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A custommade drug appears to be helping Mila, a 7-year-old born with Batten disease. Julie Afflerbaugh By Jocelyn KaiserOct. 19, 2018 , 9:00 PM For…
(left to right): STSCL/ESA/NASA; JABIN BOTSFORD/THE WASHINGTON POST/GETTY IMAGES; ANDRE COELHO/BLOOMBERG/GETTY IMAGES By Frankie SchembriOct. 19, 2018 , 4:15 PM Cometlike objects could be spreading…
The new technique managed to generate structures from a mixture that contained all four of these organic compounds. M.Martynowycz, et. al. ChemRxiv (2018); Adapted by…
Rising sea levels threaten the diverse ecology of the Everglades. Scott Leslie/Minden Pictures By Richard BlausteinOct. 19, 2018 , 12:15 PM Efforts to restore the…
Mel Hall campaigns in the Indiana district he hopes to represent. Mel for Congress By Jeffrey MervisOct. 19, 2018 , 11:30 AM ScienceInsider’s coverage of the…
New Delhi: Twitter will now publicly shame users for bad tweet, stating that the tweet is unavailable because it violated the Twitter rules. The micro-blogging…
San Francisco: Apple is likely to launch new iPads and Mac computer lineup on October 30 at an event in Brooklyn, the media reported. Apple…
New Delhi: Samsung India has announced the launch of its flagship tablet, Galaxy Tab S4, a new 2-in-1 Android tablet that comes equipped with Samsung…
New Delhi/Bengaluru: Amazon.in has announced the return of its festive celebration ‘Great Indian Festival’. The Wave 2 of the Great Indian Festival will start at…
New Delhi: Reliance Jio is once again ready to disrupt the telecom sector with its exciting festive offer. Jio has announced the Jio Diwali 100…
Jezero crater and its fossil river delta is a favored landing site for NASA’s Mars 2020 rover. NASA/JPL/JHUAPL/MSSS/BROWN UNIVERSITY By Paul VoosenOct. 18, 2018 , 5:50 PM…
Navid Folpour/Flickr As you age, your cells divide over and over again, leading to minute changes in their genomes. New research reveals that in the…
Jacob Kingsley, 12, visits a bakery that was off-limits before he began oral immunotherapy for a peanut allergy. MADDIE MCGARVEY By Jennifer Couzin-FrankelOct. 18, 2018…
New research spells out the simple chemical steps that may have launched the RNA World. Mark Garlick/Science Source By Robert F. ServiceOct. 18, 2018 , 1:55…
John Christy (left) is among the candidates for the Environmental Protection Agency’s Science Advisory Board. MIKE THEILER/UPI/NEWSCOM By Scott Waldman, E&E NewsOct. 18, 2018 ,…
John Christy (left) is among the candidates for the Environmental Protection Agency’s Science Advisory Board. MIKE THEILER/UPI/NEWSCOM By Scott Waldman, E&E NewsOct. 18, 2018 ,…
This blue whale’s toothless ancestors evolved the baleen that helps it feed on zooplankton. Doc White/Minden Pictures By April ReeseOct. 18, 2018 , 12:15 PM…
Lauren Underwood Underwood for Congress By Jeffrey MervisOct. 18, 2018 , 11:50 AM ScienceInsider’s coverage of the 2018 U.S. elections has featured profiles of several…
The Jura-Museum, Eischstatt, Germany By Gretchen VogelOct. 18, 2018 , 11:00 AM This 150-million-year-old fish (seen as an artist’s illustration) wasn’t named after the piranha…
Sweat bees are helping researchers understand the genetic basis of social behavior. Brian Valentine By Elizabeth PennisiOct. 18, 2018 , 5:00 AM One of biology’s…
Health workers caring for Ebola patients in the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s North Kivu province burn medical waste. JOHN WESSELS/AFP/Getty Images By Jon CohenOct.…
Sunlight filtering through fall foliage at the Pando aspen grove in central Utah. National Geographic Image Collection/Alamy Stock Photo By David ShultzOct. 17, 2018 ,…
Stephan Seidel By Adrian ChoOct. 17, 2018 , 1:50 PM For decades, experimenters have used laser light and electromagnetic fields to chill puffs of gas…
This young whooping crane was raised by white-suited humans. JONATHAN L. FIELY/USGS PATUXENT WILDLIFE RESEARCH CENTER By Elizabeth PennisiOct. 17, 2018 , 1:35 PM Today,…
