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An artist’s conception of the sauropod Camarasaurus. Dorling Kindersley/Science Source By John PickrellOct. 10, 2019 , 2:15 AM BRISBANE, AUSTRALIA —Typically taller than four elephants…
Mila Makovec (right) has had fewer seizures since she began to receive a drug tailored to the mutation that causes her brain disease. Julie Afflerbaugh…
A man blinded by trachoma pauses in Laikala, Tanzania. The disorder is caused by a bacterial infection that scars the eyelid. Joe McNally/Getty Images By…
Administrators at the National Institutes of Health’s Building One in Bethesda, Maryland, say they want more female and minority applicants for the prestigious “high risk,…
The NenuFAR array in France will look for radio signals from hot Jupiters, exoplanets that orbit their star closely. © LAURENT DENIS/STATION DE RADIOASTRONOMIE DE…
Stephen Thomas (center) is a researcher at the University of Maryland in College Park who helps train barbers to be health advocates for their customers.…
Kay Nietfeld/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Images By Science News StaffOct. 9, 2019 , 6:20 AM You probably have evidence of a Nobel Prize in your pocket. This year’s…
Kay Nietfeld/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Images By Science News StaffOct. 9, 2019 , 6:20 AM The 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to chemists who developed…
By Gretchen VogelOct. 8, 2019 , 10:15 PM In the bowels of Yale University’s Peabody Museum of Natural History, Jasmina Wiemann yanks open a drawer…
A male Kirtland’s warbler sings its song. G. Ronald Austing/Science Source By Michael Doyle, E&E NewsOct. 8, 2019 , 2:25 PM Originally published by E&E…
Eyal Bartov/Alamy Stock Photo By Elizabeth PennisiOct. 8, 2019 , 2:15 PM There’s no better way to eat a fresh tomato than by adding a…
Kay Nietfeld/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Images By Science News StaffOct. 8, 2019 , 6:08 AM The 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to three scientists for…
AI-equipped rovers could offer psychologists a new—and highly malleable—model of the brain. William Hahn/Florida Atlantic University By Kelly ServickOct. 7, 2019 , 4:15 PM WASHINGTON,…
Kay Nietfeld/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Images Oct. 7, 2019 , 6:00 AM The 2019 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to three scientists for their…
Bengaluru: Amazon India on Sunday announced the Celebration Special of the Great Indian Festival which brings deals and offers on a wide range of smartphones,…
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Media Lab has been roiled by controversy. ES Tech Archive/Alamy Stock Photo By Meredith WadmanOct. 4, 2019 , 5:15 PM The…
(Left to right) : DAVIDE BONAZZI/SALZMANART; Gallery of Space Time Travel/Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.5 Generic; NOBEASTSOFIERCE/SHUTTERSTOCK.COM By Eva FrederickOct. 4, 2019 , 4:10 PM…
DOE’s annual budget for fiscal 2020 could approach $40 billion — a nearly 25% increase from when Perry took the helm in fiscal 2017. That’s…
Malte Mueller/Getty Images By Jocelyn KaiserOct. 4, 2019 , 3:15 PM The Human Genome Project’s completion in 2003 brought hope that geneticists would soon uncover…
A section of papyrus is imaged in a mobile laboratory in Italy’s national library in Naples. K. Fleischer By Eva FrederickOct. 4, 2019 , 2:00…
hdagli/iStockPhoto By Eva FrederickOct. 4, 2019 , 11:20 AM Yellow is usually the color of happy, joyful emotions. But according to a new study, not…
Bengaluru: Aiming to bring the next 200 million consumers to the e-commerce fold, Flipkart on Friday said that “The Big Billion Days” sale witnessed almost…
Jim Brendon/Flickr Host Sarah Crespi talks with undergraduate student Micheal Munson from Baylor University in Waco, Texas, about a smartphone app that scans photos in…
Hideki Umehata By Adrian ChoOct. 3, 2019 , 2:20 PM According to the prevailing theory of cosmology, every galaxy lies embedded in a vast network…
