Science &amp; Technology

LONDON: Yale University scientists have answered a 40-year-old question about Arctic ice thickness by treating the ice floes of the...

New study shows that 8 trillion plastic Microbeads threaten for marine creature

BRENT: A new study shows that 8 trillion plastic Microbeads enter aquatic habitats in the United States each day, threatening...

Rare cloud formation shines like a pink jellyfish over Costa Rica

MEXICO: A rare cloud formation shone like a pink jellyfish over Costa Rica earlier this week wowing spectators. Luckily, some...

Arctic sea ice shrinks to 4th lowest level on record this month

HONG KONG: Sea ice “extent” measured at 1.7 million square miles is almost 700,000 square miles below the average reading...

Huge Nerds Build Beautiful Scale Model of Solar System in Nevada Desert

LONDON: This is the amazing scale model of the solar system which has been created in Nevada desert. It can...

Scientists build tiny invisibility cloak

LONDON: Scientists might be a step – a teeny tiny step – closer to developing that Harry Potter-style invisibility cloak...

Pre-reptile 1st to walk on all fours?

LONDON: It may be the earliest known creature to do so, according to a new study.Some 260 million years ago,...

Pentagon builds automated “scorecard” in coming years

LONDON: The U.S. Defense Department is building a massive, electronic system to provide an overview of the vulnerabilities of the...

Roll out of BBC micro:bit delayed until 2016

LONDON: The rollout of the BBC micro:bit –- the credit-card sized device aimed at educating 1,000,000 kids about coding and...

Twitter introduces new feature “Highlights” for Android users

NEW YORK: Highlights feature gives a summary of the most interesting things on your feed. Microblogging website Twitter has rolled...

Facebook introduces news finding tool for juornalists

PARIS: Facebook unveiled a new tool Thursday aimed at helping journalists using the social network track breaking and trending news,...

Apple customers report that devices crash while updating to iOS 9

LONDON: A significant number of Apple Inc customers are reporting their mobile devices have crashed after attempting to upload the...

Samsung Galaxy Core Prime VE lunched in India

NEW YORK: Samsung has launched a new value-edition variant of its Galaxy Core Prime smartphone in India. Priced at Rs....

Google releases update of its Slides app on Androd with useful features

CANADA: Google has released an update of its Slides app on Android with a couple of useful features. According to...

Your facebook posts say a lot about you, study

NEW YORK: Your Facebook posts say a lot about you or so, a new study from London’s Brunel University said....

Carbon emissions from exhausting coal, oil, & natural gas reserves can melt Antarctic ice sheet

HONG KONG: Keep it in the ground. That’s the rallying cry of environmentalists who warn that burning the world’s remaining...

Scientists answered 40-year-old question about Arctic ice thickness

LONDON: Yale University scientists have answered a 40-year-old question about Arctic ice thickness by treating the ice floes of the...

Scientist uses sound waves to control brain cells

WASHINGTON: In a first, an Indian American researcher from Salk Institute for Biological Studies in California has developed a new...

Global warming ‘hiatus’ never happened, research

LONDON: An apparent lull in the recent rate of global warming that has been widely accepted as fact is actually...

Researchers create ultrathin invisibility cloak