Shekhar Mande Pallava Bagla By Pallava BaglaOct. 17, 2018 , 1:25 PM Shekhar Mande, a structural biologist, took over yesterday as director-general of India’s Council…
Until several of its pointing gyroscopes failed, Kepler stared at a fixed field of the sky containing 150,000 stars. National Optical Astronomy Observatory By Daniel…
Phil Janowicz (back right) joins in on a selfie with former Vice President Joe Biden during Biden’s recent campaign stop in southern California. Greg Bartlett By…
Ceres’s Occator crater contains an ice-spewing cryovolcano. NASA/JPL-CALTECH/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA By Paul VoosenOct. 17, 2018 , 12:15 PM A fter an 11-year journey to Vesta and Ceres,…
Latest update: YouTube is back up Yes, YouTube was down. We’re not responsible. Neither is the police. Google-owned video streaming platform’s worldwide outage sparked a…
Youtube, the Google-owned video service, suffered a worldwide outage on Wednesday. Thousands took to social media to report about the error messages received or video…
C. Clifford et al., Royal Society Open Science 10.1098 (2018) By Frankie SchembriOct. 16, 2018 , 7:01 PM Humans are awful at estimating a person’s…
Rick Cavisin By Frankie SchembriOct. 16, 2018 , 7:01 PM Think of it as a biological antenna. Researchers have discovered a species of butterfly that…
Jair Bolsonaro leads in the polls for Brazil’s presidential election. Andre Coelho/Bloomberg/Getty Images By Herton EscobarOct. 16, 2018 , 5:10 PM Beset by economic woes…
Nine-year-old Jayden Broadway from Denver suffered from breathing problems caused by EV-D68 in 2014. The virus may also cause muscle paralysis. Cyrus McCrimmon/GETTY IMAGES By…
A boy searches for coins and gold in the polluted waters of the Ganges River in the city of Allahabad, India. Sanjay Kanojia/AFP/Getty Images By…
iStock.com/Givaga By Sid PerkinsOct. 16, 2018 , 11:00 AM Homes, businesses, and coastal infrastructure aren’t the only things endangered by sea-level rise: A new study…
New Delhi: Expanding its premium portfolio, HP Inc. on Tuesday launched the HP ENVY x360 convertible powered by AMD Ryzen processor for the millennials in…
New Delhi: Huawei sub-brand Honor launched the Honor 8X in India on Tuesday. The Amazon-exclusive phone will go on sale from October 24. The device…
New Delhi: Samsung India is geared up to launch its flagship Galaxy Tab S4 this week for nearly Rs 60,000 that comes with Samsung “DeX”…
San Francisco: Apple is likely to sell its new and cheaper iPhone XR faster than the luxury iPhone XS and XS Max, an Apple analyst…
New Delhi: Huawei sub-brand Honor is all set to launch the Honor 8X in India on Tuesday. The phone will be launcheed at an event…
An artist’s representation of ‘Oumuamua STScl/ESA/NASA By George MusserOct. 15, 2018 , 4:20 PM When the football-field-size, cigar-shaped object ‘Oumuamua entered our solar system last…
Hurricane Michael, whose rapid intensification proved difficult to forecast, made landfall on 10 October near Mexico Beach, Florida. Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post/Getty Images By Frankie SchembriOct. 15,…
By Jeffrey MervisOct. 15, 2018 , 4:05 PM A $350 million gift from investment banker Stephen Schwarzman will allow the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)…
By Erik StokstadOct. 15, 2018 , 3:00 PM Insects and other arthropods have declined by up to 99% over 4 decades in a Puerto Rican…
[embedded content] By Ann GibbonsOct. 15, 2018 , 5:00 AM When it comes to gorillas, the males who help females out with their infants get…
Washington D.C: Is it exhausting for you to come up with a new password every time you make a new account somewhere? Well, it turns…
New Delhi: India’s biggest lender State Bank of India has announced shopping festival through its comprehensive digital service platform YONO (acronym for ‘You Only Need…
San Francisco: Ahead of its Pixel 3 launch on Thursday, Google has confirmed that the Pixel camera app is coming with an external microphone support.…