By Erik StokstadOct. 3, 2019 , 1:10 PM On 23 June 2016, 34 million U.K. citizens took to the polls to vote on a simple,…
New results suggest sugars bind to certain RNAs, but just why remains unclear. nobeastsofierce/shutterstock.com By Robert F. ServiceOct. 2, 2019 , 5:55 PM Sugar isn’t…
At the European Research and Innovation Days, participants sat down to “codesign” Horizon Europe. European Commission By Tania RabesandratanaOct. 2, 2019 , 1:45 PM BRUSSLES—”We…
A female Anopheles gambiae mosquito—a species that carries the malaria parasite in Africa. The Natural History Museum, London/Science Source By Meredith WadmanOct. 2, 2019 ,…
Modifying a gene in this tiny fruit fly revealed how the monarch butterfly it’s crawling on thrives on a poisonous plant. Julianne Pelaez By Elizabeth…
San Francisco: The upcoming Google Pixel smartphones -Pixel 4 and 4 XL would feature `Live Caption` that transcribes audio into subtitles and puts them on…
Huawei Technologies Co Ltd`s newly launched Mate 30 devices have lost their access to manually install Google`s Android apps, Bloomberg reported on Tuesday. According to…
Seoul: Samsung Electronics Co Ltd has ended mobile telephone production in China, it said on Wednesday, hurt by intensifying competition from domestic rivals in the…
© Archeodunum SAS/Gourvennec Michaël By Ann GibbonsOct. 2, 2019 , 5:00 AM In the 14th century, the Black Death wiped out as much as 60%…
Bengaluru: Twitter Inc said late on Tuesday that the social media website and its dashboard management platform TweetDeck was hit with an outage, with thousands…
iStock.com/diego_cervo By Kelly ServickOct. 1, 2019 , 7:01 PM The brain has a way of repurposing unused real estate. When a sense like sight is…
Indonesian firefighters try to douse a peatland fire in Riau province on northern Sumatra on 31 July. WAHYUDI/AFP/Getty Images By Dennis NormileOct. 1, 2019 ,…
Gemini Observatory/NSF/AURA By Daniel CleryOct. 1, 2019 , 2:00 PM Just weeks after the discovery of the second-ever comet from outside of our solar system…
Oxitec has released genetically engineered mosquitoes to reduce wild populations of Aedes aegypti (above), a species that carries Zika and other viruses. CDC/James Gathany/Science Source…
Ivan Kuzmin/Science Source By Eva FrederickOct. 1, 2019 , 10:20 AM As the weather cools, one species of squirrel in the U.S. Midwest is gearing…
National Institutes of Health National Institutes of Health By Jocelyn KaiserSep. 30, 2019 , 5:20 PM Financial conflicts of interest that could bias researchers funded…
DNA sequencing advances have found evidence of many new microbes, but they have been difficult to fish from their complex microbiomes and grown in labs.…
Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk has unveiled the latest iteration of his space company`s newly assembled Starship, outlining a speedy development timeline for the centerpiece vehicle…
Turkish scientist Bülent Şık has studied contamination in the Ergene River Basin in Turkey’s Edirne province. KENAN KAYA/Alamy Stock Photo By Kristen McTighe Sep. 27,…
(left to right): LIGHTFIELD STUDIOS/SUTTERSTOCK.COM; RUALDO MENEGAT; WARREN CORNWALL By Eva FrederickSep. 27, 2019 , 3:10 PM Researchers can guess where you’re from by how…
Gallery of Space Time Travel/Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.5 Generic By Sid PerkinsSep. 27, 2019 , 1:10 PM For nearly 5 years, growing numbers of…
DAVIDE BONAZZI/SALZMAN ART By Jeffrey MervisSep. 27, 2019 , 11:10 AM The U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) thinks it may have figured out how…
[embedded content] By Edd GentSep. 27, 2019 , 8:00 AM When it comes to teaching basketball players how to execute a winning drive to the…
New Delhi: Entering the Indian TV market with a bang, Chinese tech company OnePlus on Thursday launched “India-first” 55-inch Android TV in two variants —…
