series of recent horse injuries and deaths. Host Meagan Cantwell is joined…
Jonathan E. Kolby/Honduras Amphibian Rescue & Conservation Center By Erik StokstadMar. 28, 2019 , 2:00 PM The infectious disease that has devastated the most biodiversity…
The Beresheet lander, 1.5 meters tall, will touch down in Mare Serenitatis. SPACEIL AND IAI By Daniel CleryMar. 28, 2019 , 1:30 PM For Israel,…
On the lookout for parasites and likely other pathogens, tuft cells (blue) are stationed among the microvilli-capped cells of the intestinal lining and many other…
Ross Fargher, rancher and landowner of Nilpena cattle station, in his wool shed. JASON IRVING By Elizabeth FinkelMar. 28, 2019 , 11:45 AM NILPENA CATTLE STATION…
San Francisco: Facebook-owned photo-messaging app Instagram is testing a seek-bar for shorter videos to let users drag the cursor to watch specific parts of the…
Debomoy Lahiri is among the Indiana University plaintiffs challenging a state law that restricts his Alzheimer’s disease research using fetal tissue. TIM YATES/INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE…
New Delhi: India’s broadband subscribers increased 4.15 percent to 540.04 million in January 2019, a report by telecom regulator TRAI said. “As per the reports…
Facebook Inc on Wednesday banned praise, support and representation of white nationalism and white separatism on its social media platforms, a shift in policy after…
San Francisco: In a bid to reduce energy demand and provide emergency backup power to trains in Japan, Tesla has claimed to develop its largest…
The Environmental Protection Agency headquarters in Washington, D.C. Former Administrator Scott Pruitt said a policy was intended to ensure the objectivity of advisory panel members.…
Noni Byrnes leads the National Institutes of Health’s Center for Scientific Review in Bethesda, Maryland. NIH Image Gallery/Flickr By Jocelyn KaiserMar. 27, 2019 , 4:50…
Riko Muranaka did not provide evidence that research data were fabricated, a court in Tokyo said. Riko Muranaka By Dennis NormileMar. 27, 2019 , 4:00…
Riders arrive at the Santa Anita track in Southern California on 8 March. IRFAN KHAN/LOS ANGELES TIMES/GETTY IMAGES By Christa Lasté-LasserreMar. 27, 2019 , 3:20…
The story of Giraffatitan‘s discovery in eastern Africa long ignored the crimes of German colonialism and the scientific contributions of local residents. ANTJE DITTMANN/NATURAL HISTORY…
Protesters look for jailed friends during a protest against detention conditions in St. Louis, Missouri. UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI IN ST. LOUIS/ST. LOUIS PUBLIC RADIO/CAROLINA HIDALGO…
[embedded content] By Erik StokstadMar. 27, 2019 , 8:00 AM When water fleas detect certain predators lurking nearby, they grow tiny, sharp ridges below their…
New Delhi: Global wearables maker Fitbit on Wednesday announced the availability of its wearable line-up including the Fitbit Versa Lite Edition, Fitbit Inspire HR, and…
New Delhi: As experts demand Facebook-owned WhatsApp to disclose information about where a message in question has originated from, the company has reiterated that such…
New Delhi: India’s wireline subscribers declined 0.34 percent to 21.79 million in January 2019, telecom regulator TRAI said in its report. BSNL and MTNL, the…
New Delhi: Samsung India Tuesday said it has partnered with Indus Bazaar, which will enable it to offer Apps on Galaxy store in 12 Indian…
New Delhi: TV viewers may be able to switch their DTH or cable service providers without changing the set top box (STB) by the end…
Robert Coy/Alamy Stock Photo By Benjamin Storrow, E&E NewsMar. 26, 2019 , 2:55 PM Originally published by E&E News Global carbon levels reached a record…
Corrado Cimarelli By Sid PerkinsMar. 26, 2019 , 10:55 AM Much of the lightning that flickers around and within the ash plumes of erupting volcanoes…
New Delhi: A total of 5.84 million requests were received for Mobile number portability (MNP) during the month of January 2019, a TRAI report said.…
San Francisco: Google is letting Android users create public events on Maps through the app`s existing Contribute section, allowing them to set name, location, date…
Cupertino: Apple Inc attempted to reintroduce itself on Monday as an entertainment and financial services company that also makes iPhones as it launched a streaming…
By Richard StoneMar. 25, 2019 , 3:50 PM When the United States and allies struck a landmark nuclear accord with Iran in 2015, a key…
uschools/istockphoto By Science News StaffMar. 25, 2019 , 1:50 PM Duke University will pay $112.5 million to the U.S. government to settle a lawsuit brought…
Young neurons glow red in this brain tissue from a 68-year-old. LlorensLab By Emily UnderwoodMar. 25, 2019 , 12:00 PM One of the thorniest debates…