New Delhi: Facebook may soon bring “Unsend” feature for Messenger that would let users to roll back sent messages. The new Unsend button will let…
New Delhi: Instant messaging app WhatsApp is testing a new feature called that will set the time or duration for the “Delete for Everyone” feature.…
WASHINGTON: Alphabet Inc`s Google unit has told U.S. lawmakers it was considering “a variety of options” to offer additional services in China, but declined to…
(left to right): JUAN CRISTÓBAL COBO; MEHAU KULYK/SCIENCE SOURCE; ZOONAR GMBH/ALAMY STOCK PHOTO By Frankie SchembriOct. 12, 2018 , 3:10 PM Why is a remote…
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has disbanded panels that were supposed to review the science underpinning efforts to reduce air pollution, such as this blanket…
Hoesung Lee (center), chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, discussed a new report on limiting global warming during a press conference in Incheon, South…
San Francisco: To cut down on the confusion regarding character counts on its platform, microblogging site Twitter has announced that all emojis on the platform…
Internet users across the globe may experience widespread network failures as the key domain servers are slated to undergo routine maintenance. Russia Today reported that…
New Delhi: Bharti Airtel on Friday launched #AirtelThanks, a digital program to delight its customers with exclusive benefits. Under #AirteIThanks, all Airtel customers who commit…
New Delhi: Chinese smartphone maker Huawei on Thursday announced to bring its latest EMUI 9.0 user interface for Android to India that comes with localised…
San Francisco: Facebook is rolling out 3D photos in News Feed and Virtual Reality (VR) to enable users to view and create 3D photos with…
New Delhi/Mumbai: India said on Thursday it will raise import tariffs on several electronic items and communication devices, in another move to rein in imports…
Rice is one of the world’s most important crops. Svetlana Lukienko/shutterstock By Erik StokstadOct. 11, 2018 , 7:00 PM When plant breeders want to improve…
Adam Kerfoot-Roberts/Flickr A small isolated town in Colombia is home to a large cluster of people with fragile X syndrome—a genetic disorder that leads to…
By Erik StokstadOct. 11, 2018 , 2:00 PM Mikael Fremont was up to his shoulders in rapeseed, looking pleased. The bright yellow flowers had faded,…
Joseph James DeAngelo, the suspected Golden State Killer. Randy Pench/TNS/Newscom By Jocelyn KaiserOct. 11, 2018 , 2:00 PM If you’re white, live in the United…
H. Wang et al., Cell 10.1016 (2018) By Elizabeth PennisiOct. 11, 2018 , 11:00 AM Though the 3 meters of DNA inside the nuclei of…
K. MCDOLE ET AL., CELL 10.1016 (2018) By Gretchen VogelOct. 11, 2018 , 11:00 AM These color-coded mouse embryos represent a breakthrough for understanding early…
San Francisco/Frankfurt: Apple Inc is buying the power-management technology at the heart of its iPhones in a $600 million deal with Dialog Semiconductor that also…
Kuala Lumpur: Taking on camera-centric Chinese smartphone players head on, Samsung on Thursday introduced Galaxy A9 — its first smartphone with quadruple primary (rear) camera…
New Delhi: Finnish company HMD Global that makes Nokia smartphones launched the 3.1 Plus and 8110 4G phone in India on Thursday. Under the hood,…
New Delhi: Google’s recently launched flagship smartphones – Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL is available for pre-order in India. The smartphones will go on…
Jezero crater holds a fossil river delta, which may have concentrated and preserved signs of life. NASA/JPL/JHUAPL/MSSS/BROWN UNIVERSITY By Paul VoosenOct. 10, 2018 , 2:30…
The brain of a multiple sclerosis patient Mehau Kulyk/Science Source By Mitch LeslieOct. 10, 2018 , 2:15 PM Our immune cells normally pounce on intruding…
Felix Gross By Sid PerkinsOct. 10, 2018 , 2:00 PM For decades, scientists have known that the southeastern slopes of Mount Etna, an active volcano…