New Delhi: Google, the search engine giant, turns 21 on September 27 (Friday). Hence, to mark Google’s birthday, doodle celebrates its birthday with a special…
Jennifer Gruhn On this week’s show, Senior News Correspondent Jeffrey Mervis talks with host Sarah Crespi about a stalled Facebook plan to release user data…
By Warren CornwallSep. 26, 2019 , 2:00 PM It’s hard to think small in Alaska. The largest of the United States is home to North…
Researchers have used ultrasound to detect gene activity in tumors like this one, which was imaged with an older flourescent technique. A. Farhadi et al.,…
Ellen Damschen By Erik StokstadSep. 26, 2019 , 2:00 PM Loss of habitat drives most extinctions. When farms or roads carve forests or fields into…
Guillem Anglada-Escude/IEEC/Science Wave/SpaceEngine.org By Sid PerkinsSep. 26, 2019 , 2:00 PM A solar system 31 light-years away is challenging astronomers’ theories about how some types…
A correction posted on the Biology Letters website says this collage provides evidence of the number of lionfish used in an experiment in an Australian…
Chris Austin says the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences in Bethesda, Maryland, has begun to streamline drug development. NATIONAL CENTER FOR ADVANCING TRANSLATIONAL SCIENCES/FLICKR/CC…
An ancestry database helped police identify Joseph DeAngelo, who faces charges as the Golden State Killer. FRED GREAVES/REUTERS/Newscom By Jocelyn KaiserSep. 25, 2019 , 1:55…
An ancestry database helped police identify Joseph DeAngelo, who faces charges as the Golden State Killer. FRED GREAVES/REUTERS/Newscom By Jocelyn KaiserSep. 25, 2019 , 1:55…
Katharina Rebay-Salisbury By Lizzie WadeSep. 25, 2019 , 1:00 PM For decades, archaeologists weren’t sure what to make of peculiar clay vessels that kept turning…
San Francisco: Chipset making giant Qualcomm has resumed trade with Chinese tech giant Huawei and is reportedly planning to secure a long-term supply deal with…
New York: Researchers have developed two new applications of eye-tracking technology which could help make driving safer. “Prior to a crash, drivers can be easily…
As permafrost thaws, riverbanks in Alaska are slumping, releasing long-sequestered carbon. DESIGN PICS INC/NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC CREATIVE By Paul VoosenSep. 25, 2019 , 5:00 AM Water,…
Scott Egan, Kelly Weinersmith, Sean Liu, Ryan Ridenbaugh, Y. Miles Zhang, Andrew Forbes/Wikimedia Commons (CC BY) By Eva FrederickSep. 24, 2019 , 7:01 PM There…
LightField Studios/sutterstock.com By Eva FrederickSep. 24, 2019 , 7:01 PM Whether you see red, feel blue, or go green with envy may depend on what…
The impact crater in Khan Shaykhun, Syria, believed to be the source of the sarin that killed more than 80 people. OMAR HAJ KADOUR/AFP/Getty Images…
Facebook employees work to reduce the spread of misinformation that could influence elections. NOAH BERGER/AFP/Getty Images By Jeffrey MervisSep. 24, 2019 , 4:50 PM Gary…
Rualdo Menegat By Sid PerkinsSep. 24, 2019 , 1:20 PM Archaeologists and architects alike have long wondered why 15th century Incans built the grand citadel…
Google researchers in Santa Barbara say their advance may lead to near-term applications of quantum computers. iStock.com/JHVEPhoto By Adrian ChoSep. 23, 2019 , 5:27 PM…
Monterey Bay Aquarium By Eva FrederickSep. 23, 2019 , 4:25 PM Stranded or orphaned baby sea otters have been given a new lease on life—and…
Representative Mark Takano (D–CA) says, “Intellectual property rights should not be able to trump due process.” AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite By Catherine MatacicSep. 23, 2019…
By Paul VoosenSep. 23, 2019 , 2:15 PM NASA is moving forward with plans to launch an infrared telescope that could detect asteroids on a…
New Delhi: Changing the details of your Voter ID is now literally available at the tip of your finger. The Election Commission’s Voter App has…
San Francisco: Facebook-owned instant messaging app WhatsApp has begun rolling out a feature for Android users to let them share their status stories directly on…