New Delhi: Amazon.in on Monday announced the latest edition of Fab Phones Fest with exciting offers on budget and premium smartphones Under the offer, which…
Airtel has maximum proportion of active wireless subscribers vs its total wireless subscribers: TRAI
Airtel has maximum proportion of active wireless subscribers vs its total wireless subscribers: TRAI
New Delhi: Airtel has maximum proportion of active wireless subscribers versus its total wireless subscribers, telecom regulator TRAI said in its report. “Bharti Airtel has…
Chennai: India on April 1 will launch an electronic intelligence satellite Emisat for the Defence Research Development Organisation (DRDO) along with 28 third-party satellites and…
Habitat destruction has endangered the golden-cheeked warbler. Nature Photographers Ltd/Alamy Stock Photo By David AdamMar. 22, 2019 , 4:15 PM The golden-cheeked warbler sits just…
iStock.com/Highwaystarz- By Jennifer Couzin-FrankelMar. 22, 2019 , 2:50 PM Earlier this week, the Lieber Institute for Brain Development, a nonprofit housed at Johns Hopkins University…
(left to right): CHRONICLE/ALAMY STOCK PHOTO; MIKAELA NORDBORG/AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE; ANDREA KANE/INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY By Alex FoxMar. 22, 2019 , 12:40 PM…
The cuckoo catfish is a deadbeat parent, leaving care of its young to others. Roberto Nistri/Alamy Stock Photo By Elizabeth PennisiMar. 22, 2019 , 9:00…
New Delhi: Reliance Jio on Friday announced that it is offering Rs 2,200 instant cashback and 100 GB of additional data on the newly announced…
San Francisco: Microsoft-owned professional networking platform LinkedIn has added new options to facilitate planning in-person meet-ups without having to switch from its messaging services. “We…
Bengaluru: Amazon.in on Friday announced Apple Fest with special deals and EMI offers starting as low as Rs 4,666 per month on Apple phones. Under…
San Francisco: Microsoft is rolling out its Windows Defender anti-virus software to Apple`s operating system MacOS, with full virus and threat protection along with the…
New Delhi: India’s total wireless subscribers grew by 0.51 percent to 1,181.97 million (1.18 bn) in January 2019, as per a report by telecom regularor…
New Delhi: Search engine giant Google has said that it is launching a beta program for a new Drive file feature. It will allows users…
San Francisco: Google is shutting down on April 2 its email app “Inbox” that gave users options like advanced filtering, message snoozing and more visual…
Another Alzheimer’s drug candidate targeting toxic β-amyloid (brown) has failed. NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING/NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH By Kelly ServickMar. 21, 2019 , 6:00 PM…
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency Pirate’s gold may not be that far off, as there are valuable metals embedded in potato-size nodules thousands of meters down…
Early freezes or severe cold can damage apple trees, a possible cause of later, rapid deaths. The decline is more common among densely planted trellised…
Facebook Inc said on Thursday it has resolved a glitch that exposed passwords of millions of users stored in readable format within its internal systems…
By Warren CornwallMar. 21, 2019 , 2:00 PM THE NATIONAL SEA SIMULATOR IN TOWNSVILLE, AUSTRALIA—The rush starts at sunset, just before the first tiny pearls…
Drinking even moderate amounts of sweetened beverages could spur the growth of colon cancer, according to a study in mice. Mario Tama/Getty Images By Jocelyn…
A new research program on free will team up neuroscientists and philosophers. iStock.com/rudall30 By Bahar GholipourMar. 21, 2019 , 11:05 AM Philosophers have spent millennia…
[embedded content] By Alex FoxMar. 21, 2019 , 10:00 AM Humans are master impersonators—even infants can mimic the facial expressions of their friends and parents.…
New Delhi: Giving out all the colourful festive vibes, Google, on Thursday, dedicated its doodle to the festival of Holi celebrated across India. Splashing colours,…
Sistine Chapel (Cappella Sistina), by Michelangelo Buonarroti, 16th Century, fresco (post restoration), Buonarroti, Michelangelo (1475-1564)/Musei e Gallerie Pontificie, Musei Vaticani, Vatican City/Mondadori Portfolio/Bridgeman Images By…
The lava from the 2018 Kilauea eruption has cooled but still offers little to sustain plants or animals. USGS/POLARIS/NEWSCOM By Michael PriceMar. 20, 2019 ,…
Robert Arlinghaus with a sea trout he caught off the Danish coast Christian Skov By Erik StokstadMar. 20, 2019 , 12:10 PM For environmental conflict…
SAN FRANCISCO: Introducing its second generation of wireless headphones, Apple on Wednesday launched new AirPods designed to deliver more talk time. The new AirPods come…
A noisy map of myelin in the brain (left) becomes more stable and sensitive (right) thanks to a new mathematical technique. M. BOUHRARA ET AL.,…