This woman’s breast cancer treatment caused an extreme case of arm lymphedema. VOISIN/SCIENCE SOURCE By Mitch LeslieOct. 10, 2018 , 1:25 PM Every night for…
By Dennis NormileOct. 10, 2018 , 12:45 PM China’s total spending on R&D rose a robust 12.3% last year to a record 1.76 trillion yuan…
Zoonar GmbH/Alamy Stock Photo By Elizabeth PennisiOct. 10, 2018 , 12:20 PM In the late 1980s, researchers discovered the biggest organism on record, a “humongous…
London: A bug in Facebook`s WhatsApp messaging service allowed hackers to take over users` applications when they answered an incoming video call, technology websites ZDnet…
Kolkata: Vodafone Idea Ltd on Wednesday announced that it has now made 4G services available to Idea customers in Kolkata metro. “During the auspicious Pujo…
New Delhi: Amazon India has started accepting pre-bookings for the much anticipated OnePlus 6T smartphone. Customers can pre-book the new OnePlus 6T with an Amazon…
By Hannah Furfaro, SpectrumOct. 10, 2018 , 7:00 AM RICAURTE, COLOMBIA—It’s late afternoon in this tiny town tucked into the Colombian Andes, when Mercedes Triviño,…
New Delhi: Google has launched its much awaited flagship smartphones – Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL.Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL will be available…
[embedded content] By Frankie SchembriOct. 9, 2018 , 7:01 PM Think of all the faces you know. As you flick through your mental Rolodex, your…
Gran Sasso National Laboratory sits within a mountain aquifer that feeds water to a local aqueduct. ALASTAIR PHILIP WIPER/Science Source By Edwin CartlidgeOct. 9, 2018 ,…
Arne Ristesund By Allyn JacksonOct. 9, 2018 , 1:10 PM When mathematician Hans Munthe-Kaas of the University of Bergen in Norway was asked to help…
Xiaoqi Xie says she was fired from the Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey because she asked for first authorship on a paper submitted to Nature.…
New Delhi: Google is all set to launch its flagship Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL at an event in New York on Tuesday. The…
Washington: Tech giant Google has said that its social network Google+ will be shut down after it was discovered that a bug exposed private data…
New Delhi: Google is all set to launch its flagship Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL at an event in New York on Tuesday. The…
New Delhi: Chinese smartphone maker OnePlus has announced that it will launch its most anticipated flagship – the OnePlus 6T – in India on October…
New Delhi: Amazon.in has announced its Great Indian Festival offering thousands of products ranging from smartphones, home and kitchen appliances, apparels, electronic items and many…
San Francisco: Taking on Amazon and Google in the smart home space, Facebook has unveiled a pair of Artificial Intelligence (AI)-powered smart video chat devices,…
The 2018 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel Credit: Nobel Foundation By Adrian ChoOct. 8, 2018 , 9:40 PM Often,…
ESO By Paul VoosenOct. 8, 2018 , 11:00 AM Scientists have long wanted to explore Jupiter’s frozen moon, Europa, which is home to a vast…
Coal-fired thermal power plants in Singrauli. international accountability project By Dennis NormileOct. 8, 2018 , 7:14 AM The United Nations’ climate panel has moved the…
San Francisco: A bug discovered in Apple Watch Series 4 is reportedly crashing the device and causing it to get stuck on re-boot loops, the…
New Delhi: Aiming to achieve a breakthrough in battery life, Huawei Consumer Business Group on Monday unveiled the industry`s first patented lithium-silicon battery that promises…
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday issued notice to both Centre and BSNL on petition against government’s decision to provide 2G technology in Arunachal…
By Adrian ChoOct. 8, 2018 , 5:40 AM The 2018 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel Credit: Nobel Foundation The…
