Washington,  Inspired by the nanostructures found on moth eyes, scientists have developed a new anti- reflection film that could allow people to read from their smartphones and tablets even in bright sunlight. The film exhibits a surface reflection of just 0.23 per cent, much lower than the iPhone’s surface reflectionRead More

NEW YORK: With an aim to empower its creator community, Facebook has announced that it is planning to launch a new app just for them later this year. The essentially a video creation app will be made just for its star broadcasters, who are also the same folks who areRead More

WASHINGTON: Scientists have developed a novel design approach for exoskeletons and prosthetic limbs that incorporates direct feedback from the human body. The approach will dramatically improve energy economy, speed and balance for millions of people, especially those with disabilities, researchers said. The technique, called human-in-the-loop optimisation, customises walking assistance forRead More

Washington DC It’s now hard to imagine a life without selfies! Thanks to front-facing cameras and the rise of social media, selfies populate our camera rolls, Instagram feeds, dating profiles, and vocabularies. To better understand the photographic phenomenon and how people form their identities online, Georgia Institute of Technology researchersRead More

London, June 22 Being married makes men gain weight, and the early days of fatherhood may lead to further pile up of extra kilos, a study has found. The study shows that married men have a higher Body Mass Index (BMI) than their non-married counterparts, adding about 1.4 kilogrammes toRead More

Los Angeles Facebook has introduced new tools in India that will allow users to protect their profile pictures from being downloaded and shared, a move that may help reduce misuse of images on the popular social networking site. Profile pictures are an important part of building community on Facebook becauseRead More

New York, June 20 People are more likely to perceive familiar faces to be happier than those of strangers, even when both express the same emotions, a study suggests. Familiarity–just having ‘expertise’ with someone else’s face through repeated exposure–affects the happiness you perceive in subsequent facial expressions from that person,Read More

Washington, June 20 NASA’s Kepler space telescope has spotted 219 new potential planets, of which at least 10 are near-Earth size with conditions suitable to host life. This brings the total number of planet candidates identified by Kepler to 4,034, of which 2,335 have been verified as exoplanets. Out ofRead More

Washington In a first, a group in the US state of Colorado has sought a ban on the sale of smartphones for children younger than 13 years to prevent them from getting addicted to the device. Tim Fasrnum, founder of the non-profit group Parents Against Underage Smartphones (PAUS) and fatherRead More

Washington In a first, scientists have developed an artificial intelligence robot that can create its own music inspired by the works of musicians like Beethoven and Lady Gaga. The robot with four arms and eight sticks writes and plays its own compositions on a marimba, using a database of well-knownRead More