San Francisco: After rolling out iOS 13 for iPhones and watchOS 6 for Apple Watch Series, the iPhone maker is expected to unfold iOS 13.1…
New Delhi: Google Maps may soon have an “Incognito Mode” for better privacy on your location data. The “Incognito Mode” in Google Maps is currently…
Twitter on Friday announced that it has closed thousands of fake accounts which it said were operated exclusively from the United Arab Emirates (UAE), employing…
Graduate students at Columbia University went on strike in 2018 after the university refused to recognize their union. AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews By Katie LanginSep. 20,…
LEFT TO RIGHT: NASA; Benedetto Cristofani/Salzmanart; PeopleImages/iStockPhoto By Eva FrederickSep. 20, 2019 , 2:10 PM This sulfur-spewing Russian volcano is turning sunsets purple Sunrise and…
New Delhi: Chinese smartphone manufacturer vivo on Friday launched its new smartphone ‘Vivo V17 Pro’ with dual-selfie pop-up camera in India at Rs 29,990. The…
San Francisco: After rolling out iOS 13 for iPhones and watchOS 6 for Apple Watch Series, the iPhone maker is expected to unfold iOS 13.1…
Jeffrey Epstein (left) and artificial intelligence pioneer Marvin Minsky (right), whom Epstein viewed as a trusted scientific adviser Rick Friedman/Corbis via Getty Images By Jeffrey MervisSep.…
Andrew Wheeler, acting administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Cliff Owen/AP photo By Sean Reilly, E&E NewsSep. 19, 2019 , 2:35 PM Originally published…
On this week’s show, science journalist Josh Sokol talks about a global cooling event sparked by space dust that lead to a huge shift in…
An Indian paramilitary trooper stands guard in the city of Rinagar, in Indian-administered Kashmir. Yawar Nazir/ Getty Images By Sanjay KumarSep. 19, 2019 , 2:20 PM…
Shorebirds such as sanderlings may be dwindling because of habitat loss. TIM GRAHAM/GETTY IMAGES By Elizabeth PennisiSep. 19, 2019 , 2:00 PM North America’s birds…
Some strains of Klebsiella pneumoniae in the gut can turn starchy and sugary foods into alcohol. Ami Images/Science Source By Jon CohenSep. 19, 2019 ,…
This artist’s reconstruction, based on anatomical estimates from a new method, shows the face of a Denisovan girl from Siberia in Russia. MAAYAN HAREL By…
By Robert F. ServiceSep. 19, 2019 , 9:45 AM Black, gooey, greasy oil is the starting material for more than just transportation fuel. It’s also…
New Delhi: Chinese handset maker Realme and South Korean major Samsung have the lowest return rates among all smartphone brands in India, a survey by…
New Delhi: Search engine giant Google on Thursday said that it is adding more Indian languages to its other products Google is expanding Discover –the…
New Delhi: Search engine giant Google on Thursday said that it will set up an AI (Artificial Intelligence) research lab in Bengaluru. Speaking at the…
New Delhi: The number of telephone subscribers in India increased 0.22 percent to 1,189.28 million at the end of July 2019, a Telecom Regulatory Authority…
San Francisco: Photo-messaging app Snapchat has announced a new 3D Camera Mode that will let users make and share images with diorama-like depth effects. The…
San Francisco: Facebook has expanded its Portal family of home video-calling devices with three new models: Portal, Portal Mini and Portal TV. Facebook has added…
[embedded content] By Eva FrederickSep. 18, 2019 , 3:00 PM Good news for small, helpless robots who long to be a part of something bigger:…
FABIEN ASTRE/BARCROFT IMAGES/BARCROFT MEDIA VIA GETTY IMAGES By Richard A. LovettSep. 18, 2019 , 3:00 PM It may seem like an obvious argument: Undeveloped lands,…
An asteroid collision 466 million years ago created meteorites that still fall to Earth. NASA/JPL-CALTECH By Joshua SokoloskiSep. 18, 2019 , 2:00 PM Faced with…
The aftermath of an El Niño event in Peru in 2017 ERNESTO BENAVIDES/AFP/Getty Images By Warren CornwallSep. 18, 2019 , 1:30 PM The dreaded El…