New Delhi: With the festive season kicking in, home-grown company Optiemus Infracom Ltd, which manufactures and distributes BlackBerry-branded handsets, on Monday launched the BlackBerry KEY2…
Washington: Microsoft has put on hold the roll out of the latest update to its Windows 10 OS after some reported about missing files on…
New Delhi: After the succesful Honor 7X, Huawei sub-brand Honor is set to launch Honor 8X in India on October 16. It will be priced…
San Francisco: Despite claims by a company executive that Microsoft tech support has the tools to help users recover the files deleted by the “Windows…
New Delhi: Social networking platform Facebook on Saturday said it will encourage engagement between people and political leaders on its platform for ‘free and fair…
This male spotted bluethroat bursts into song by activating an organ deep in its throat. Hans Glader/Minden Pictures By Elizabeth PennisiOct. 5, 2018 , 4:30…
(left to right): REIDAR HAHN/FERMILAB; R. JAY GABANY/COSMOTOGRAPHY; Kay Nietfeld/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Images By Frankie SchembriOct. 5, 2018 , 2:00 PM Leon Lederman, father of ‘the God…
San Francisco: Facebook-owned photo-messaging app Instagram on Friday introduced a new feature “Nametag” to make the process of finding and adding people and accounts easier.…
London: Finnish company HMD Global that makes Nokia smartphones has launched the Nokia 7.1, a first with “PureDisplay” screen technology at an event in London.…
New Delhi: Lenovo-owned Motorola One Power will be up for grabs in India on Friday. The phone has been priced at Rs 15,999. The phone…
New Delhi: Amazon India has announced massive discount for the OnePlus 6 ahead of the upcoming festive season sale. During Amazon’s Great Indian Festival sale,…
New York: Astronomers using Hubble and Kepler space telescopes have found compelling evidence for the existence of the first known moon outside our solar system,…
Stuart Rankin/Flickr Hoping to spot subatomic particles called neutrinos smashing into Earth, the balloon-borne Antarctic Impulsive Transient Antenna (ANITA) detector has circled the South Pole…
University of Pennsylvania bioethicist Anna Wexler is among this year’s winners of the National Institutes of Health Early Independence Awards. Dan Burke Photography By Jocelyn KaiserOct.…
A recent Environmental Protection Agency proposal questions long-standing assumptions about the risks of low-level exposure to radiation and toxins. Science Photo Library/Alamy Stock Photo By…
[embedded content] By Paul VoosenOct. 4, 2018 , 2:00 PM For decades, researchers have puzzled over a seemingly simple mystery: the length of a day…
Researchers are studying whether aphids and other insects could be used to transmit viruses that help protect plants. Larry Mayer/Getty Images By Kai KupferschmidtOct. 4,…
“I’m not a Luddite who is scared of technology,” Elena Álvarez-Buylla says. GDA/EL UNIVERSAL/MéXICO/ASSOCIATED PRESS By Lizzie WadeOct. 4, 2018 , 11:30 AM MEXICO CITY—In…
This 7-day-old gastruloid mimics some of the genetic patterns of embryonic development. Mehmet Girgin Ugur/Laboratory of Matthias Lutolf/École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne By Kelly ServickOct. 4,…
By Eric HandOct. 4, 2018 , 9:30 AM At 4 a.m. on Zero Day, Ana Bonaca woke up in her Manhattan hotel in a state…
[embedded content] By Frankie SchembriOct. 4, 2018 , 8:00 AM What would you get if you crossed a pelican with an eel? Probably something close…
San Francisco: Google has revamped its “Assistant” virtual helper with a new interface on Android devices that comes with bigger visuals, new control options and…
Seoul: LG Electronics Inc. on Thursday unveiled its new flagship V40 ThinQ that offers five different cameras to provide a versatile and unique experience for…
San Francisco: Microblogging site Twitter has rolled out its latest update for iOS users with the “data saver” feature that would give users the option…
