Washington You may soon be able to read from your smartphone even under bright sunlight, thanks to ‘invisible glass’ developed by scientists — including those from India — that reflects almost no light. Most of today’s electronics devices are equipped with glass or plastic covers for protection against dust, moisture,Read More

SAN FRANCISCO: A security researcher has discovered bugs in Google’s platform that deals with bugs and unpatched vulnerabilities, leading him to gain access to the company’s sensitive internal systems. According to a report in Motherboard in Wednesday, Alex Birsan found vulnerabilities inside the Google Issue Tracker — used internally toRead More

Washington NASA said its Mars 2020 mission would have more “eyes” than any rover before it — a grand total of 23, to create sweeping panoramas, reveal obstacles, study the atmosphere and assist science instruments. They will provide dramatic views during the rover’s descent to Mars and be the firstRead More

Washington: Apple will let you unlock the iPhone X with your face — a move likely to bring facial recognition to the masses, along with concerns over how the technology may be used for nefarious purposes. Apple’s newest device, set to go on sale November 3, is designed to beRead More

London, October 30 Cambridge University researchers have pinpointed the date of what could be the oldest solar eclipse yet recorded. The event, which occurred on October 30, 1207 BC, is mentioned in the Bible, and could help historians to date Egyptian pharaohs. “Solar eclipses are often used as a fixedRead More

Toronto Researchers have decoded why we are often better at working through other people’s problems than our own, whether it is a romantic issue or tension at work. While we may approach our friends’ problems with wise, clear-eyed objectivity, we often view our own problems through a personal, flawed, emotionalRead More

Boston Scientists have developed a novel smartphone-based portable ultrasound machine that can help detect cancer easily at home. The machine called Butterfly IQ is a pocket-sized ultrasound device that is the size and shape of an electric razor. Researchers from Butterfly Network, a US based start up, developed the deviceRead More

Washington, October 29 Apple will let you unlock the iPhone X with your face — a move likely to bring facial recognition to the masses, along with concerns over how the technology may be used for nefarious purposes. Apple’s newest device, set to go on sale November 3, is designedRead More

London, October 29 Small amounts of boiling water causes sand on Mars to ‘levitate’ and move around, according to a study that could solve the mystery of how features such as large dune flows and gullies are formed on the red planet. Experiments carried out in a simulation chamber thatRead More

Washington NASA’s Dawn mission to Ceres has found the evidence of residual liquid left over from an ancient global ocean on the dwarf planet. The researchers found that Ceres’ crust is a mixture of ice, salts and hydrated materials that were subjected to past and possibly recent geologic activity, andRead More