iStock.com/uschools By Jocelyn KaiserSep. 18, 2019 , 12:15 PM A Senate spending panel today released a draft 2020 spending bill containing a hefty $3 billion…
Andrew Martinez/Science Source By Eva FrederickSep. 18, 2019 , 11:10 AM Sea urchins’ spines aren’t the only sharp part of their prickly bodies. The sea…
New Delhi: The Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship has joined hands with IBM have to train 10,000 faculty members from ITIs across India. The…
New Delhi: Sony India has expanded its Alpha 7R series full-frame mirrorless camera line-up by launching the Alpha 7R IV. The new Alpha 7R IV…
Gurugram: Targeting millennials and the Gen Z population ahead of the Dussehra and Diwali shopping spree, Samsung on Wednesday launched two new Galaxy M smartphones…
New Delhi: Heating up the Artificial Intelligence (AI) chipset space, Huawei Consumer Business Group on Tuesday announced its flagship Kirin 990 System on Chip (SoC)…
London: Challenging the 2016 European Union order to pay 13 million euros ($14.3 billion) in taxes, Apple on Tuesday told the EU General Court in…
San Francisco: In a bid to boost workplace productivity, Oracle and Microsoft have expanded Cloud partnership in which the integration of Oracle Digital Assistant with…
Genetically modified mosquitoes, such as these being released in Brazil, could combat infectious diseases. Paulo Friedman By Kelly ServickSep. 17, 2019 , 4:50 PM For…
A novel drug may prevent red blood cells from assuming a mutant, sickled shape. Gopal Murti/Science Source By Meredith WadmanSep. 17, 2019 , 4:25 PM…
In 2017, a marine heat wave bleached this coral reef in Hawaii’s Hanauma Bay. Now, officials are bracing for a new bleaching event driven by…
Taipei: Days after posting a revenue increase of 67 per cent, Taiwanese handset maker HTC is mulling to make a comeback with new 4G smartphones…
New Delhi: Lenovo, the worlds top personal computer maker, on Tuesday launched the new generation of Artificial Intelligence (AI)-enabled ThinkPad and ThinkCentre PCs for enterprises…
Amsterdam: Aimed at video creators and publishers, Facebook has announced some new features to its video capabilities and now publishers will have more tools to…
New Delhi: Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has released a consultation paper on ‘Duration of alert for the called party’, seeking views by stakeholders…
New Delhi: Reliance Jio was the fastest telecom network in August, registering average download speed of 21.3 megabit per second on its network, an improvement…
New Delhi: Apple’s subscription-based gaming service Arcade is available now in iOS 13 public beta — three days before its official launch on September 19,…
New Delhi: Mahindra Group Chairman Anand Mahindra has shared a photograph of the Manhattan cityscape in low light and claimed his Google Pixel captured better…
DAVIDE BONAZZI/SALZMAN ART By Jeffrey BrainardSep. 16, 2019 , 4:40 PM In the push to make the scientific literature open access, small scientific societies have…
Oly Ilunga Kalenga (with white hat), former Democratic Republic of the Congo health minister, in May 2017 visited remote villages near Likati then suffering from an…
KATRIN By Adrian ChoSep. 16, 2019 , 4:25 PM Physicists have set a new limit on the mass of nature’s lightest particle of matter. The…
PeopleImages/iStockPhoto By Eva FrederickSep. 16, 2019 , 3:40 PM Scientists have long known that humans are built for endurance, with our shock-absorbing joints and springy…
President Donald Trump wants more precise data on those residents—adult citizens—who are eligible to vote. Drew Angerer/Getty Images By Jeffrey MervisSep. 16, 2019 , 12:50…
New Delhi: PM Narendra Modi will be addressing a community event in Houston on September 22 for which he has sought thoughts and ideas from…
New Delhi: A day ahead of his birthday, a fresh new version of Narendra Modi app was launched on Monday. This is the first update…
