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

Washington, October 16 NASA believes a ninth planet does exist that might be 10 times the mass of Earth and 20 times farther from the Sun than Neptune, debunking myths that the planet, dubbed ‘Nibiru’ by doomsayers, will end of the world. Konstantin Batygin, a planetary astrophysicist at California InstituteRead More

Toronto, October 15 In what could bring an end to the endless thermostat wars at office, scientists have developed a system that can automatically optimise the indoor conditions including air quality, temperature and lighting according to each worker’s needs. No matter the season, thermostat wars rage in offices worldwide. EmployeesRead More

Washington NASA is developing technologies to counter space radiation — one of the biggest challenges for human journey to Mars — to ensure a safe and successful exploration of the red planet. “Some people think that radiation will keep NASA from sending people to Mars, but that is not theRead More

Washington Scientists have found possible evidence of a source of energy that could be responsible for heating the Sun’s atmosphere or corona. In the study published in the journal Nature Astronomy, the researchers used data from the FOXSI-2 sounding rocket — a rocket payload carrying seven telescopes designed to studyRead More

London: Twitter activity during football matches can help predict the result of the tie when combined with betting market prices, researchers have found. The tone of Twitter posts can predict when a team is more likely to win and soccer bets are mispriced, a study by the University of EastRead More