Ancient snakes both like eels, burrowed like worms
Ancient snakes may have been more adept at moving through water and living underground than their contemporary counterparts.
Aug 23, 2017, 13:02 PM IST
Artificial Intelligence creates ripples inside newsroom, are media jobs at stake?
The presence of AI has been reflecting in chatbots, automated reporting systems and machine learning techniques which are sifting through massive data sets to write initial news reports.
Aug 23, 2017, 12:37 PM IST
Robot makers slow to address danger risk, say researchers
Researchers who warned half a dozen robot manufacturers in January about nearly 50 vulnerabilities in their home, business and industrial robots, say only a few of the problems have been addressed.
Aug 23, 2017, 10:50 AM IST
Do you have a clue about the weather on Mars? This is how it is
Up to now, it was thought that snow falling from low-lying Martian clouds settled slowly and sparsely to the ground in a environment bereft of violent winds.
Aug 23, 2017, 10:37 AM IST
Yellowstone Supervolcano threat looms over humankind, NASA vouches to protect us
NASA is planning to acts as a saviour and save mankind from the alarming threat from the volcano, that resides in one of the most beautiful places the world, Yellowstone National Park.
Aug 21, 2017, 20:56 PM IST
Do you know this country just created the world's smallest surgical robot?
The robot, called Versius, mimics the human arm and can be used to carry out a wide range of procedures in which a series of small incisions are made to circumvent the need for traditional open surgery.
Aug 20, 2017, 20:32 PM IST
Scientists discover new state of matter to explain superconductivity
Superconductivity is extensively used in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), particle accelerators, magnetic fusion devices, and microwave filters.
Aug 20, 2017, 18:16 PM IST
Scientists develop new artificial intelligence system to decode brain signals
Artificial intelligence has far outpaced human intelligence in certain tasks.
Aug 20, 2017, 16:01 PM IST
First 3D movie of virus in action created
Scientists at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in the US developed a new generation of powerful algorithms to reconstruct sequential images from an ocean of unsorted, noisy data.
Aug 15, 2017, 17:53 PM IST
Deep sleep may reinforce new motor skills
Researchers at University of California San Francisco in the US found that during non-rapid eye movement (REM) sleep, slow brain waves bolster neural touch points that are directly related to a task that was newly learned while awake, while weakening neural links that are not.
Aug 14, 2017, 18:56 PM IST
Would you like to take a bite of this 107-year-old 'perfectly edible' fruitcake found in Antarctica?
The surprising part is that even after so much time, the fruitcake looks good enough to consume and has stood up perfectly for over 100 years.
Aug 14, 2017, 17:16 PM IST
Inflatable speedboats may provide smooth rides in rough waters
Researchers at Utah State University (USU) in the US have for the first time demonstrated the unique differences in water impact behaviour of rigid and elastic bodies.
Aug 14, 2017, 12:41 PM IST
New 'smart' windows go from clear to dark in one minute
Smart windows already being sold, such as those used on airlines, are made of materials, such as tungsten oxide, that change colour when charged with electricity.
Aug 10, 2017, 16:51 PM IST
Humans arrived in Southeast Asia 20,000 years earlier: Study
The dating of a cave site in West Sumatra in Indonesia, called Lida Ajer, provided researchers the first evidence for rainforest use of modern humans.
Aug 10, 2017, 12:50 PM IST
Humans arrived in Southeast Asia 20,000 years earlier: Study
The dating of a cave site in West Sumatra in Indonesia, called Lida Ajer, provided researchers the first evidence for rainforest use of modern humans.
Aug 10, 2017, 12:50 PM IST
Scientists break record, develop fastest ever light pulse!
The new light reaches an important spectral region, the so called "water window," where carbon atoms absorb strongly but water does not.
Aug 08, 2017, 17:36 PM IST
New graphene electronic tattoos can be applied with water
The new tattoos are made of graphene that is coated with an ultrathin backing layer of transparent polymer poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA).
Aug 08, 2017, 13:04 PM IST
New artificial intelligence system can monitor your sleep with radio waves
As the radio waves reflect off of the body, any slight movement of the body alters the frequency of the reflected waves.
Aug 07, 2017, 21:16 PM IST
Competition over mammoth meat may have wiped out Neanderthals
The first representatives of Homo sapiens colonised Europe around 43,000 years ago, replacing the Neanderthals there approximately 3,000 years later.
Aug 06, 2017, 19:07 PM IST
Most accurate measurement of elusive dark matter made
Most notably, the result supports the theory that 26 percent of the universe is in the form of mysterious dark matter and that space is filled with an also-unseen dark energy, which is causing the accelerating expansion of the universe and makes up 70 percent.
Aug 04, 2017, 17:30 PM IST