New Delhi: Union Minister for Communications, Electronics & Information Technology Ravi Shankar Prasad has launched web portal for reporting of stolen mobiles. The government website…
New Delhi: Motorola expanded its affordable range of smartphones by launching the Moto E6s in India on Monday. The “Made in India’ phone has been…
San Francisco: Microsoft may launch a 15-inch Surface Laptop 3 next month alongside a 13.5-inch model, which is the same screen size as the Surface…
Beijing: OnePlus 7T and 7T Pro — likely to go official on September 26 alongside the OnePlus TV — will be launched on October 10…
By Jennifer Couzin-FrankelSep. 13, 2019 , 5:15 PM After eight hours of contentious discussion, an advisory committee to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)…
(left to right): T. APPENZELLER/SCIENCE; Tom Bouyer/Expedition 5300; ISTOCK.COM/ANTAGAIN By Eva FrederickSep. 13, 2019 , 2:40 PM Global warming has made iconic Andean peak unrecognizable…
A simulation of the undulating black hole formed by the merger of two smaller black holes. SXS, the Simulating eXtreme Spacetimes (SXS) project By Adrian…
NASA By Alex FoxSep. 13, 2019 , 1:25 PM Sunrise and sunset chasers discovered something odd this summer: In rural Colorado and the rest of…
New Delhi: Chinese smartphone manufacturer Realme on Friday launched its first smartphone with 64MP camera – Realme XT- in India. The phone comes in three…
San Francisco: Microsoft has released an update to fix the CPU spiking search problem picked up by Windows latest KB4515384 update which was causing issues…
New Delhi: JioTV on Friday said that it will be offering free access to LIVE matches during the upcoming India-South Africa series beginning 15 September.…
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday sought Centre’s status on framing regulations for linking social media accounts with Aadhaar by September 24. The Supreme…
Paris: Google will pay almost one billion euros to France to close a fiscal dispute over alleged corporate tax fraud recorded between 2011 and 2014.…
Tambako The Jaguar/Flickr In La Rinconada, Peru, a town 5100 meters up in the Peruvian Andes, residents get by breathing air with 50% less oxygen…
White-crowned sparrows stop eating after they ingest small amounts of neonicotinoid pesticides. Margaret Eng By Elizabeth PennisiSep. 12, 2019 , 2:00 PM When birds migrate,…
Peekaboo: Rats enjoy playing hide-and-seek with researchers. ISTOCK.COM/ANTAGAIN By Emily UnderwoodSep. 12, 2019 , 2:00 PM Every child knows that a proper game of hide-and-seek…
By Warren CornwallSep. 12, 2019 , 2:00 PM In late 2016, scientists aboard the U.K. research ship James Cook arrived 500 kilometers off the coast of northwest…
BORN IN A VILLAGE on Peru’s lofty altiplano, Sucasaire first traveled here in 1995, at age 17, in search of a job. Since then, he…
Aaswath Raman By Robert F. ServiceSep. 12, 2019 , 1:45 PM Solar panels are great for powering devices during the day. But they don’t work…
iStock.com/Richardwlh By Alex FoxSep. 12, 2019 , 12:00 PM Rub a balloon on your head, and your hair will stand on end. Nearly everyone has…
Synthetic diamonds (center), grown with defects to trap electrons, offer a natural environment to test the theory of quantum Darwinism. THOMAS UNDEN By Adrian ChoSep.…
By Scott Waldman, E&E NewsSep. 12, 2019 , 11:05 AM Originally published by E&E News When William Happer realized this summer that his plan to…
Carol and Mike Werner/Science Source By Emily UnderwoodSep. 12, 2019 , 11:00 AM Adrenaline. The word is synonymous with any activity that gets our blood…
By Kelly ServickSep. 12, 2019 , 10:35 AM In 1998, Gustavo Ayala, a young pathologist, landed at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas, ready…
San Francisco: Google has started rolling out the dark mode for its Gmail app Android, over a week after the release of Android 10. The…
Bengaluru: E-commerce major Flipkart on Wednesday announced that the company would kick off a six-day journey this year with ‘the Big Billion Days’ sale from…