Leon Lederman in 2015. Reidar Hahn/Fermilab By Adrian ChoOct. 3, 2018 , 6:05 PM Leon Lederman, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist and passionate advocate for science…
U.S. officials argue that fossil fuels, such as natural gas produced at this drilling site, are key to reducing poverty. Aaron M. Sprecher/AP Photo By…
Steve Dillingham (left), with Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Chairman Ron Johnson (R–WI, right) before today’s hearing. J. Merivs/Science By Jeffrey MervisOct. 3, 2018 , 4:10…
The first exomoon may be a Neptune-size world that orbits a Jupiter-size planet. Dan Durda By Joshua SokolOct. 3, 2018 , 2:00 PM With help…
Mercury’s northern hemisphere is covered by lavas (tan) in this false-color image. NASA/JHU APPLIED PHYSICS LAB/CARNEGIE INST. WASHINGTON By Daniel Clery, Dennis NormileOct. 3, 2018…
An artist’s impression of the MASCOT rover, which carries a suite of scientific instruments, after today’s landing on Ryugu JAXA By Dennis NormileOct. 3, 2018 ,…
An artist impression of the MASCOT rover, which carries a suit of scientificc instruments, after today’s landing on Ryugu. JAXA By Dennis NormileOct. 3, 2018…
New Delhi: Global payments technology leader Visa on Wednesday announced that India ranked 28th among 73 countries in the 2018 Government e-Payments Adoption Ranking (GEAR).…
Kay Nietfeld/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Images By Gretchen VogelOct. 3, 2018 , 4:57 AM Three scientists who put evolution to good use in the lab have won the…
Facebook Inc`s photo-sharing social network Instagram was not working on Wednesday for users across several cities, including London, San Francisco and Singapore. Users took to…
San Francisco: All set to take the wraps off its new LG V40 ThinQ later this week, LG Electronics Inc on Tuesday said its new…
Seoul: Samsung Electronics Co. plans to start sales of a silver-coloured Galaxy Note 9 as early as this week, industry sources said on Tuesday, apparently…
A molecular structure shows a DNA polymerase enzyme (purple) constructing a strand of DNA (green). DNA Script By Robert F. ServiceOct. 2, 2018 , 4:30 PM…
A molecular structure shows a DNA polymerase enzyme (purple) constructing a strand of DNA (green). DNA Script By Robert F. ServiceOct. 2, 2018 , 4:30 PM…
Roberto Molar Candanosa and Scott Sheppard/Carnegie Institution for Science By Paul VoosenOct. 2, 2018 , 4:00 PM A goblin lurks at the edge of our…
Science minister Sam Gyimah hopes the United Kingdom can still have a say in EU funding programs such as Horizon Europe, which will begin in…
United Airlines stopped transporting nonhuman primates in 2013. imageBROKER/Alamy Stock Photo By David GrimmOct. 2, 2018 , 12:50 PM A last-ditch attempt by biomedical science…
Kay Nietfeld/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Images By Daniel CleryOct. 2, 2018 , 4:57 AM This year’s Nobel Prize for physics has been awarded to three researchers for devising…
The unusual strategy of injecting live bacteria into tumors may be helping some cancer patients, according to a small clinical trial. iStock.com/BrianAJackson By Jennifer Couzin-FrankelOct.…
Neuroscientists are beginning to pinpoint the regions of the brain involved in the perception of free will. iStock.com/Imaginima By Michael PriceOct. 1, 2018 , 3:00…
San Francisco: Google`s first Chrome operating system (OS) based tablet “Pixel Slate” may support dual-booting Windows 10 — allowing two operating systems to run on…
Kay Nietfeld/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Images By Gretchen VogelOct. 1, 2018 , 5:12 AM Discoveries about ways to harness the immune system to attack cancer have won the 2018…
New Delhi: The notch trend shot to fame after Apple debuted iPhone X last year and soon, it was adopted by Android smartphone makers across…
New Delhi: Chinese handset maker OnePlus has released its latest teaser of the upcoming 6T. The phone’s teaser matches with earlier reports of bezel-less design…
New Delhi: The Nokia 5.1 Plus, launched in India last week, will go on first flash sale on Monday. The online-exclusive smartphone will be available…