New Delhi: Telecom regulator TRAI on Wednesday said that the number of telephone subscribers in India showed a monthly growth rate of 0.49 %. It…
Barbara Marrs By John PickrellMar. 20, 2019 , 6:00 AM For the first time, researchers have found an unlaid egg inside a fossil bird. The…
New Delhi: Xiaomi’s Poco F1 6 GB+ 128 GB storage variant has got a temporary price cut of Rs 2,000 in India. After the price…
The Google Doodle on Wednesday welcomed the spring equinox (also known as vernal equinox), a celestial event marking the beginning of spring in several cultures…
Two merged images from 19 January show Bennu ejecting particles from its surface. NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona/Lockheed Martin By Paul VoosenMar. 19, 2019 , 5:35 PM…
A researcher adjusts a microplate containing embryos undergoing gene editing with CRISPR. An expert panel has recommended that all such experiments be submitted to a…
The proposed budget for the National Science Foundation would continue funding a $410-million renovation of its McMurdo research station in Antarctica, where construction costs have…
In Japan, genetically modified products have to be labeled; an advisory panel did not say whether that should apply to gene-edited food as well. Shiho Fukada/Bloomberg/Getty…
Karen Uhlenbeck Andrea Kane By Allyn JacksonMar. 19, 2019 , 7:10 AM The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters today announced that Karen Uhlenbeck has…
New Delhi: Chinese handset maker Xiaomi on Tuesday launched its cheapest smartphone ever –the Redmi Go. Priced at Rs 4,499, the phone will go on…
San Francisco: Facebook-owned photo-messaging app Instagram is testing a selector wheel format to display filter options for `Stories` on its platform. The semi-circular wheel of…
New Delhi: Hong Kong-based TRANSSION Holdings’ subsidiary TECNO Mobile on Monday launched its first Android 9 Pie enabled “CAMON iSKY3” smartphone in India for Rs…
San Francisco: Netflix CEO Reed Hastings has confirmed that the content-streaming platform will not be selling subscriptions to Apple’s upcoming video services. The iPhone-maker is…
San Francisco: In a surprise move ahead of its expected launch of a video streaming service next week, Apple on Monday introduced an all-new 10.5-inch…
An artist’s conception of the Mars 2020 rover. Several of its instruments are costing more than expected. NASA/JPL-Caltech By Paul VoosenMar. 18, 2019 , 10:28…
NASA’s InSight lander places a protective, dome-shaped shield above its seismometer. JPL-Caltech/NASA By Paul VoosenMar. 18, 2019 , 6:10 PM THE WOODLANDS, TEXAS—After months of…
[embedded content] By Paul VoosenMar. 18, 2019 , 4:00 PM THE WOODLANDS, TEXAS—As data streamed down last month from NASA’s New Year’s flyby of MU69,…
Oh Baby Productions/Alamy Stock Photo By Michael PriceMar. 18, 2019 , 3:00 PM Female twins who shared a womb with a man tend to get…
By Munyaradzi MakoniMar. 18, 2019 , 3:00 PM An appeals court in Kenya has dismissed charges of institutional racism at a U.K.-Kenyan research partnership. The…
National Science Foundation Director France Córdova, who represented the United States at a 2017 meeting in Italy of leading scientific nations, is trying to balance…
Biophysicist Joe Kirschvink and his team used brain recordings to search for a magnetic sixth sense in people. Spencer Lowell By Kelly ServickMar. 18, 2019…
New Delhi: The Election Commission of India (EC) has launched various apps for citizens, candidate and political parties for effective conduct of elections. One such…
New Delhi: Huawei`s sub-brand Honor on Monday launched a 3GB RAM+32GB internal storage variant of its recently launched “10 Lite” smartphone for Rs 11,999 in…
J. W. Young/TMO/JPL/NASA By Daniel CleryMar. 15, 2019 , 5:05 PM Iridium flares are a familiar sight for sky watchers: The brilliant flashes take place…
HIV integrates its genome (yellow) into human chromosomes, and cells that indirectly copy that genome as they replicate may complicate cure efforts. David S. Goodsell/HIVE…
(left to right): Gary Waters/Getty Images; JULIO MANUEL VIDA ENCINAS; MOHD RASFAN/AFP/GETTY IMAGES By Alex FoxMar. 15, 2019 , 2:30 PM Does a ‘dark triad’…
A historical image of police discovering a Jack the Ripper murder victim Chronicle/Alamy Stock Photo By David AdamMar. 15, 2019 , 2:00 PM Forensic scientists…
New Delhi: The Election Commission of India has integrated use of smart technology by making the optimum use of smartphones and tablets, etc. With the…
New Delhi: Reliance Jio has topped the chart of fastest 4G telecom operators with an average 4G download speed of 20.9 megabit per second (mbps)…
These two skeletons at La Braña in northwest Spain belonged to brothers with dark hair and blue eyes who lived 8000 years ago and were…