San Francisco: The upcoming Google Pixel smartphones, Pixel 4 and 4 XL, might launch on October 15, according to a promotional image of the device…
By Tim AppenzellerSep. 11, 2019 , 4:15 PM On 23 June 1802, German geographer Alexander von Humboldt and his companions could climb no higher. Plagued…
Ten experimental cancer drugs killed cancer cells even when their intended target protein was missing, suggesting the drugs work by some unknown mechanism. Anne Weston,…
Mark Airs/Getty Images By Giorgia GuglielmiSep. 11, 2019 , 2:00 PM The rate at which scientists in Italy cite themselves and their compatriots is rising…
Some 5000 optical fibers will robotically twist into place to catch the light of specific galaxies. © 2010 REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA/LAWRENCE BERKELEY…
The atmosphere of K2-18b, twice the size of Earth, could contain rain clouds (artist’s impression). ESA/Hubble/M. Kornmesser By Daniel ClerySep. 11, 2019 , 1:00 PM…
Bulgarian politician Mariya Gabriel has been named as the European commissioner to oversee research in a sprawling portfolio. Mauro Bottaro/European Union By Tania RabesandratanaSep. 11,…
Mamoru Takata By Eva FrederickSep. 11, 2019 , 11:00 AM What’s the difference between a suburban parent and a burying beetle? When the beetle wants…
Babak Javid (right) of Tsinghua University in Beijing and his former student Junhao Zhu (left), now a postdoc at Harvard University Rongjun Cai and Babak Javid By…
New Delhi: Search giant Google has rolled out a new feature for G Suite users, enabling them to see their word count as they type…
New Delhi: Refreshing its A-series in India, Chinese handset maker Oppo launched A9 2020 and OPPO A5 2020 at a starting price of Rs 16,990…
New Delhi: South Korean tech giant Samsung on Wednesday launched two new smartphones Galaxy A50s and Galaxy A30s with triple camera system in India. The…
New Delhi: In a direct challenge to JioFiber, telecom major Bharti Airtel on Wednesday launched its ultra-fast broadband offering, Airtel Xstream Fibre, at Rs 3,999.…
New Delhi: Apple has reduced the prices of a host of iPhones in India after launching new iPhone models. These iPhones range from iPhone 7,…
Cupertino: Giving its content streaming and gaming dreams a solid foundation, Apple on Tuesday began its mega event at the Steve Jobs Theater here not…
Cupertino: Learning its lessons from the success of iPhone XR in India, Apple has done the right thing by launching iPhone 11 at a reasonable…
Cupertino: Apple has announced India pricing of newly-launched iPhones — available in the country from September 27 — and the starting iPhone 11 model (64GB)…
Cupertino: With over 1.4 billion active installed base of devices globally and millions in India – iPhones, iPads, Apple TV, Macs, iPod touch and more…
CUPERTINO: Apple Inc revealed on Tuesday that its new iPhone 11 will come with two back cameras, including an ultra-wide-angle lens and the next generation…
Jennifer Taylor By David ShultzSep. 10, 2019 , 7:01 PM Aside from Disney’s Sebastian and Tamatoa, crabs aren’t known for their acoustic skills. The ghost…
iStock.com/ unoL By David GrimmSep. 10, 2019 , 6:00 PM The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in Washington, D.C., announced today that it will stop conducting…
DAVIDE BONAZZI/SALZMAN ART By Jeffrey BrainardSep. 10, 2019 , 5:15 PM When PLOS ONE debuted in 2006, its founders declared it would transform scientific publishing.…
Fewer than 800 Tapanuli orangutans are left in the Batang Toru ecosystem in Indonesia. Andrew Walmsley/MINDEN PICTURES By Dyna Rochmyaningsih Sep. 10, 2019 , 3:45…
Scottish physiologist John Speakman (left) runs a laboratory in Beijing while maintaining his affiliation with the United Kingdom’s University of Aberdeen, where he also has…
CUPERTINO: Apple on Tuesday launched Apple Watch Series 5, debuting an “Always-On Retina” display, several new health features and international emergency calling that allows customers…
