The universe really is weird, which is bad news both for Albert Einstein and for would-be hackers hoping to break into quantum encryption systems.Eighty years after the physicist dismissed as “spooky” the idea that simply observing one particle could instantly…
A diet of putrid rotting flesh may not be your cup of tea, but to the cinereous vulture, found across southern Europe and Asia, it is positively delightful. This tough bird, it turns out, is genetically wired to thrive on…
An ancient zircon crystal unearthed in Western Australia may hold evidence that life appeared on the planet 4.1 billion years ago, or about 300 million years earlier than previously thought, according to a team of US researchers.Scientists from Stanford University…
A new tool to assist developing countries in designing a “custom made” plant variety protection suitable for the seed and agricultural systems that prevail in developing countries has been published by an international group of NGOs. It was presented on…
Interesting new data on prices countries are paying on Hep C drugs was published yesterday in Lancet Global Health. The study shows strikingly, that some middle-income countries pay as much, if not more, than wealthy countries for hep C direct-acting…
Maybe we cannot blame late-night TV, endless Internet surfing, midnight snacks, good books, bothersome work deadlines and other distractions of modern life for encroaching on our sleep.Research unveiled on Thursday showed that people in isolated and technologically primitive African and…
A trove of 47 fossil human teeth from a cave in southern China is rewriting the history of the early migration of our species out of Africa, indicating Homo sapiens trekked into Asia far earlier than previously known and much…
They call themselves Hollywood’s best-kept secret: India’s animators, long-time partners for the likes of Walt Disney Co, are reaping the rewards of surging demand for visual effects and gaining the confidence to venture out on their own.India’s animation industry generated…
Researchers extracted DNA from a 4,500-year-old skull that was discovered in the highlands of Ethiopia.A comparison with genetic material from today’s Africans reveals how our ancient ancestors mixed and moved around the continents.The findings, published in the journal Science, suggests…
The 2015 Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded for discoveries in DNA repair. Tomas Lindahl and Paul Modrich and Aziz Sancar were named as the winners on Wednesday morning at a news conference in Stockholm, Sweden. Their work uncovered…
The blue whale is the largest creature on Earth and perhaps the biggest that ever lived, so it is no surprise it has a huge appetite. But the strategies this behemoth uses to get enough food has not been well…
Beneath London, a successful five-week experiment in reclaiming waste electricity could save millions of pounds each year — and make Tube riders a whole lot happier in the process.
Briny water flows during the summer months on Mars, raising the possibility that the planet long thought to be arid could support life today, scientists analyzing data from a NASA spacecraft said on Monday. Although the source and the chemistry…
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has hailed the political power of social media, as he visited the headquarters of Facebook in California. “To leaders all over the world: you are not going to gain by running away from social media,”…
People around the world are watching the skies to observe a rare celestial event, as a lunar eclipse coincides with a so-called “supermoon”. A supermoon occurs when the Moon is in the closest part of its orbit to Earth, meaning…
Neuroscientists from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have identified a brain circuit that processes the “when” and “where” components of memory. This circuit, which connects the hippocampus and a region of the brain known as entorhinal cortex, separates location…
Skype, Microsoft Corp’s online telephone and video service, said some users are unable to make calls on Monday because their settings show that they and their contacts are off line, even when they are logged in.
A cloak of invisibility may be common in science fiction but it is not so easy in the real world. New research suggests such a device may be moving closer to reality. Scientists said on Thursday they have successfully tested…
Mostafa Kamal Majumder People from any corner of Bangladesh now have cyber access to the world through smart phones or computers. They can make business deals, transactions, and know of well-beings of near and dear ones across continents by using…
Kazakhstan welcomed the world’s most experienced space flier and two rookie crewmates on Saturday, including Denmark’s first-ever astronaut, who returned from the International Space Station with a bull’s-eye parachute landing. The descent capsule departed the space station at 2139 GMT…
Europe came a step closer to setting up its own satellite navigation system after successfully launching two Galileo satellites from French Guyana on Friday. The European Space Agency’s Galileo project is meant as an EU alternative to the US Global…
By James Gallagher It is “essential” that the genetic modification of human embryos is allowed, says a group of scientists, ethicists and policy experts. A Hinxton Group report says editing the genetic code of early stage embryos is of “tremendous…
Apple Inc unveiled the iPhone 6S and 6S plus on Wednesday, the latest iteration of its lucrative smartphone that offers 3D touch, a display technology that responds differently depending on how hard users press their screens. The new phones, which…
By adding a more realistic sense of touch to its iPhone, Apple Inc may have conquered a technology that has long promised to take us beyond merely feeling the cold glass of our mobile device screens. In its latest iPhones,…
NASA is inviting space enthusiasts to send in their names that will go on the next mission to Red Planet and the deadline is Tuesday.In March, 2016, NASA will launch the InSight mission to Mars – a robotic, stationary lander…
The Siberian Chemical Plant (SCP), a subsidiary of Rosatom’s TVEL Fuel Company, has decommissioned a commercial uranium-graphite reactor for the first time in global history. Russia’s state-owned nuclear corporation has yet again proved that nuclear facilities can be operated and…
For the first time over a billion people used Facebook on a single day, according to company founder Mark Zuckerberg.
Neuroscientists, including an Indian-origin researcher from Johns Hopkins University, have pinpointed a part of the brain that helps you decipher memory from new experiences.In a supermarket, on board the Metro or at airport, you suddenly see a familiar face and…
Soaring worldwide demand for the minerals used in electronic devices such as smartphones and laptops has left a legacy of social conflict and human rights violations across Asia, Latin America and Africa A 200ft deep pit gapes where three years…
NASA has not confirmed what actually is the ‘woman-like’ figure in a Mars picture that has kept UFO and alien life enthusiasts hooked for the past few weeks, CNET reported.Over the past several weeks, UFO and alien life enthusiasts have…