London Hacking networks like Anonymous are perceived as modern-day equivalents of Robin Hood, especially by people who feel more angry about societal injustices and disconnected from the political process, a study has found. Giovanni Travaglino a psychologist at the University of Kent in the UK carried out two studies toRead More

London, September 6 Insects have much better vision and can see in far greater detail by generating images of higher resolution than previously thought, scientists say. It has been long believed that insects cannot see fine images. This is because their compound eyes typically consist of thousands of tiny lens-cappedRead More

Boston, September 5 Facial recognition is not an innate ability, but a skill that forms through experience, a study in monkeys has found. Working with macaques temporarily deprived of seeing faces while growing up, the researchers from the Harvard Medical School in the US has found that regions of theRead More

New Delhi, September 5 Scientists have developed an artificial leaf that absorbs sunlight to generate hydrogen fuel from water, an advance that may provide clean energy for powering eco-friendly cars in the future. The ultra-thin wireless device mimics plant leaves to produce energy using water and sunlight. “It is knownRead More

London, September 4 An Indian-origin scientist has led a team at a UK university to create a medical camera that can see through the human body, and he believes it has immense potential for doctors in tracking internal examinations. Kev Dhaliwal, Professor of Molecular Imaging and Healthcare Technology at theRead More

London As many 24 stars are headed towards our solar system and may deflect comets, causing them to collide into the Earth in the next million years, scientists say. Researchers at Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Germany calculated how often stars stray into the Oort cloud, a vast, sphericalRead More

London Scientists have discovered human-like footprints from Greece’s largest island Crete — dating back to 5.7 million years — that may put the established theories of early human evolution to the test. Ever since the discovery of fossils of Australopithecus in South and East Africa during the middle years ofRead More

Washington With water getting warmer, carbon dioxide level rising and bleaching events becoming more frequent, a team of Australian researchers has issued advice that more research is urgently required to determine whether corals can acclimatise and adapt to the rapid pace of climate change. The researchers from ARC Centre ofRead More

Washington, September 1 What is yawning? Why is it so contagious? Experts at the University of Nottingham have published research that suggests the human propensity for contagious yawning is triggered automatically by primitive reflexes in the primary motor cortex — an area of the brain responsible for motor function. TheirRead More

London An extreme global warming event 56 million years ago was driven by massive carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from volcanoes, during the formation of the North Atlantic Ocean, a study suggests. Researchers from the University of Southampton in the UK used a combination of new geochemical measurements and novel globalRead More