Apple Inc on Tuesday launched a new streaming TV service, which will showcase original shows at a monthly price of $4.99. At an event held…
L. Sousa By Eva FrederickSep. 10, 2019 , 11:10 AM Scientists have long assumed there was only one species of electric eel. (After all, who…
San Francisco/New Delhi: Apple is expected to unveil lineup of new iPhone models on Tuesday with media reports claiming that the tech giant will also…
Berlin: Huawei has launched the FreeBuds 3 truly wireless earbuds. Loaded with a new audio strategy, the earbuds are also powered by a new intelligent…
New Delhi: It is that time of the year again! Apple fans worldwide would get to see a host of product launches ranging from next…
San Jose: Every once in a while, a revolutionary product comes along that changes everything, said late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs once. In his keynote…
mdesigner125/iStock.com By Alex FoxSep. 9, 2019 , 6:40 PM Jagged streaks of lightning ripping across the sky are common to summer storms all over the…
Andrew Warren By Stephenie LivingstonSep. 9, 2019 , 4:15 PM Some scientific battles are epic: Think Nikola Tesla and Thomas Edison’s war of currents. Others…
Divers found only a torn cable where a research station had been in the Baltic Sea. Research Diving Center CAU By Gretchen VogelSep. 9, 2019 ,…
New Delhi: South Korean tech giant Samsung on Monday introduced two new solutions — Good Vibes and Relumino – that will provide the deaf-blind with…
Hyderabad: Microsoft on Monday announced the appointment of Rajiv Kumar as the managing director of Microsoft India (R&D) Pvt Ltd (MIRPL). Currently, he is the…
New Delhi: The most-anticipated event in the world of technology is right around the corner and Apple fans worldwide on Tuesday would witness the next…
The Vikram lander was supposed to release a briefcase-size rover from its belly. ISRO By Sanjay KumarSep. 7, 2019 , 6:49 AM India’s attempt to…
The Vikram lander was supposed to release a briefcase-size rover from its belly. ISRO By Sanjay KumarSep. 7, 2019 , 6:49 AM India’s attempt to…
An image of India’s Chandrayaan-2 lander broadcast today by India’s space agency INDIAN SPACE RESEARCH ORGANISATION By Science News StaffSep. 6, 2019 , 4:50 PM Mission…
(left to right): JPA1999/ISTOCK.COM; BRENT WOODFILL; CHRIS AND MONIQUE FALLOWS/MINDEN PICTURES By Eva FrederickSep. 6, 2019 , 3:05 PM Study challenges idea that autism is…
About 140 million years ago, Greater Adria—which later got shoved beneath southern Europe—was a Greenland-size landmass (submerged portions in gray-green) south of the continent. van Hinsbergen…
Bumblebees are expected to benefit from Germany’s insect protection efforts. NABU/Helge May By Gretchen VogelSep. 6, 2019 , 12:10 PM BERLIN—Save the whales, sure. But…
Berlin: Artificial Intelligence (AI), 5G and Internet of Things (IoT) will be the key technology trends at IFA, one of the leading shows for home…
San Francisco: Earlier, a leak on Google’s upcoming Pixel 4 and 4XL smartphones suggested that the devices could include a super smooth display with 90Hz…
New Delhi: Smart engine giant Google has launched the Assistant Ambient Mode for Android phones and tablets at IFA 2019 Berlin. “Google Assistant’s Ambient Mode…
San Francisco: Facebook on Thursday launched its Dating feature in the US where users can choose to opt into Facebook Dating and create a dating…
Bengaluru: Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi on Friday announced that it has shipped over 10 crore smartphones in India in the last five years. “It’s a…
New Delhi: Reliance Jio, has commercially launched the Fiber to the Home service –JioFiber across 1,600 cities in India. The average fixed-line broadband speed of…
Lizzie Wade/Science This week’s show starts with Contributing Correspondent Lizzie Wade, who spent 12 days with archaeologists searching for a lost Maya city in the…