New Delhi: The Nokia 5.1 Plus, launched in India last week, will go on first flash sale on Monday. The online-exclusive smartphone will be available…
New Delhi [India]: Google Doodle on Monday paid tribute to Dr Govinda Venkataswamy, a visionary Indian ophthalmologist, on his 100th birth anniversary. Born on October…
(Left to right): THOMAS KUHLENBECK/SCIENCE SOURCE; VIVIAN ABAGIU/THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS IN AUSTIN; JIM WILSON/THE NEW YORK TIMES/REDUX By Frankie SchembriSep. 28, 2018 , 4:30…
The National Science Foundation’s new Understanding the Rules of Life track supports work on baboon gut microbiomes. Elizabeth Archie, University of Notre Dame/NSF By Frankie…
Once mounted on the space station, CLARREO Pathfinder will reduce uncertain measures of climate-related phenomena such as clouds. NASA By Paul VoosenSep. 28, 2018 ,…
Conference attendees gather at a poster session at the German Cancer Research Center in Heidelberg, Germany. Tobias Schwerdt/DKTK By Gretchen VogelSep. 28, 2018 , 11:25…
Artist’s illustration of the protoplanetary disk surrounding a young star JPL-Caltech/NASA By Adam MannSep. 28, 2018 , 8:00 AM Astronomers have a problem on their…
New Delhi: All 6000 stations in the railway network will have free WiFi connections in the next 120 days if collaborations with private players like…
New Delhi: Chinese handset maker Xiaomi has unveiled its much anticipated Redmi Note 6 Pro in Thailand. The 4GB RAM/ 64GB storage variant of Redmi…
San Francisco: Facebook has admitted that the phone numbers that its users provide for security purposes are being used to target them with ads, the…
New Delhi: Apple’s recently launched iPhone XS and iPhone XS Max will go on sale in India on Friday. The iPhone XS starts at Rs …
An outdoor chemistry class held on 28 August in Buenos Aires as part of a rally against the government’s alleged “destruction of Argentianian science.” Exactas…
The Antarctic Impulsive Transient Antenna balloon experiment has flown four times over Antarctica and has seen two hard-to-explain particle events. NASA By Adrian ChoSep. 27, 2018…
Public domain Science has often treated Indigenous people as resources for research—especially when it comes to genomics. Now, Indigenous people are exploring how this type…
Because of their diets, some killer whales are being slowly wiped out because of exposure to polychlorinated biphenyls. Audun Rikardsen—www.audunrikardsen.com By Elizabeth PennisiSep. 27, 2018…
Surfaces coated with a paint that efficiently reflects and radiates energy (left) drop in temperature, as seen in an infrared image (right). JYOTIRMOY MANDAL By…
Members of the Havasupai Tribe, shown in 2010 looking at blood samples previously taken from them, had to fight for access to their samples, in an episode…
Background checks for all firearm transactions could reduce the risk of violence. AP Photo/Philip Kamrass By Frankie SchembriSep. 27, 2018 , 11:30 AM Some of the…
New Delhi: Chinese handset maker Xiaomi on Thursday launched a new range of smart LED Tvs, Mi Band 3 and Mi Air Purifier 2. The…
San Francisco: Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has introduced a new virtual reality (VR) headset “Oculus Quest” that will be available from 2019, starting at $399…
New Delhi: Online focused smartphone maker Realme on Thursday launched the Realme 2 Pro and Realme C1 smartphones in India. Both the phones will be…
New Delhi: A lot of hype has started to build around the upcoming OnePlus 6T with the rumour mills churning out newer updates almost every…
Apple Inc shaved some parts from the display in its largest new iPhone, helping keep costs under control in what has become the priciest component…
Lasers are used to trap arrays of atoms within glass chambers made by ColdQuanta, a neutral atom quantum computing startup. COLDQUANTA INC. By Sophia ChenSep.…
