Washington, October 23 Scientists have developed a smartwatch that works in multiple dimensions and allows users to see and feel virtual objects while watching videos or playing games. “Understanding and improving how humans interact with computers are essential parts of technology development,” said Xing-Dong Yang, assistant professor at Dartmouth CollegeRead More

London, October 23 Mars has nearly ideal conditions for efficiently creating oxygen from atmospheric carbon dioxide in the future using plasma technology, a study has found. According to researchers from University of Porto in Portugal and Ecole Polytechnique in Paris, Mars has 96 per cent carbon dioxide (CO2) in itsRead More

New York: Leading Chinese mobile devices provider ZTE has launched a dual-screen foldable smartphone in the US, marking another milestone for the company. The latest flagship device, named Axon M, features two 5.2-inch screens that can be folded to the size of a traditional smartphone, Xinhua reported. The phone hasRead More

Washington Scientists using data from NASA’s Cassini mission to Saturn have found evidence of a toxic hybrid ice in a wispy cloud high above the south pole of ringed planet’s largest moon, Titan. The finding is a new demonstration of the complex chemistry occurring in Titan’s atmosphere — in thisRead More

Washington NASA has approved a second extension of the Dawn mission at Ceres, allowing the spacecraft to get a closer look at the largest object in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. During this extension, the spacecraft will descend to lower altitudes than ever before at the dwarf planet,Read More

San Francisco, Facebook has acquired ‘tbh’, an anonymous polling app for teenagers which has over 5 million downloads and 2.5 million daily active users in the US. The app lets teenagers anonymously answer kind-hearted, multiple-choice questions about friends, who then receive the poll results as compliments, TechCrunch reported on Tuesday. “WhenRead More

London,  London, October 17Posts on Twitter and Instagram often promote “bonespiration” and “thinspiration” – women’s bodies featuring protruding bones and pencil-thin limbs – which encourage eating disorders such as anorexia, a study warns.Researchers from University of Exeter in the UK show that among thousands of account holders on social media,Read More

London Whales and dolphins live in tightly-knit social groups, have complex relationships, talk to each other and even have regional dialects, much like human societies, according to a study. The findings revealed that these intelligent creatures (also called Cetaceans) have sophisticated social and cooperative behaviour traits, such as regional groupRead More

San Francisco, October 16 With a rise in smartphone ownership globally, China will have highest number of smartphone users, 1.3 billion, in 2018, followed by India with 530 million users. The US will be a distant third, with 229 million users. According to a new study by US-based media agencyRead More

GENEVA: Women tend to be more generous than men, as selfish behaviour activates the brains reward system more strongly in men, scientists have found. Scientists from University of Zurich in Switzerland looked at the areas of the brain that are active when decisions of this kind are made. The striatum,Read More