[embedded content] By Meagan CantwellSep. 26, 2018 , 2:00 PM Despite their brutish reputation, Neanderthals used their hands more like tailors than construction workers, new…
[embedded content] By Frankie SchembriSep. 26, 2018 , 2:00 PM If fiberglass tubes suddenly started to sprout out of the ground, you might think you…
New studies show infusions of powerful antibodies (blue and green) that latch onto HIV’s surface protein (red) helped control the infection for months. Donald Bliss and…
The Little Sandy Desert region of Australia’s Western Desert Ingo Oeland/Alamy Stock Photo By April ReeseSep. 26, 2018 , 11:30 AM Humans trekked into Australia’s…
New Delhi: Chinese handset maker Vivo launched the V9 Pro smartphone with FHD+ display in India on Wednesday. The smartphone has been priced at Rs…
ariadnaS/iStock.com By Michael PriceSep. 25, 2018 , 7:01 PM If home is where the heart is, work may be where it wanders. Married people who…
Neurons deep in a fetal brain viewed through an electron microscope. Fetal brain tissue is used to study Alzheimer’s disease, autism, schizophrenia, and other conditions. Steve Gschmeissner/Science…
Geoff A Howard/Alamy Stock Photo By Ann GibbonsSep. 25, 2018 , 10:50 AM JENA, GERMANY—On the island of Honshū in Japan, farmers long appreciated a…
PeopleImages/iStockphoto By Science News StaffSep. 25, 2018 , 8:00 AM The party is just getting started when the dreaded question comes: “So, what’s your Ph.D.…
Co-founders of Facebook Inc’s Instagram, Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger, have resigned and plan to leave the photo-sharing app company in coming weeks, the New…
Mathematician Michael Atiyah presents his claimed proof the Riemann hypothesis at the Heidelberg Laureate Forum on 24 September. © Heidelberg Laureate Forum Foundation By Frankie…
Scientists dosed bees with the herbicide glyphosate to see how it affected microbes in their digestive systems, using paint markings to track which bees got…
These mitochondria contain their own DNA, but they can also carry mutations that cause disease. CNRI/Science Source By Mitch LeslieSep. 24, 2018 , 11:00 AM…
New Delhi: Instant messaging app WhatsApp may soon bring inline images for the notification panel for device running on Android 9 Pie. First spotted by…
New Delhi: Finnish company HMD Global, that sells Nokia smartphones, on Monday announced the availability of Nokia 5.1 Plus for Rs 10,999 in India. The…
New Delhi: Lenovo-owned Motorola launched the Motorola One Power in India on Monday. The phone has been priced at Rs 15,999. The phone, now open…
New Delhi: Samsung has officially confirmed that the Galaxy A7, with a powerful rear triple camera system, is coming to Indian markets on Tuesday. Samsung…
New Delhi: Lenovo-owned Motorola is all set to launch the Motorola One Power in India on Monday. The Motorola One Power was launched at the…
The two surviving wolves on Isle Royale—pictured here in February—are to be joined this fall by wolves from Michigan and Minnesota. Rolf O. Peterson/Michigan Technological…
Microbes in floodwaters from Hurricane Florence have likely contaminated drinking water. David Goldman/AP Photo By Frankie SchembriSep. 21, 2018 , 5:00 PM Hurricane Florence dropped…
[embedded content] By Richa MalhotraSep. 21, 2018 , 2:40 PM In November 2017, ecologist Leandro Moraes of the National Institute of Amazonian Research in Manaus,…
(left to right): NICOLLE R. FULLER/SCIENCE SOURCE; CATE GILLON/GETTY IMAGES; PAUL STAROSTA/GETTY IMAGES By Frankie SchembriSep. 21, 2018 , 2:30 PM Your gut is directly…
Jio has announced that the latest variants of the iPhone– iPhone XS and iPhone XS Max — are now available on Jio and customers can…
By Martin EnserinkSep. 21, 2018 , 12:05 PM Given the billions of dollars the world invests in science each year, it’s surprising how few researchers…
USGS/NASA Landsat data By Sid PerkinsSep. 21, 2018 , 11:50 AM Despite being mostly smothered by a glacier averaging 200 meters thick, one of Iceland’s…
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